A psychologist from Brazil who has been missing in Essex may have taken a boat from a boatyard, police investigating her disappearance have said.
The family of Vitoria Figueiredo Barreto, 30 have said they are worried for the academic's safety, after she has not been in contact since meeting a friend on 3 March.
Barreto was reported missing the next day and Essex Police have now said a person, believed to be Barreto, was seen on CCTV jumping over a fence into a boatyard just after midnight on 3 March.
Police said they were aware of a boat having been taken from its mooring in Brightlingsea, which has since been located "adrift in the water".
Barreto, a clinical psychologist from Fortaleza, had been at a conference in Morocco before arriving in the UK on 2 February.
