Missing X Factor star Levi Davis' mum speaks out after drowning theory emerges
The mum of missing X-Factor and rugby star Levi Davis has spoken out after a new drowning theory emerged.
The 25-year-old vanished on October 29 last year after travelling alone to Barcelona - with the last confirmed sighting in CCTV footage leaving a bar near the the city's thoroughfare.
Police have since told his mother Julie that four cruise ship workers saw someone in the water shouting for help in English, just hours later.
They were wearing a light-coloured T-shirt like the one Levi was seen in.
With the sighting estimated to have been at around 6.30am on October 30.
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A lifebuoy was thrown to him but a subsequent search by police and the coastguard found nothing.
Levi with his mum Julie (Family Handout)Julie, from Solihull, West Midlands, travelled to the Spanish city a week last Sunday to retrace her son's steps - with investigators confirming to her their belief Levi drowned.
She told The Sun: “Why is this information about the cruise ship staff only coming months later?
“I don’t know what to believe anymore."
She said she still has plenty of questions but has become disheartened by the lack of feedback from police.
The mum said she is often told answering her queries "will jeopardise the case".
Levi was last seen leaving the UK for Ibiza after suffering an injury (bbc.co.uk)
Levi during an appearance on 'Celebs Go Virtual Dating' (Beretta/Sims/REX/Shutterstock)She added: “The way the evidence is pointing isn’t good but without a body, there’s just no way of knowing what’s happened.”
Levi appeared on the X-Factor in 2019 as part of the group Try Star, while also playing rugby for Bath.
His sudden disappearance - after leaving friends to travel by boat from Ibiza to Barcelona - has led to several theories, with his mum believing he was being blackmailed.
Levi posted a video prior to going missing claiming he was a target after being snapped in "compromising positions".
Mum appeared 'completely normal' moments before vanishing while walking dog
CCTV footage of Levi Davis shows him leaving Barcelona pub (Mirror.co.uk)Spanish cops claimed in February, he had "not gone missing voluntarily" but then told Julie he had likely drowned.
Julie said Levi was recovering from a ligament injury and was feeling down when he travelled abroad to "clear his head".
After arriving at the port in Barcelona following a four-hour ferry ride he was seen leaving The Old Irish Pub on CCTV, with police saying there were subsequent sightings at the Hard Rock Cafe, a few minutes away.
An Instagram story emerged in February, posted four days before he disappeared, which saw the case take a sinister turn.
Police have said they believe Levi may have drowned (Bath Rugby/BPM Media)The video - saved by a friend - opened with: “My name is Levi Davis and my life is in danger.”
He then spent 15 minutes talking about being blackmailed by unknown people who had taken pictures of him in “compromising positions”, claiming his life and his family’s life were under threat.
Reports that Levi owed £100,000 also emerged in Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia.
Gavin Burrows, a private investigator helping the family, claimed Levi may have fled his flat two years ago to escape a Somali drug gang after accruing a “sizeable debt”.
Julie said she "won't ever give up hope".
She added: “I don’t want to believe it and I won’t believe it until the police say, ‘Here’s the body’.”
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