SEARCHES for missing Brit Levi Davis are still waiting to get the go-ahead, Spanish investigators have said, as the six-month anniversary of his disappearance approaches.
The 25-year-old X Factor contestant and talented rugby player was last seen leaving a pub in Barcelona and his mum says she was told by police that he has most likely drowned in the city’s port.
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Julie Davis revealed last week she had been told by Catalan police the man, spotted by crew on a cruise liner docking hours after he was filmed leaving the Irish pub, was likely to be Levi.
The regional Mossos d’Esquadra police force insisted his possible drowning was only “one line of inquiry” and others hadn’t been ruled out.
Distraught Julie went on to criticise the delay in the cruise ship information coming out and brand Spanish police “slow.”
But she is now facing more frustration after it was confirmed there is still no news on when and whether an exhaustive search for her missing son will take place.
For searches of the waters and other inaccessible areas of Barcelona port, where his passport was found in November, the authorisation of a judge is needed.
Overnight sources at the High Court of Justice of Catalonia confirmed: “The investigating judge is waiting for a coastguard report informing on everything that’s been done.
“There’s no request by the judge for any type of search at present. Once this report is received, the following steps will be considered.”
Another well-placed source said cases such as this become part of the judicial process “the judge decides on things as and when they’re requested”.
“Once the judge receives the report and sees what work the local coastguards have done, he’ll be able to decide whether he can approve new procedures or not,” added the source.
Julie, who believes Levi was being blackmailed and his life was in danger, made her lonely pilgrimage a week last Sunday, to retrace his steps.
Levi appeared on the X-Factor in 2019 as part of the group Try Star with fellow rugby players Ben Foden and Thom Evans.
Already at the height of his rugby career with Bath, Levi signed a record deal and started playing small concerts and recording music.
A year later he appeared on E4’s Celebs Go Dating and became the first rugby union player to come out as bisexual.
Levi’s disappearance continues to remain a mystery that appears to throw up more questions than answers.
The former X-factor star had shared a now-deleted video saying he was being blackmailed by criminals who threatened to kill him and his family.
The Sun Online tried to retrace his steps in Ibiza and Barcelona and spoke to the bartender in the Old Irish Pub, who was probably the last person to see him alive.
A friend of the Bath winger previously revealed that a message they sent to the star two months after his disappearance had in fact been read.
In the December 15 message, which has been shared with The Sun Online, Levi’s friend pleaded: “Please come home. I love you. And miss you xx.”
It adds to the question of how Levi’s 38 Instagram contacts were mysteriously deleted.
Another theory is that Levi was being hunted down by a Somalian gang over a £100,000 debt.
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