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Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
British journalist missing in Brazil found safe
A British journalist reported missing in Brazil since February has been found safe and well, police have said. Charlotte Alice Peet, 32, was reported missing to authorities by her UK-based family after losing contact with her in February. At time the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in Brazil (ACIE) released a statement "expressing concern over her disappearance". On Monday, Brazilian police told the BBC they had found Ms Peet in a hostel in São Paulo in March and she expressed a desire not to have contact with family members. "In view of this, the investigation of the disappearance was concluded," a spokesperson for Rio state's Civil Police said. At the time of her disappearance, Ms Peet was understood to have last contacted a friend on 8 February, saying she was in São Paulo and planned to travel to Rio de Janeiro. She had not been heard from since. Days later, her UK-based family told the friend they had lost contact with her and provided authorities with details of her flight and a copy of her passport to aid the search. According to her LinkedIn profile, Ms Peet has worked as a freelance journalist in Rio and London for organisations including Al Jazeera and The Times.
Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Health
- Daily Mirror
Heartbreak for family of missing Brit as she is found in Brazil
Journalist Charlotte Alice Peet was found by police after she went missing in Brazil in February - but she told authorities she did not want to be contacted by her family A family has been left devastated after a British journalist who went missing in Brazil was found but said she did not want to be contacted. Charlotte Alice Peet was found in a hostel in the city of Sao Paulo. The case has now closed after Charlotte, 32, went missing in February but 'expressed her desire not to have contact with her family', according to police in Brazil. 'She was there and clearly demonstrated that she had no interest in maintaining contact with her family, nor in returning to her country,' said Missing Persons Unit head Ellen Souto. She had been spotted getting on a bus from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro and was seen at a bar on Copacabana Beach. She was last heard from when she messaged a friend saying she had plans to travel to Rio and needed somewhere to stay. The friend told her this would not be possible and Charlotte did not respond to any further messages, including ones from her own family. From February 17 to 24, Charlotte stayed in hostels in Botafogo and Leme, both areas in Rio, During the police search for Charlotte, authorities accessed the photos taken on her phone and saw selifes she had taken. This included one of her on the coach to Rio and her in the Leme district of the city, where she was at a beachside bar. One photo showed her wearing sunglasses and pouting for her camera, on a street close to Rio's famous Hotel Hilton Copacabana. Police said during the time Charlotte was missing that their main line of investigation was a "voluntary disappearance". Souto said then: "We have two mobile phone numbers for her. The British number receives messages and calls. The Brazilian number, which has an area code for Sao Paulo, is programmed to not receive calls." According to Charlotte's LinkedIn page, she has worked for the likes of The Times, Al Jazeera, the BBC and The Telegraph during nine years in journalism. She lived in Brazil between 2020 and 2022 - her page also says she is fluent in Portuguese - and went back there in November last year after a brief period in the UK. Previously, Charlotte's dad Derek Preet said she went back to Brazil without telling her family. 'I wouldn't say that it was normal, there was something on her mind obviously otherwise she would have let us know,' he said. He added: 'It's very worrying but I don't have any more to say, I'm very concerned but I just don't know what's going on, we're just trying to pick up the pieces really.' It comes following a tragic update in the case of rescued backpacker Hannah Almond after a homeless man who became friends with her sadly died. The British tourist began sleeping rough when her belongings were stolen in Peru. Hannah ended up sleeping under a brdge in the city of Cusco. The man she slept next to became the only person she trusted for the next month. She was found by a Good Samaritan she had earlier met on her travels who tracked down the 32-year-old after he joined the search for her. But it later emerged the elderly man Hannah trusted died at a charity OAP residence he had been taken to following a brief stay at a hostel. He was found dead in his bed, it is understood. Cusco public beneficence department legal adviser Henry Gonzales said the man - who died with the initials 'NN' for 'no name' - was in ok health when he was taken in. There is no suggestion of suspicion in the man's death, according to recent reports.
Metro
3 days ago
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- Metro
British journalist who vanished in Brazil four months ago has been found
A British journalist who went missing in Brazil has been found after four months in a hostel in Sao Paulo. Charlotte Alice Peet, who was working for Al Jazeera and British news outlets, was found alive on Monday after going missing in February. Police said she had 'expressed her desire not to have contact with her family', and had flown out to South America without telling them. The 32-year-old had been seen boarding a bus from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, and was also spotted at a bar Copacabana Beach. She was last heard from after messaging a friend saying she was preparing to travel to Rio and was looking for somewhere to stay. Charlotte then failed to respond to any further messages, including from her worried family. Charlotte's father Derek Peet told Sky News after she was reported missing that she had flown to Brazil without telling her family. He said: 'I wouldn't say that it was normal, there was something on her mind obviously otherwise she would have let us know.' 'It's very worrying but I don't have any more to say, I'm very concerned but I just don't know what's going on, we're just trying to pick up the pieces really.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Madeleine McCann police using radars to 'scour' trenches in fresh search after 'tip-off' MORE: Body of British hiker, 36, found months after going missing in Italian Dolomites MORE: Fears grow for British tourist who vanished on first night of stag do in Algarve party hotspot
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Police find British journalist reported missing in Brazil
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro police said on Monday that a British journalist reported missing nearly four months ago had been out of contact with her family voluntarily and the case has been closed. Charlotte Alice Peet, who had worked as a freelance reporter in Brazil for Al Jazeera and British news outlets, went missing in early February. She was located in a Sao Paulo hostel, police said on Monday, adding she "expressed her desire not to have contact with her family."
The Star
3 days ago
- The Star
Police find British journalist reported missing in Brazil
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro police said on Monday that a British journalist reported missing nearly four months ago had been out of contact with her family voluntarily and the case has been closed. Charlotte Alice Peet, who had worked as a freelance reporter in Brazil for Al Jazeera and British news outlets, went missing in early February. She was located in a Sao Paulo hostel, police said on Monday, adding she "expressed her desire not to have contact with her family." (Reporting by Andre Romani; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
