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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
Spanish police search for missing Briton after finding his abandoned van
Police in Spain are searching for a British man whose van was found abandoned near a popular beach resort on the Costa Brava coast. Matthew Chapman, 24, from Manchester, was reported missing by his family on April 30. Police said they found his van at a viewpoint on the road north from Tossa de Mar toward the town of Sant Feliu de Guíxols. After conducting a two-day search, police called it off on Thursday, a spokeswoman for Catalonia's Mossos d'Esquadra told The Telegraph. According to the Spanish news site police sources said Mr Chapman drove his van to France on May 1 via the Eurotunnel. Signals from his two mobile phones showed him in both Spain and Portugal between May 2 and May 4, before being lost on the Costa Brava where his van was found. Catalan police linked the van to Mr Chapman's missing person file on Interpol. On Wednesday and Thursday last week, firefighters searched the area around the van with sniffer dogs and drones, but found no sign of him or a body. 'It was a land, sea and air search which took place on Wednesday and Thursday,' said a spokesman for Mossos d'Esquadra. 'The investigation into the missing man's whereabouts is continuing.' According to sources from the investigation cited by Mr Chapman's family have told the police that he had a history of mental health problems. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
The Sun
5 days ago
- The Sun
Desperate hunt for Brit, 24, who vanished in Costa Brava as his abandoned van found after driving from UK to Spain
SPANISH police are searching for a missing Brit who has vanished after reaching the Costa Brava. The 24-year-old from Manchester had left the UK in a van, which has been found abandoned and empty at a viewpoint overlooking the Mediterranean near the popular resort of Tossa de Mar. 1
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Yahoo
Huge search being carried out as Manchester man, 24, goes missing in Spain
A 'land, sea and air' search has been carried out after a man from Manchester disappeared on Spain's Costa Brava. The 24-year-old man has named locally as Matthew Chapman. It has emerged that he left the UK in a van which was then found 'abandoned' at a viewpoint overlooking the Mediterranean, near Tossa de Mar. The Catalonian resort is about 60 miles north of Barcelona and the same distance south of the French border. READ MORE: Tributes pour in as 'Manchester's number one legend' Arthur Donnelly dies READ MORE: More than 2,000 people in Greater Manchester asked to be able to vote for London's mayor - now the Government has responded family are said to have reported him missing on Wednesday, April 30. Police and firefighters launched a two-day search operation to look for him, earlier this week. A helicopter and drones were used before it was called-off late on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the Mossos d'Esquadra regional police force said: 'It was a land, sea and air search which took place on Wednesday and Thursday. The investigation into the missing man's whereabouts is continuing.' It is not clear what the police's next steps will be. Catalan news website El Caso reported last night investigators had discovered Matthew travelled to France on May 1 on the Eurotunnel and spent time in Portugal and Spain before his mobile phone signal petered out near Tossa de Mar around 60 miles north of Barcelona. Officers are said to be keeping an open mind on what could have happened to Matthew. The Mossos d'Esquadra force previously led the probe into rugby player and X Factor star Levi Davis' disappearance in Barcelona. The last confirmed sighting of Levi was of him leaving an Irish pub in the Catalan capital on the night of October 29 2022 after taking a boat from Ibiza with just £35 in his pocket and no change of clothes. The port search and another in the Llobregat Delta, one of Catalonia's most important wetland zones near Barcelona where police said at the time sea currents could have taken his body or items of clothing, failed to yield any clues. They were organised after four members of cruise liner MSC Bellissima, which docked in Barcelona around eight hours after the pub CCTV sighting, said they had seen a man in the sea wearing the same light-coloured top as Levi and shouting for help in English. A lifebuoy was thrown to him and coastguards in Barcelona mobilised their helicopter called Helimer 203 and a vessel called Salvamar Mintaka. A boat operated by firefighters was also sent to the scene along with police and Red Cross vessels but they were stood down after it was confirmed no-one was missing from the cruise liner and police confirmed no-one had been reported missing in port waters or in the sea off Barcelona. A British tourist went missing at Alicante airport at the end of March after a stag do in Benidorm before being found. Jason Taylor, 36, vanished as he waited for a flight back to Birmingham, sparking a police manhunt which had a happy ending nearly four days later on April 1 when he was spotted walking along a nearby beach. Police sources said after he was found that the fact he didn't have his mobile phone on him had caused him extra complications.
