Agnese Klavina, 30, has not been seen since leaving the Aqwa Mist club with two British men in the Spanish resort in September last year
A boat has been seized by police searching for a UK waitress who went missing after a night out in Marbella.
Agnese Klavina, 30, has not been seen since leaving the Aqwa Mist club in the Spanish resort in September last year.
Two British men were seen driving her away from the club but both claim she was dropped off safely and deny doing her any harm.
Today it emerged police forensic experts have examined a motorboat from which they fear Agnese’s body may have been thrown into the sea.
The vessel was seized in the port of Cartagena in south east Spain, around 300 miles east of a port near Marbella where it had been based before Agnese went missing six months ago.
DNA samples taken from the boat - treated as a crime scene - have been sent to a specialist lab in Madrid.
One of the British men is the Spanish-based son of a millionaire property developer from Essex and is thought to be the owner of the boat.
Both men are suspects in the mystery disappearance but no formal charges have been brought in accordance with Spanish law.
The two Brits, along with a local doorman, were arrested in November on suspicion of the waitress’s “illegal detention”.
A secrecy order has been placed over the case, preventing police and other public officials from making any official comment and only giving lawyers acting for the British suspects and Agnese’s family limited access to information.
The missing persons file is likely to be upgraded to a murder probe if evidence of foul play is found on the boat.
Agnese, who was born in Latvia, was spending the summer in Marbella after leaving her London home.
Her boyfriend Michael Millis, 38, a former London club owner, searched the resort after her disappearance in the early hours of Saturday, September 6.
He said: “The longer Agnese is missing the more pessimistic we are about ever seeing her alive again.
“We’re being kept in the dark about the police and judicial investigation because of the secrecy order that’s been placed over the case.
“But the scant information we have discovered does not give any cause for optimism whatsoever.”