Levi Davis update in hunt for X Factor star as family face agonising wait for answers 7 months after he vanished
COPS have revealed their search for missing X Factor star Levi Davis in the waters around Barcelona’s port will continue for up to 15 days.
Divers are desperately looking for any “trace” of the young Brit, as his family face seven gruelling months without answers.
Levi, 24, was an aspiring singer and talented rugby player that appeared to have a glittering future when he suddenly vanished on October 29 last year.
He was last seen at 10pm that night leaving a pub in Barcelona..
The only trace of him that has ever been found was his passport, which turned up 20 days after he vanished at the city’s port.
The police divers have already spent 15 days searching in the area of Barcelona’s port.
However, cops told The Sun Online that the search will now last a month.
“The water team that we have continues to do so and will continue for another 10-15 days approximately,” a spokesperson for the Mossos d’Esquadra Maritime Police said.
They stated that they are looking to “find a trace of him” in order to discover what happened.
“Apart from the investigation we have already conducted, speak[ing] to people, tips we have received, CCTV footage etc – everything leads to this,” they said.
Spanish police confirmed on May 18 that the theory Levi had accidentally drowned was their “principal hypothesis”.
Divers then began searching for him in Barcelona’s busy port and in the Llobregat Delta, a nearby wetland zone close to Barcelona–El Prat Airport.
The latter area has never-before been mentioned in connection with Levi’s disappearance.
A local investigating judge is understood to have authorised the searches after receiving a report from coastguards.
The Sun was on the ground alongside the search in late May, which has so far provided little answers to what happened to the rugby player.
The possibility Levi had drowned in or near the port emerged several weeks before police began searching the area.
Levi’s mum Julie said police had told her they believed her son was likely to be the man spotted by the four members of cruise liner MSC Bellissima.
The cruise ship docked in Barcelona around the same time he vanished, and the man was seen 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 a helicopter and a boat to save him.
Another vessel operated by firefighters was also sent to the scene along with police and Red Cross vessels.
The search operation is said to have lasted an entire day but was called off after it was confirmed no one was missing from the cruise liner.
Levi’s disappearance had not been reported to police at the time, leading the port incident to be dubbed a “missed chance” to save him.
Mystery has long shrouded the X Factor star’s disappearance – with it being unclear why exactly he went to Barcelona in the first place after staying with a pal in Ibiza.
A close friend of Levi told The Sun Online last month that he messaged her hours before he was last seen for month for a mystery trip.
Chantelle Small, 35, revealed that he asked her for £50 to “get to his destination” and said he couldn’t get hold of anyone else in the early hours.
When she asked where he was and where he was going, Levi declined to answer, simply saying: “Don’t worry, I’ll sort it”.
The messages are some of the last known contact Levi had with his friends before he vanished.