Investigator says he KNOWS who is behind the Levi Davis disappearance in Spain
EXCLUSIVE: Levi Davis breakthrough as investigator says he KNOWS who is behind the X Factor star’s disappearance in Spain
A British private investigator claims to have identified the person responsible for the disappearance of former Bath rugby player and X Factor star Levi Davis.
Gavin Burrows told MailOnline investigators have submitted a suite of evidence to Spanish police that suggests an as yet unnamed man drugged, groomed and manipulated Levi over the course of several months and was thus behind his disappearance in Spain last year.
Initial reports suggested he may have drowned in the city’s port after his passport was found nearby, but Burrows’ team believes he is likely still alive.
They claim to have uncovered a digital recording of their main suspect admitting to planting Levi’s picture on a dating website and accessing his social media accounts as recently as three weeks ago.
Levi was last seen leaving an Irish pub on October 29 after taking a ferry from Ibiza but he vanished just hours after arriving in Barcelona.
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In a breakthrough in the case, a private investigator claims to have identified the person responsible for the disappearance of former Bath rugby player and X Factor star Levi Davis
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Davis travelled on a ferry from Ibiza to Barcelona from where he went missing in October
In a video recorded days prior to his disappearance, Levi alleged he was drugged and forced to perform sexual acts by an unnamed man shortly after his run on X Factor in 2018.
He said he was being manipulated and blackmailed by this man and several other unnamed individuals, who according to Levi threatened to kill him and members of his family if he did not cooperate with their nefarious scheme.
The ex-Bath rugby player said at the start of the 15-minute footage: ‘Hello my name is Levi Davis and my life is in danger,’ before going on to claim he was filmed performing various sexual acts after being drugged – footage blackmailers used to control and manipulate him.
He said: ‘I was told by them in ways which are not direct but are absolutely true that they were going to attempt – if I said anything out – they were going to attempt to kill me, threaten my family.
‘And they also were trying to frame me.’
His video plea for help was mysteriously removed minutes after it was posted to his social media, but a copy of it was obtained last week by Line of Inquiry investigators.
Mr Burrows claimed he had retrieved the Instagram video, which Levi first posted four days before he vanished, and released it with the agreement of family and friends to help get information.
Now Burrows believes his team has discovered the mastermind behind Levi’s harrowing predicament.
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In the clip provided to MailOnline by Burrows, Levi says that after he completed his stint on X Factor in 2019, he met an unnamed individual with whom he began a relationship and met regularly, until one time he was drugged
‘Levi was lured to Barcelona on a pretext and was never seen again. Two days after posting his video on social media, he disappeared,’ Burrows said.
The investigator said the evidence has been turned over to Spanish authorities and expects more details of the case to be released in the coming days.
Levi played Premiership rugby union for Bath between 2017 and 2020, when he joined Ealing Trailfinders. A year later he signed for Worthing Raiders.
The rugby player-turned-reality star performed on X Factor: Celebrity in 2019 with fellow rugby players Ben Foden and Thom Evans as part of the group Try Star.
In 2020, the year he made history by becoming the first rugby union player to come out as bisexual while still playing, he appeared on the E4 dating series Celebs Go Virtual Dating.
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Levi Davis was last seen leaving The Old Irish Pub in Barcelona on October 29