New CCTV footage has been shared as part of an ongoing search for a woman who has been missing for nearly a month.
The first new clip shows a woman believed to be Vitoria Barreto in a field south of the Hurst Green area of Brightlingsea, between Back Waterside Lane and Mill Street, at 3.33pm on March 3.
This is about an hour after the 30-year-old was seen in Hurst Green.
A second clip shows her walking through an industrial site on the south side of Copperas Road, closer to Brightlingsea Creek and the marina, at 12.16am on March 4.
The footage is in a boatyard off Copperas Road and places her closer to the area where a boat was unmoored from a pontoon.
Detective Superintendent Anna Granger said: "We’re continuing to work to close the timeframe between the last known sighting of Vitoria and the time which we know a boat was unmoored from a pontoon.
"Whilst we are not able to conclusively say that it was Vitoria who unmoored that boat, which was then found adrift at Bradwell-on-Sea, this new confirmed sighting brings her closer to that area and does strengthen the view that it was her.
"We’ve always based our searches on the basis that the person is Vitoria but we would dearly love to provide her loved ones with certainty – and we’re continuing to work to do that."
Essex police are also working with international authorities to access Vitoria’s communication and financial records in the hope of uncovering more information.
Ms Barreto left the University of Essex campus in Wivenhoe just after 1pm on March 3 on the number 87 bus in Boundary Road.
She got off 30 minutes later in Bellfield Avenue, Brightlingsea.
She was last seen wearing a dark coat, a blue turtleneck jumper, light blue jeans and black trainers.
Anyone with information or sightings is urged to contact police by calling 999 and quoting incident 622 of March 4.
Enquiries remain ongoing.
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