Lapthorne: Police Tampered With CCTV Footage - Current Events - Croatia

Britt Lapthorne’s parents claim Dubrovnik’s police removed CCTV footage where a suspicious van can be seen.

The Channel 7 documentary openly accused Dubrovnik’s police of removing parts of the CCTV footage that could lead to the murderer of their daughter, writes news.com.au.

Accusations against Dubrovnik’s police

The Australian citizen Britt Lapthorne (21) went missing on September 18, 2008 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The circumstances of her disappearance are still not clear, and she was last seen alive during the night in the “Fuego” club in the company of two men and five women.

Britt Lapthorne’s parents asked Dubrovnik’s police to see the recordings, which they were allowed to do on November 30.

The father claims that a girl can be seen on one recording, who looks like Britt, who walked towards the van, but when the same recordings were sent to Australia, that part was missing.

“When we viewed it over and over again we saw that particular frames were frozen for several frames, and then the image would jump” “So, frames had been removed. That figure is not to be seen. We know we saw that figure. It was so distinctive” said Britt Lapthorne’s father Dale.

The father of the missing Australian claims that the van matches the descriptions that the kidnapers used to intercept their victims.

Remember, the Channel 7 documentary included three girls who experienced attempted kidnappings in front of the Fuego club in Dubrovnik. An unknown group of young men introduced themselves as police officers to them, after which the documentary concluded that an organized group of kidnapers was in question.