Missing Britt Lapthorne’s Body Found?

Dubrovnik police found a body suspected to be that of the missing Australian backpacker, Britt Lapthorne.

DUBROVNIK, CROATIA - Dubrovnik police found a body in an inlet behind city walls, between Danac and the Libertas Hotel. the body was first noticed by a fisherman.

Although it has not been confirmed if the body is that of a male or female, there is suspicion that it is the Australian backpacker, Britt Lapthorne, who went missing in the Croatian coastal town on September 18.

Dubrovnik-Neretva County deputy commissioner Ivan Kukrika confirmed for us that a body was found.

- The bodily remains are in very bad a condition and identification is impossible for the time being – Kukrika told us, adding that a local fisherman first saw the body. So far, none of the details are familiar and the investigation is still underway.

The body has been taken to the pathology ward of the Dubrovnik hospital. None of the Lapthorne family were at the scene where the body was found.

The body was found an hour after the father of the missing girl, Dale Lapthorne, said that special investigators from Zagreb are still searching for Britt. The father stressed he was hoping to find her alive.

Dubrovnik police questioned the son of the owner of the hostel in which Britt was staying because she apparently called him the night before she went missing. An anonymous man called the hotel in which Britt's parents are staying to say that the hostel owner had tried to send Britt's passport to Australia by post the day after she went missing.