A female British journalist who is missing in Brazil was reportedly seen boarding a bus in the city of Sao Paulo.

According to Brazilian television news programme Jornal da Record, police now believe that they have footage of , 32, entering the vehicle bound for Rio de Janeiro in the city’s Tiete Bus Terminal. Initial reports said Charlotte was last seen or heard of on February 8 after messaging a female friend and telling her she was heading to Rio from Sao Paulo.

Charlotte, who had worked as a freelance journalist in for two years, returned to the South American country in November but didn’t tell her worried family. Just four days before she went missing she had shared a message in a group about renting apartments in .

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She wrote: "Hello. I'm looking for a double room in South West/East London: East Dulwich, Brixton, Herne Hill, Clapham, Balham, Streatham, Camberwell etc or would consider venturing east to the right place. I’m a 32-year-old journalist, friendly, respectful and organised. I love reading, keeping active and chatting to friends. Let me know if I sound like a good fit! Thanks.”

Her father Derek Peet has said the family is "very concerned", and told Sky News that Charlotte . He said last week: “I wouldn't say that it was normal, there was something on her mind obviously otherwise she would have let us know.”

He said she had been traced to Gatwick Airport after her mum reported her missing to police. She was found to have boarded a flight to Sao Paulo. He added: “It's very worrying but I don't have any more to say, I'm very concerned but I just don't know what's going on, we're just trying to pick up the pieces really.”

and morgues have so far been checked as part of the search. Charlotte’s family have also provided investigators with her bank account details and IMEI tracking information for her phone.

Charlotte studied philosophy at the University of Bristol before doing a masters degree in international journalism at City St George’s, University of London. Her LinkedIn page says she worked as a reporter for the Rio Times for seven months in 2020 before becoming a foreign desk intern at The Times. She went to work as a freelance journalist for more than five years in Brazil and London before starting to work in March last year as an editorial team lead for data generation platform Mindrift.

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