Missing X-Factor star Levi Davis WAS being blackmailed several former ITV show contestants tell private investigator
MISSING X Factor star Levi Davis was being blackmailed, several former show participants have told a private investigator working for his family.
The 24-year-old posted a haunting final video in which he said he was being blackmailed by criminals who threatened to kill him and his family.
Levi was last seen leaving a pub in Barcelona on October 29 after taking a ferry to the city from Ibiza.
He said the blackmail began after he had been on X Factor in 2019 and though he initially deleted the Instagram video, it has been retrieved by private investigator Gavin Burrows.
Burrows has now tweeted that following Levi’s case being brought to light “we have received valuable alleged information from a number of former participants and other fellow contestants over a number of years in the X-Factor programme”.
He said these people “have confirmed the claims made in Davis’ video seem to be true”.
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His Line of Inquiry firm is offering a £10,000 reward for information that could lead to Levi being found.
Burrows said that as his team “continue our investigations, we have been approached by certain individuals related to the entertainment world”.
“However, instead of being concerned about the investigation or Levi Davis' whereabouts, these individuals have focused on asking us about how we obtained the information and from whom we received it.
“This interest has further increased our list of suspects in the case.”
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The investigator has said his team fear Levi may have drowned after being hunted by criminals over a £100,000 debt.
But until his body has been found, Burrows said he has to keep open the possibility that Levi is alive and could even be in hiding.
“If he is alive we believe he could be in hiding, in an involuntary exile somewhere like a monastery, to protect himself from toxic individuals," he said.
It comes after Burrows urged cops probing Levi’s disappearance were to arrest a friend accused of hindering the investigation.
"We're asking the police to investigate a friend of Levi's,” he told The Sun Online.
“We believe there's enough evidence for them to be arrested and questioned in connection with Levi's disappearance. We believe this person has been hindering the investigation"
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 the video Levi begins by saying: “My name is Levi Davis and my life is in danger. I beg that you listen and try to understand what I’m telling you.”
LEVI DAVIS DISAPPEARANCE TIMELINE
October 25 - Posted video on Instagram in which he talked about being blackmailed by criminals, who threatened to kill him and his family. It was originally deleted.
October 29 - Travelled to Barcelona from Ibiza and sent a video from the ferry in which he can be heard saying: "Hi mum... it's beautiful."
October 29 - Was seen around 10.30pm on CCTV leaving the Old Irish Pub. Close friend Mike Guida revealed he was left a message by Levi soon after he left the pub. He also made a mystery payment from his phone hours before.
October 30 - Levi's phone signal was last detected close to Barcelona's Sants Estació mainline train station overnight.
November 17 - Cops reported to be investigating two new sightings of Levi after he was potentially spotted just minutes from the pub.
November 19 - Levi’s passport was found in the port area of Barcelona, near a cargo shipment. His mum revealed his bank card had not been used since he vanished and only had €40 on him.
December 9 - Private Investigator Gavin Burrows begins working on the case and he offers a £10,000 reward for information leading to discovering what happened to Levi.
January 27 - Gavin Burrows reveals Levi may have fled for his life from his flat to escape a Somali drug gang he owed money to.
February 1 - Levi's Instagram had up to 38 contacts mysteriously deleted after he vanished, Burrows revealed. The names and how they were deleted could provide vital clues about what happened to him.
February 3 - The last video made by Levi resurfaces after being retrieved by Burrows and his team.
Levi said he “went to the police and I asked them if they could help me” because “something was happening to me and wasn’t something good”.
“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.”
Levi alleges that the blackmailers had access to his medical records as they brought up “things that only I have had conversations with the NHS”.
The Sun Online has chosen not to reveal why Levi alleges he was being blackmailed.
Exactly what has happened to Levi remains a mystery.
After his time on X Factor he began to build a music career with a second single - Los Angeles - due to be released in November, for which publicity pictures were taken.
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His friends say they were concerned about him before he left the UK.
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