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Dale Lapthorne: Croatian Police Ignore Evidence
Britt’s father considers that Croatian police ignored other kidnapping attempts, and says they do not want to know what happened to Britt.
Dale Lapthorne: Croatian Police Ignore Evidence
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Britt Lapthorne, Australian girl who went missing in Croatia

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Joseph Stedul
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Amalija Šašek
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Published: February 08, 2009 19:48h

Australia’s “Channel 7” broadcast a documentary on Sunday about the Britt Lapthorne case, which they linked to three attempted kidnappings in Dubrovnik. The young Australian Amber said that only five days after Britt disappeared, a group of men tried to kidnap her, and Kate, who was attaked a year earlier recognized the photo robot.

Dale Lapthorne, the father of Britt Lapthorne, said that the Croatian police are ignoring all of the evidence.

Britt’s father Dale said for Javno that the documentary is good and that there is a lot of new information. However, he said that they were frustrated due to the procedures by Dubrovnik’s police who are ignoring the other crimes and evidence of the whole case.

He added that the Croatian police want to show Britt’s death as an unfortunate accident.

Croatian police should protect tourists

Dale mentioned that Dubrovnik’s police keep on mentioning the autopsy results. He said that the autopsy did not show that Britt was not killed, and that nothing was proven. The autopsy did not manage to reveal the cause of death. Dale said that he cannot understand how the police can keep giving such statements.

Dale concluded that the Croatian police do not want to know exactly what happened to Britt.

He said that Dubrovnik’s police should firstly protect the tourists.

Dale said that normal young people are now afraid to visit Dubrovnik after all of this, and that the police can fix that only if they protect tourists.

Britt’s father voiced his gratitude for the support from the Croatian and Australian media.

We tried to contact the Dubrovnik police, but nobody answered the telephone all morning.

However, at around 1pm an announcement arrived from Zlatko Sokolar, the head of the Dubrovnik-Neretva police department. They repeated that the case of Britt Lapthorne’s death is still open, and that cooperation with Interpol is continuing, as well as the bilateral cooperation of the police with certain countries.

The report states that up until now, the police have every notice or information that they have received aimed at solving the circumstances of her death.

“Only after a detailed study of the Channel 7 documentary, and new information, we will be able to say more” it says in the report.

A few days ago they said that they have no new evidence and that they cannot speak about a suspect because the autopsy did not show the cause of Britt Lapthorne’s death.

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