TWISTS and turns have come to light in the 'needle-in-a-haystack' search for Madrid sixth-former Diana Quer, who went missing in the early hours of August 22 in the family's regular holiday haunt in Galicia.
The 18-year-old was described as a 'home-loving girl' who 'would never have run away voluntarily', and her last contact by telephone was a WhatsApp message to a friend at home in Madrid to say a man of gypsy origin was following her at 02.30 and trying to attract her attention.
Described as tall and slim – 1.75m and 55 kilos, or 5'9” and 8st 9lb – with very long, dark hair and wearing a white top, black lace-up shoes, pink shorts and a hoodie, Diana was said not to have made it home that night as her mother would have heard her, given that she 'sleeps with the door open'.
But her mother, also called Diana, has now admitted through her solicitor that her daughter must have returned home, since she found her pink shorts in her bedroom and a pair of jeans missing.
Diana Junior had taken her spare key to the holiday home in the seaside town of A Pobra do Caramiñal (A Coruña province) where she had spent every summer since she was three, but had left behind her DNI or national identity card and all her money, which was about €20 in cash.
It was initially thought she had been abducted during the walk home from the late-night open-air disco, part of the town's local fiestas, where she had been partying with friends.
But the 'man of gypsy origin', who was found to be one of the fairground workers and had been trying to hit on young women all night in the same way as he did with Diana, has been interrogated and ruled out as a suspect.
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