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MISSING ENGLISH GIRL

But the story held more intrigue. Borrador was also missing. In Kate’s last phone call to her mum, she’d said that ‘Joseph’ had gone to Peru to see his family and was due back soon. When it came to light that he was now also missing, that he owed Kate at least £20,000, and that he sometimes brutally bashed her, he was the obvious prime suspect.

The mystery of the car, the abandoned dog and the vanishing friends from Bali’s surf set would not normally cause serious alarm on an island where most people come to escape from everyday life. The real concern has been raised by Henrici’s violent behaviour, all too typical of a small group of Latin American surfers who have a reputation for aggression and hard living.

‘She really, really loved him,’ said Osborne’s live-in maid, Ni Ketut Dya, 32, ‘but they fought all the time.’ In a statement to Indonesian police, the maid said that on one occasion she became so frightened by their fighting that she called the police station. The row had subsided by the time officers arrived, she said.

One night in mid-March, an eyewitness said, Henrici hit her in front of customers at the Woodstock Cafe. ‘The management threw him out but he waited for Kate outside, hid behind her car and attacked her when she left,’ said the witness. She was left with bruising and cuts that required hospital treatment.

— Sunday Times, 15 June 2003

‘I cannot tell you much about him at all,’ Mrs Osborne said. ‘I have only spoken to him briefly on the phone once.’

— The Times, 4 June 2003

Sitting on their hands in the north of England, with the Bali police investigation agonisingly slow, and suspecting little effort

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