Boyfriend denies missing Kate link

Ms Osborne was last seen on 19 April 2003

The boyfriend of a Cumbrian aid worker missing on the island of Bali has once again denied having anything to do with her disappearance.

Police officers investigating the disappearance of Kate Osborne had been keen to speak to her Peruvian boyfriend Jose Henricci, a professional surfer.

Ms Osborne, 35, from Head's Nook, near Carlisle, was last seen in Bali in the early hours of 19 April, 2003.

Mr Henricci, being held in a prison in Puerto Maldonado, eastern Peru, on drug-smuggling charges, has told Peruvian journalists: "I did not kill her and I have absolutely no idea where she is."

He has previously appeared on Peruvian television to deny any link to the disappearance.

Mr Henricci is awaiting trial in Puerto Maldonado which is 500 miles east of Lima.

Mystery calls

A check of travel records show he left Bali on 30 March, and arrived in Peru on 1 April.

Cumbria Police say there was no indication Henricci had re-entered Bali between April 1 and 18.

There have been no sightings of Ms Osborne, who worked as an aid worker and translator, since she dropped off a Dutch friend early on 19 April.

One suggestion was that Ms Osborne had been targeted by drugs gangs connected to Mr Henricci, but this has also been ruled out by police in Cumbria.

Indonesian police in Bali want to find a mystery person the missing woman contacted repeatedly on a pay-as-you-go mobile phone on the morning she vanished.

Ms Osborne lived in Bali for nearly four years, teaching English and then acting as a translator following last October's nightclub bombing.