subject of any pressure or coercion by another individual. Sources said Ms In a statement, the Federal Police in her native town of Joinville, southern Brazil, said: Thomsen reported she was doing well in London and that she did not want to be found, not even by her parents. She has the right to stay But while it seems Ms Thomsen did not fall foul of kidnappers, the idealism The Independent has been told that Ms Thomsen, who was studying for a journalism degree before she left Brazil, may also have gone to ground At the time when she cut links with her parents last September, Ms Thomsen was working at Sunset Strip, a sex club in London's Soho where she worked as Tony Curran, the club's owner, said she had been a show dancer and never came in contact with clients.
There is no suggestion Ms Thomsen was working Mr Curran said: She worked here for eight weeks last summer. There was no physical contact with customers in the work she used to do. Another Brazilian girl working at the bar, who gave her name as Vania, said Ms Thomsen had taken on the work because she was short of money.
Vania said: money. She wanted to study English. Scotland Yard, which launched a search for Ms Thomsen last week after being contacted by Interpol, said it had ended its operation after being contacted Carlos Mellinger, president of the Brazilian Association of the United worried she may have some psychological and legal issues.
Her visa has close may have a problem with depression. We want to offer her any further help she might want. aspiring journalist, who described her hobbies in the Miss World contest as tennis, swimming, samba and belly dancing.
working for charity than flaunting her body. She added: My ambition is to become a journalist and television hostess. In my spare time, with my friends, we make baby clothes to raise funds for children's charities.
Her aspirations failed to come to fruition, and circumstances persuaded Ms After her parents, Antonio and Angela, failed to hear anything from her after a hurried phone call that September, they went on Brazilian television last month to plead for information. Mrs Thomsen said: When I last spoke to her, she wouldn't answer any questions. I asked if she had been kidnapped and the line went dead.
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