Mother of Levi Davis weeps as she watches video of X factor rugby star performing song dedicated to his grandmother as she prays he ‘turns up’ one year since going missing in Barcelona

• Levi Davis, 24, disappeared on October 29, 2022 after travelling to Barcelona
• One year after he went missing, Spanish officials halted the investigation
• His mother and grandmother say they pray he will still turn up ‘whenever that is’

The mother of missing Levi Davis wept as she watched a video of the X Factor rugby star performing a song he dedicated to his grandmother – one year after he went missing in Barcelona.

The family of the missing star became emotional as they watched the video he filmed of himself, where he dedicated a song to his ‘rockstar’ grandmother.

Julie and Mavis Davis sat together on a sofa to watch the video of the upbeat singer, who was 24 when he went missing, as he jumped and danced around.

One year after his disappearance on October 29, 2022 when he travelled to Barcelona alone, his mother wept as she said ‘I just hope that he does turn up, whenever that is’.

Spanish officials said they’ve halted their investigation into the rugby player’s disappearance.

The mother of missing Levi Davis wept as she watched a video of the X Factor rugby star performing a song he dedicated to his grandmother – one year after he went missing

One year after his disappearance on October 29, 2022 when he travelled to Barcelona alone, his mother wept as she said ‘I just hope that he does turn up, whenever that is’ 

Julie and Mavis Davis sat together on a sofa to watch the video of the upbeat singer

Police concluded in April that Mr Davis had likely drowned after a witness on a cruise ship claimed to have seen a man fitting his description in the water on the day he went missing.

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Divers searched the area in May but found no evidence to move the case on.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast a year after he went missing, Mr Davis’ mother and grandmother said they still hold hope that he will turn up.

They wept as they watched a video the star filmed for his grandmother, where the upbeat singer said: ‘This song reminds me of Sunday School, of church, of Mavis Davis, my grandma.

‘What a name – rockstar. Famous in the church.’

His mother Julie spoke when watching the video: ‘It is hard, as the days are going by.

‘Coming up to the anniversary, it’s bringing it all back again. The emotions. I just hope that he does turn up, whenever that is.’

Mr Davis’ disappearance remains a mystery to police, but the leading theory is that he drowned off the coast of Barcelona the day he went missing.

Levi Davis, a talented rugby player was last seen at the Hard Rock Cafe in Barcelona

Levi’s mother Julie Davis (pictured), who believes her son was being blackmailed

The winger, 24, who starred on X Factor: Celebrity, was last seen out with friends

Detectives said earlier this year they had discovered Mr Davis’ phone signal was last picked up in the early hours of October 30 by a telephone mast near the port

The Ealing Trailfinders winger was last seen leaving the Old Irish Pub in Barcelona on the famous Rambla.

Security cameras caught him leaving the pub, after just 35 minutes, at 10.05pm. He had ordered a pint while watching football on TV.

He walked the short distance north on La Rambla to the nearby Hard Rock Cafe before heading south again and towards the port.

READ MORE – Mother of X Factor star Levi Davis who disappeared in Spain says she ‘can’t make head nor tail’ of the case and slams the country’s ‘slow’ police 

Detectives said earlier this year they had discovered Mr Davis’ phone signal was last picked up in the early hours of October 30 by a telephone mast near the port.

His passport was then found a few days after his disappearance lying on a bench nearby.

Catalan police launched a search for Mr Davis on November 8 before receiving an official missing persons’ report from an Ibiza-based friend on November 12.

Officers also spoke to four crew members of a cruise liner docking in Barcelona at 6.30am on October 30 – the day after Levi disappeared – who reported seeing a man in the sea wearing the same light-coloured top as Levi.

They said the man shouted for help several times in English.

A lifebuoy was thrown down to him but a subsequent search by police and coastguard found nobody.

Officials at first said drowning was only ‘one line of inquiry’ and that others hadn’t been ruled out.

Julie Davis, his mother, criticised the investigation by Spanish police as being ‘slow’.

She also claimed that her son was depressed after struggling with ‘money worries’ and ‘racial prejudice’ in his career at the time of his disappearance.

The case was handed over to a specialist investigative unit in February 2023.

The Mossos d’Esquadra told The Sun their separate investigation would stay open.

Mr Davis played Premiership rugby union for Bath between 2017 and 2020, when he joined Ealing Trailfinders. A year later he signed for Worthing Raiders.

He starred on Celebrity X Factor in 2019 alongside fellow rugby stars Ben Foden and Thom Evans in a singing group known as Try Star.

He also appeared on E4’s Celebs Go Dating in 2020.

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