A missing British mother who vanished in Tenerife nearly a week ago is safe and has returned home ‘tired and confused, but fine’, her delighted husband has revealed.
Giuseppe Bizzarro, 73, has confirmed his wife Kate Barley Bizzarro, 60, has returned home safely shortly after he insisted he did not believe her disappearance was voluntary.
Nearly a week after she was last seen walking her two dogs, Mr Bizzarro said in an emotional message: ‘My wife has only been home a few minutes and is tired and confused but she is fine.
‘Thank you to everyone for their help. I am happy this situation has been resolved in the best way.’
He had previously urged tourists and locals to contact police on the island if they had any information about the whereabouts of his missing wife.
Kate Barley Bizzarro, 60, was with her two dogs when she disappeared in Adeje in the south of the island last week
Kate was driving a white Smart car when she went missing
He said he was clocking up around 500 miles a day travelling around the island, and that he had even hired a helicopter to look for his wife.
She went missing at around 6pm on Wednesday, March 8, when she set out to walk their two dogs. Spanish missing persons’ platform SOS Desaparecidos described her case as ‘urgent’ in an alert it posted earlier about her disappearance.
Speaking as combed beaches and countryside with the help of their youngest son Richard, who lives in Tenerife, the dad-of-three previously said: ‘I’m desperate for news of my wife.
‘We’ve been married 41 years and have three grown-up children and this is so out of character for her.
‘The last time I saw her was around 6pm last Wednesday when she took the car and said she was going to go for a walk with our two dogs, a Yorkshire terrier called Lukey and a chihuahua called Jimmy.
‘She didn’t say where she was going or what time she’d be back but she tended to go down to a beach near the place we own here and I’ve searched that high and low without any positive results.
‘She had no problems in life, she wasn’t depressed and she’s never ever gone missing like this in all the time I’ve known her.
‘I’m praying obviously it’s not the case but that’s why I fear something bad has happened to her. This is definitely not a voluntary disappearance.’
Mr Bizzarro, who was born in Naples but met and married Kate in Brazil where her British parents were living and working at the time, had flown to Tenerife with his wife at the end of January for a two-month break.
The construction worker, who divides his time with Kate between homes in Monte Carlo and southern Tenerife, said: ‘We have three children. The youngest one who is 28 lives in Tenerife and is helping me with the search.
‘The older two are in their thirties but are flying to Tenerife later this week. One lives in Russia and the other in Monte Carlo.
Spanish missing persons’ platform SOS Desaparecidos described her case as ‘urgent’ in an alert it posted about her disappearance
‘I’ve been driving the best part of 500 miles a day round the island looking everywhere for my wife, on the coast, in the mountains, in the countryside.
‘I even went up in a helicopter I hired yesterday with a private pilot to see if that would make things easier when it came to combing the island, but it was very difficult.
‘I’m going into the police station where I first reported my wife missing every day to see if there’s progress.
‘The car she left our house in has a GPS tracker and I don’t know why they haven’t been able to find it yet.
‘There’s been no sign of the vehicle, which is a four-door white Smart Bianca and not a common car at all, and no sign of Kate or the dogs.
‘I’m going everywhere with her photo and pictures of the car and the dogs in the hope it will jog someone’s memory and they will be able to help me and the police find her with any little bit of information they can remember.’
Mr Bizzarro said Kate’s parents, who were both British, had died and her stepdad lived in Australia. Kate speaks English, Italian and Portuguese.
He said: ‘Our other two sons are going to join in the search as soon as they get here but hopefully we have some good news before they arrive.’
An initial SOS Desaparecidos appeal said: ‘Kate Barley Bizzarro aged 60 disappeared on March 8 in Adeje.’
In a second appeal marked ‘urgent’, the Canary Islands branch of the organisation SOS Canarias added: ‘Kate was accompanied by her two dogs, a white Yorkshire and a beige chihuahua.’
