Son of tycoon is probed over missing woman
A MULTIMILLIONAIRE property developer’s son is being investigated over the disappearance of a woman from a Spanish club popular with Premiership footballers and soap stars.
Privately educated Westley Capper, 37, has admitted driving Agnese Klavina, 30, away from the nightspot in the upmarket Costa del Sol resort of Puerto Banus.
Police believe she was forced into the vehicle. Capper was summonsed to court on Monday, but refused to be questioned.
Miss Klavina disappeared on September 6 last year after leaving trendy Aqwa Mist – where footballer Ashley Cole, Hollywood star Eva Longoria and boxer Amir Khan have all partied.
A judge was last night expected to order a fresh round of DNA testing after hopes of an early breakthrough in the case foundered.
Capper, whose Essex-born father John specialises in buying and selling luxury properties around the world, has had travel restrictions imposed on him while the investigation continues.
Co-accused Craig Porter, 33, also declined to answer questions during the closed court hearing in Marbella. The two men left in an English-plated Range Rover they had parked in a disabled bay nearby.
Latvian-born Miss Klavina, whose boyfriend Michael Millis is a former owner of London nightclub Westbourne Studios, left Aqwa Mist with Capper and Porter.
Capper has claimed he dropped her off in a Mercedes near a flat she was staying at for the summer – after leaving her London home of the past five years. Porter, of Liverpool, said he fell asleep on the back seat of the car before the drop-off.
Forensic experts found a blonde human hair in the boot of the vehicle but initial tests failed to identify it. Further tests are expected to be ordered on the hair and on blood discovered in a motorboat belonging to Capper’s family.
The vessel was seized in a port in the province of Murcia, around 300 miles east of Marbella. Authorities are probing the possibility Miss Klavina was killed and her body thrown into the sea from the boat, which left a port in nearby Fuengirola days after she vanished.
Capper and Porter are being investigated on suspicion of her detention – after a psychologist claimed her facial expressions in CCTV footage show she did not leave the club voluntarily.
Neither suspect has yet been formally charged with any crime.