THE devastated father of missing Amelia Bambridge has said he thinks she has been snatched.

Phil Bambridge, a teacher in Vietnam, rubbished Cambodian police claims that Amelia, 21, had drowned during a night time swim.

Volunteers and police continue to search the holiday isle of Koh Rong where Amelia, from Worthing, disappeared.

Mr Bambridge joined her mother Linda and brother Harry – who flew out from Worthing at the weekend – in the efforts to scour every part of the 78sqkm island.

The former Bhasvic student disappeared after a beach party last Wednesday.

Mr Bambridge told Sky News: “We were getting conflicting times of when she got there.

“I don’t think she’s in the sea, I think she’s inland somewhere.

“I think someone’s taken her. I don’t think she’s had an accident, if she’d had an accident she would have been found.”

The last known picture of Amelia, taken just hours before her disappearance, was released to the media yesterday.

It shows her smiling with friends around a campfire.

Contrary to Mr Bambridge’s theory, the island’s governor Kouch Chamroeun, believes she may have drowned.

He said: “There is a high suspicion that she may have drowned.

“Looking at her phone, she has taken pictures and posted online until 3.23am.”

She was due to check out of her youth hostel at noon on Friday to leave the island later in the afternoon with a friend.

But ten hours later, her mother Linda was told by the hostel’s manager that her daughter had “been declared officially missing”.

She had actually been missing since 3am on Wednesday.

CCTV from the walkways near the beach show Amelia walking to the party on the east side of the island at about 2am.

But it does not show her walking back to the hostel.

Amelia’s backpack was found on Thursday morning on rocks by the sea.

It has been reported that a Cambodian official said a local man was talking to police officers.

He had allegedly been subject to complaints by women on the island.