Britain's most wanted woman has slipped the net again.
Fiona Mont, known as Cat and wanted in connection with a £300,000 computer fraud, is on the run with her boyfriend on the Continent after faking her suicide at Beachy Head, Eastbourne.
Intelligence reports pinpointed the fugitive's hideout in Holland and Sussex detectives passed on the information to Dutch counterparts - but they got there too late.
Officers arrived at the address on Monday and discovered she had fled eight days earlier.
Miss Mont, who has been taunting police with emails, has disappeared again.
Detective Constable Steve Skerrett, based in Steyning and heading the hunt, said: "We supplied Dutch police with Mont's address in Emmalorde, Holland, some time before she left there.
"Unfortunately, they were a few days late when they called on her and she has slipped the net again.
"We don't know where she is now. She could be anywhere, even back in this country. We're back to square one."
Sussex Police expressed no anger with their Dutch counterparts over the slip-up because police there were working on other legitimate inquiries at the time.
While police search for Miss Mont, she has been sending emails to a daily newspaper, claiming she is being persecuted by the Sussex force.
In one, said she had no intention of surrender and police would have to "apprehend me, charge me and prove I am guilty".
Miss Mont, from Hove, became the subject of a Europe-wide hunt after she disappeared while on bail.
The daughter of a former prominent Conservative in East Sussex and an Under Sheriff, Miss Mont was last seen flying out of Shoreham in a light aircraft piloted by convicted drugs dealer Graham Heskett, who is known as The Baron.
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