Hope of finding Dom Phillips alive has gone, say mother-in-law and wife

The mother-in-law of Dom Phillips embraces a girl during a protest after his disappearance. Photograph: Bruna Prado/AP

The wife and mother-in-law of the missing British journalist Dom Phillips have said their hopes of finding him alive had gone, in a heartfelt and heart-breaking message that paid tribute to him and his travelling companion Bruno Pereira.

Phillips, a longtime contributor to the Guardian, and Pereira, an experienced Indigenous advocate, went missing on 5 June in a remote part of the western Amazon.