A body has been found in the search for TV and radio presenter Dr Michael Mosley on the Greek island of Symi.
The 67-year-old went missing on Wednesday after setting off on a walk from Agios Nikolaos beach.
The body - which has yet to be formally identified - was found at a small cliff on the rocky hill north-east of Pedi village, near Agia Marina beach.
Authorities had been searching for Dr Mosley in a remote mountainous area.
Symi’s mayor said the body was found as teams were searching the coastline with cameras and were approaching a cave next to Agia Marina beach.
A police source told BBC News the deceased had been dead “for a number of days”.
It’s all very sad - I think everyone was hoping he’d had something like his previous amnesia attack and he’d wandered off somewhere but Symi is pretty unforgiving either way.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A body has been found in the search for TV and radio presenter Dr Michael Mosley on the Greek island of Symi.The 67-year-old went missing on Wednesday after setting off on a walk from Agios Nikolaos beach.The body - which has yet to be formally identified - was found at a small cliff on the rocky hill north-east of Pedi village, near Agia Marina beach.Authorities had been searching for Dr Mosley in a remote mountainous area.
Symi’s mayor said the body was found as teams were searching the coastline with cameras and were approaching a cave next to Agia Marina beach.
A police source told BBC News the deceased had been dead “for a number of days”.
Greek authorities have been searching for Dr Mosley over five days, and the effort has included firefighters, dogs, helicopters, drones, local people and officers from Symi and outside the island.His four children had also joined his wife, Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, on the island.
Dr Mosley is best known for his TV programmes including Trust Me I’m a Doctor and BBC Radio 4’s Just One Thing podcast.Dr Mosley studied medicine in London and qualified as a doctor and for the last couple of decades has been working as a presenter, documentary maker, journalist and author.He has appeared on BBC One’s The One Show and ITV’s This Morning.Dr Mosley is also columnist for the Daily Mail and his TV programmes also include Channel 4 show Michael Mosley: Who Made Britain Fat?
and BBC show Trust Me, I’m A Doctor.His wife is also a doctor, author and healthy living advocate.
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What a tragedy. Why did he leave his phone behind and walk out solo after being warned about the heat?
I wonder if there really was something to those rumours about him not being a real doctor and the GMC investigating.
I wonder if there really was something to those rumours about him not being a real doctor and the GMC investigating.
He studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School and qualified as a doctor, although he has never practiced. It would only take a phone call to verify.
He certainly studied it for a bit, but he never graduated and has never been on the gmc register. He was in the same year as his wife who graduated in 1986 (she is on the register), he started working for the BBC in 1985…
He certainly studied it for a bit, but he never graduated
You may have to state your sources on this one as everything I’ve seen says he graduated.
and has never been on the gmc register.
He’s never practiced so would, presumably, not be on it.
I’m just repeating what was going round on social media a while back. His own account of when he started working for the BBC doesn’t line up with him finishing uni.
And all docs go on the gmc register during their final year (known as provisional registration), this is to allow them to do their ‘house’ jobs.
The body has not been identified. It might not be him. This is a non-story until it is identified. Surprised it was so prematurely reported.
Read between the lines. Just because the formality of identification hasn’t been stamped and filed yet doesn’t mean the journalists reporting this have no idea its him. Its clearly him, this sort of thing happens all the time. Cf “he died after a long illness” being code for “cancer”.
They could have just waited a tiny bit.
It’s a small island and dead bodies don’t turn up every day. They’d know it was him immediately, they just wouldn’t announce it until the body had been formally identified.
It has now been confirmed.
Yer I got the update. Just seams odd to go public until they had identified the body. I mean it wasn’t a long wait.
Island has a population of 2k. So if no one else has been reported missing.
