The Greek authorities found the lifeless body of British presenter and producer Michael Mosley this Sunday on the Greek island of Symi, public broadcaster ERT reported.
Mosley, 67, remained missing since last Wednesday and the Police in Symi, where he was on vacation, had launched an extensive search operation to locate him.
This morning his body was found next to a rocky slope, about fifty meters from the Ayía Marina beach, where He apparently stumbled and fell to his death.
According to police sources told private television SKAI, The presenter’s body presents a head injury due to the fallwhile a first identification could be made through the clothes he was wearing, which was what he was wearing on the day of his disappearance.
Lefteris Papakalodoukas, the island’s mayor, told The Associated Press that he was on the boat with journalists when they saw a body about 20 meters above Agia Marina beach. “We focused the cameras and saw that it was him”.
“It was a very difficult route, (Mosley) went through all the dangerous points,” the mayor told private television ANTENNA, while emphasizing that last Wednesday there was extreme heat on the island, with temperatures that reached 47 degrees.
The British media Daily Mail spoke to the waiter who found the presenter’s body and commented “The mayor had been here to give interviews to the media and then left on a boat to return to Pedi. “He saw something unusual from the sea and then called the restaurant and asked them to check it.”
“They sent me there and when I turned the fence to go up I saw a flash of a clock and then I saw the body at the same time,” he declared.
The last time the British man was seen that day, he was preparing to take a trip from Pedi beach to Ayía Marina beach, next to which he was found.
Mosley, a medical graduate, was famous in the UK for his regular appearances on television and radio and for his column in the Daily Mail newspaper, and also produced documentaries for the BBC.
He became known internationally for his 2013 book “The Fast Diet,” which he co-authored with journalist Mimi Spencer, which promised to help people lose weight quickly by minimizing their calorie intake two days a week and eating healthily on the other days. five.
Mosley often pushed his body to extremes to see the effects of his diets, and also lived with tapeworms in his digestive system for six weeks for a BBC documentary.
Mosley had four children with his wife, Clare Bailey Mosley, who is also a doctor, author and health columnist.
(With information from EFE and AP)
