British health guru and TV personality Michael Mosley was found dead on Sunday on the Greek island of Symi, days after he went missing, police said. "People on a boat saw a body close to the rocky coast," Petros Vassilakis, police chief for the southern Aegean region, told AFP. The lifeless body was spotted by a television crew from Greece's ERT public channel, which was out filming in the area where the 67-year-old disappeared on Wednesday after setting out for a coastal walk on his own in the heat.
"It's devastating to have lost Michael, my wonderful, funny, kind and brilliant husband," his wife, Clare Bailey, said in a statement confirming his death. "He did an incredible climb, took the wrong route and collapsed where he couldn't be easily seen by the extensive search team," she said. Bailey Mosley thanked the "extraordinary" people on Symi who worked "tirelessly" to help find her husband, some working "from dawn till dusk unasked".
ERT reporter Aristides Miaoulis said on air one of the crew's cameramen "saw something strange near the fence, 50 metres from the sea". "We discovered it was this man..
. He was lying down (on his back)." Symi mayor Lefteris Papakalodoukas was also with the crew and confirmed they had found Mosley, who had been on holiday on the island with his wife.
"It's the body of the journalist that we have been looking for over several days," he told ERT. Papakalodoukas said Symi has been baking under "insufferable heat," and the area where Mosley was las.
