Michael Mosley's children fly out to Greece to join desperate search for missing TV doctor
7 June 2024, 15:04 | Updated: 7 June 2024, 16:49
The children of Michael Mosley have flown out to the Greek island of Symi as the search continues to find the missing TV doctor.
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Alexander, Jack, Daniel and Katherine are understood to be planning to retrace his last known steps in a bid to help discover what happened, according to The Telegraph.
There are concerns the TV and radio presenter may have "fallen from a height" after he set off on a hike in the Pedi area at around 1.30pm on Wednesday.
His wife, Dr Clare Bailey, 62, raised the alarm after he failed to return back to their accommodation hours after he set off for the hike along St Nicholas Beach.
Divers, drones, sniffer dogs, helicopters and emergency services are looking for the 67-year-old in the Pedi area.
It comes after Eleftherios Papakalodoukas, the mayor of Symi, told LBC that Dr Mosley may have fainted and fallen off a cliff due to high temperatures.
Mr Papakalodoukas said the hike would have been dangerous, as temperatures reached 35C on Wednesday.
A yellow weather warning is in place for the region, adding to concerns.
The risk would have been heightened if he did not have any water with him, and he may have suffered dehydration.He said there were “very high cliffs” and rocky terrain on the route from St Nicholas Beach to Pedi.
"We have looked everywhere but we can’t find him," he said.
He added that the search and rescue operation would continue for five days, after which they will have to give up on efforts to find Dr Mosley unless they receive more support from the Greek or British authorities.
Mr Papakalodoukas also said that it would be "impossible" for Dr Mosley to still be in the same area of Symi."It is a very small, controlled area, full of people.
So if something happened to him there, we would have found him by now," he said.An FCDO spokesperson said: “We are supporting the family of a British man who is missing in Greece and are in contact with the local authorities.”
Addressing the TV doctor's disappearance, Senior Police Spokesman Constantina Dimoglidou said: "He was at the beach of Ag. Nikolas with another couple when he decided to go back to his home in the area of Pedi of Symi.
"It was around 1.30pm and he forgot his phone at the beach. Any and every attempt to track him down has not produced any result."We have now asked the fire brigade to assist in the operation in the case that he may have slipped, tripped, fallen, even bitten by a snake, remaining injured somewhere.
"There is just no trace of him. None whatsoever and that means that for us at least, every potential scenario is open and being investigated."
Dr Mosley is credited with raising the popularity of the 5:2 intermittent fasting diet, where people are encouraged to fast for two days per week.
Broadcaster Jeremy Vine sent a message of support to the doctor's family. He wrote: "I'm praying this lovely man is found and thinking of Claire [sic] and the whole Mosley family."
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Symi is part of the Dodecanese island group and sits about 12 miles north-west of Rhodes.
It has a population of approximately 2,600 people.
The majority of its beaches are remote and people are advised to take boats to visit them.
