Dr Michael Mosley mystery deepens after body found 'just yards from safety'

Mystery surrounds the final moments of Dr Michael Mosley - after he was found just YARDS from help. The ITV, Channel 4 and BBC doctor was finally found 100 yards from the safety of a restaurant — and 150 yards from a spot searched by their four grown-up children the day before.

The four-day search for the TV doctor ended in tragedy after his body was found on rocky ground close to a beach bar on the Greek island of Symi. Fellow doctor and broadcaster, Saleyha Ahsan, one of Mosley’s co-presenters on Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, said her “heartfelt condolences and many thoughts” were with Mosley’s family.

“I think the last few days everyone was just hoping for a different scenario, [a] different outcome,” she told Sky News. “Michael is resourceful. I mean his entire career he has used his body, he’s pushed his body to extremes in the name of science, in the name of finding better health outcomes for the rest of us. I just, I think all of us were hoping for a different outcome.”

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“He is so personable and so approachable through the screen and that is an art in itself, being able to portray yourself like that,” she said. “And he is exactly like [that].” She added that he was “just so professional, but he was just so human and so passionate about what he was doing […]

"He lived and breathed his work. He was an inspiration.” Dr Clare Bailey said she and the couple’s four children took comfort in the fact that he “had almost made it”, after his body was found close to a coastal resort on Sunday.

“We’re taking comfort in the fact that he so very nearly made it. He did an incredible climb, took the wrong route and collapsed where he couldn’t be easily seen by the extensive search team.”