A second British tourist has been found dead in the Portuguese party town of Albufeira – it comes after police found the body of Glasgow man Greg Monks earlier this week
A “naked” British tourist has been found dead in a Portuguese resort in eerily similar circumstances to the another Brit found dead this week. The man is believed to have died following a drunken fall down steps in the Old Town of Albufeira in the Algarve and it comes after the body of Greg Monks, 38, was found after he disappeared in Albufeira last month, reportedly during a stag party.
The latest alarm was raised just before 7am on Wednesday, with news of the incident only emerging today. Respected Portuguese daily Correo da Manha is reporting the tourist was “completely naked” when he was found at the bottom of the steps in an avenue called Avenida da Libertade.
Portuguese law means the autopsy results have not been made public, but an autopsy has taken place and police are understood to have ruled out any link to a crime. Authorities are said to be treating the death as a tragedy linked to excessive alcohol consumption.
The young tourist was in his twenties and had been heading to where he was staying in Albufeira. No explanation has been given as to why he might have been naked, although police have not yet confirmed he had no clothes on.
Police said the Monks’ disappearance, meanwhile, was reported to the Guarda Nacional Republicana on May 28 at around 8pm by a man who was on holiday with him. Greg, from Glasgow, had gone out drinking at bars in the raucous Albufeira strip after flying to the resort hours earlier with friends for a stag do.
Greg’s sister had urged residents in the area to check home cameras and doorbell footage between 2am and 5am on Wednesday, May 28 after it emerged the last sighting of him had been in the hill area dotted with large villas. A Portuguese police source revealed the CCTV supplied by the local homeowner had proved vital in the case. The Policia Judiciaria said the body, found on Wednesday, was located in the Cerro de Aguia area.
The police insider said today: “The GNR police force had requested help from the Polícia Judiciaria force which confirmed yesterday the missing man’s body had been found. They then got given CCTV from one of the villas in the Cerro da Aguia areas which enabled them to trace him jumping over a wall of a neighbouring property.
“With that information the searches were immediately moved to the scrubland below the houses. Sniffer dogs that were being used by the GNR were brought in again. When the dogs were put to work in the area, around 11am, they went straight to a bush where the missing man’s body was laying.”
He is thought to have jumped over a wall and fallen down a steep cliff after becoming disorientated as he tried to head back to his holiday hotel.