THE wife of missing TV doctor Michael Mosley has bravely spoken out today to promise the family will not “lose hope”.
Dr Clare Bailey Mosley said that life has been “unbearable” since her husband vanished while holidaying on a Greek island of Symi on Wednesday.
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In a statement, Clare said: “It has been three days since Michael left the beach to go for a walk.
“The longest and most unbearable days for myself and my children.
“The search is ongoing and our family are so incredibly grateful to the people of Symi, the Greek authorities and the British Consulate who are working tirelessly to help find Michael.
“We will not lose hope.”
The mayor of Symi said that Clare had been searching the island with her British friends for any trace of the missing TV personality.
The couple’s four adult children have also arrived on Symi to help with the search.
Mosley, known for popularising the 5:2 diet and for his appearances on The One Show and This Morning, went missing after leaving Clare on Agios Nikolaos beach at 1.30pm on Wednesday.
Newly released CCTV footage has shown Mosley appearing to leave the village of Pedi at 2pm to embark on a “treacherous” three-hour trek.
The video appears to capture the 67-year-old carrying an umbrella walking towards a rocky, hilly path at roughly 2pm.
It is believed to be one of the last two CCTV sightings of Mosley that helped shift the search focus to the perilous mountain path.
Haunting CCTV shows Dr Michael Mosley’s last movements before vanishing in Greece as divers, drones & dogs join search
Search teams and Symi’s mayor both told The Sun the route can be incredibly “dangerous” and “treacherous” with no shade.
Mayor Eleftherios Papakalodouka told The Sun that Mosley had no water with him, adding: “You can’t survive in this weather.”
Today, rescue teams had centred the search on Agia Marina, 3km from Pedi where he was last seen.
The marina is only accessible by foot through a path that searchers describe as dangerous, or by water taxi.
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Police said officers, helicopters and drones have been deployed to the area as the search continues for its fourth scorching-hot day.
The mayor also insisted there is “no chance” the search will be called off until Mosley is found.
A rescuer described Mosley’s alleged decision to take the three-hour mountain path as “inexplicable”.
She told The Mirror: “The path is not easy to follow. If he took a wrong turn, he would be lost. He could be anywhere.
“It is a race against time.”
Another rescuer told the outlet: “It’s like he went up there and the earth swallowed him up.”
A third rescuer said: “I don’t think anything strange has happened to him. This is Symi: it’s a very small island and people just don’t disappear.
“There is always hope,” they told the Mail.
WHAT HAPPENED?
The TV doctor went missing on Wednesday at 1.30pm after leaving his wife and friends on Saint Nikolas beach.
He said he was feeling ill and would walk back alone.
CCTV images later emerged which show Dr Mosley in the town of Pedi, shielding himself from the sun with an umbrella.
The last sighting of Mosley was caught on CCTV at 2pm close to the entrance of a dangerous mountain path.
The route is a three-hour hike back to Symi Town, where he was staying with his wife Clare and another couple.
Mosley had not returned to his accommodation by 3pm despite temperatures soaring to 40C.
His wife raised the alarm at 7.30pm on Wednesday. His phone remained in their accommodation.
Overnight on Wednesday, local authorities began to trace Mosley’s steps but were unable to locate him.
By 12pm on Thursday, cops were scouring the coast with the help of divers, drones, firefighters, volunteers and police dogs.
Police initially said the doctor may have “fallen from a height” or lost consciousness on the short hike home from the beach.
At 7pm, a helicopter was deployed to assist in the search.
The search resumed on Friday morning where temperatures reached 48C with all of Symi’s patrol boats out searching.
Yesterday afternoon, new CCTV images of Mosley in Pedi emerged and by the evening cops shifted their search to a new mountainous route.
Mayor Papakaloudoukas added this morning that “all the community is so sad about this, [it has] never happened before”.
‘HUMAN BEINGS DON’T VANISH’
The son of a Brit who went missing on a Greek island in 2019 has urged Mosley’s family not to give up as “humans don’t just vanish”.
John Tossell, a 78-year-old from Wales, went missing on Zakynthos five years ago this month.
Tossell vanished after leaving his partner, Gillian, to hike to a monastery on Mount Skopos.
His son Gary told Sky News that Mosley’s case felt like a “cut and paste of my father”.
The Brit father was described as a “fit man” who could have easily managed the route.
Gary criticised police for calling off the search after only five days.
Despite his family continuing the search themselves, no trace of Tossell was ever found.
Gary said: “He went for a walk and he vanished into thin air…It’s the same story but a different person.”
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