British man found dead near Portugal holiday home as police spotted with sniffer dogs

28 July 2024 , 15:53

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British man found dead near Portugal holiday home as police spotted with sniffer dogs

The unnamed 28-year-old Brit was reported missing form his holiday home in Saboia near the town of Odemira in Portugal’s Alentejo region, before the grim discovery was made

A British man reported missing in Portugal on Friday has been found dead close to his holiday home in Portugal.

Relatives of the as of yet unnamed man raised the alarm when they were unable to contact him, sparking a police search. Officers scoured the area around the village of Saboia, near the town of Odemira in Portugal’s Alentejo region. 

It was called off yesterday following the grim discovery as officers were joined by firefighters, drones and sniffer dog. Officers did not share the cause of death, but it was not thought to have been "crime related". The search is understood to have focused on the area around the rural property where the dead man was spending time before being expanded to dense woodland close to the banks of the Mira River.

Local reports said the British man, who is understood to have travelled to the holiday home every year, had unspecified “health problems.” Villagers said he was not well-known in the area. Although the police search began on Friday, he is thought to have been reported missing two days earlier. 

Earlier this month a 48-year-old British man named only as Steven Michael B was found dead more than a week after Spanish mountain rescue police were mobilised to help look for him near the northern Spanish village of Las Salas. The 48-year-old vanished on July 11 after a row with his wife and was found on July 21 in the village church bell tower. 

Well-placed sources said ahead of an autopsy they weren’t looking for anyone else in connection with keen mountaineer Steven’s death. Last month a missing British hiker was found dead in the Spanish Pyrenees. 

Police and other emergency services had been searching for the 70-year-old Londoner after he disappeared on June 24. On June 27 it emerged he had been found dead close to the Aspe Peak, a mountain in the western Pyrenees of Huesca on the western side of the Aragon Valley. The 8,678ft peak towers over the Spanish ski resort of Candanchu and the Somport pass on the border with France.

The three Greim officers who found the unnamed hiker’s body informed a police helicopter which was in the area so he could be transferred to a nearby mountain refuge and handed over to funeral parlour workers. The dead man is understood to have been walking between the Lizara and Candanchu mountain refuges.

James Smith