‘No trace’ of TV doctor Michael Mosley after going missing on Symi in Greece – latest

A friend of the person Mosley was staying with said she was struggling to understand how anyone could get lost on the part of the island he was believed to be on.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Drive programme, she said: “It’s a road that sort of heads over the mountain side but it’s been recently widened and there is only one route, so it’s not possible to lose your way.

“So, it is probably a 20-minute walk down the side of the mountain, but it’s not overly rugged or something that would be seen to be too dangerous, it’s something that tourists do every day in the summer.

“I’m having trouble understanding how you could get lost.”

A woman who gave her name only as Irini, and who works at Kamares coffee shop on Pedi Beach, said on Thursday: “They came, the police, with the coast police and firemen, and the rescue team, to carry out the investigation, but I don’t think that anything has been found yet.”

Another woman in the area said Mosley’s disappearance was “strange” as the path he was thought to be on is “clear”.

She said: “It’s a quiet place … if you see the map of the area it’s a clear path, it’s nothing dangerous, many people go every day, every few minutes, that’s the reason it’s very strange because it’s a clear path.”

On Wednesday afternoon, his wife Dr Clare Bailey raised the alarm when Mosley failed to return to their hotel after going for a walk on the Dodecanese island of Symi.

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Dr Michael Mosley was holidaying with his wife, Dr Claire Bailey, when he decided to leave Saint Nikolas beach by himself on Wednesday afternoon.

He was last seen heading onto the coastal path back to the nearby town of Pedi wearing a pair of shorts, a blue polo shirt, baseball cap and sunglasses.

The walk is supposed to take 20 minutes, but when he did not return as expected his wife raised the alarm at 7:30pm.

Authorities have since launched a rescue operation but found “no trace” of the father-of-four.

More officers are set to join the search for missing TV doctor and columnist Michael Mosley on the Greek island of Symi today.

Local police said late on Thursday that the search had paused for the night but “more men will be coming” on Friday morning.

Search teams deployed a drone and then a helicopter as part of the operation yesterday afternoon and evening, but have so far found “no trace” of Mosley on the island.

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Before turning to the health sector, Mosley became a banker in London following an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at the New College, Oxford.

After two years in banking, he moved into medicine and studied medical psychology at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, where he qualified as a doctor.

Mosley subsequently became disillusioned with psychiatry and segwayed into television when he joined the BBC’s trainee assistant producer scheme.

For the past 25 years, he has been working as a documentary maker and science journalist. Currently, he hosts the Just One Thing podcast for the BBC and makes regular appearances on programmes like This Morning and The One Show.

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Greek police are considering all options as they continue their search for missing TV Doctor Michael Mosley.

“He may have slipped and fallen, perhaps because of a heart attack along the way,” a police source told the Daily Mail. “Nothing at this stage can be ruled out.”

The source added: “We are focusing on the area of the path we believe Michael would have taken from the beach in Ayios Nikolaos to Pedi but as so much time has elapsed since he went missing we have also expanded our search to other parts of the island.

“Right now there are four police, eight firemen, a drone and seven volunteers involved in the operation.”

This is what is thought to be the last picture taken of Dr Michael Mosley before he went missing on the Greek island of Symi on Wednesday.

The TV presenter was pictured wearing a blue shirt with matching cargo shorts and a baseball cap as he prepared to leave the beach he was last seen on.

Loved ones circulated the picture pleading for sightings of the diet-guru after he failed to return to his holiday accomodation on Thursday morning.

Wednesday 1.30pm:  Dr Michael Mosley was last seen leaving  Saint Nikolas beach at 1:30pm – believed to be setting off on the coastal path back to nearby Pedi.

Wednesday 7.30pm: Dr Mosley’s wife Dr Clair Bailey raises the alarm after he failed to return.

Overnight Wednesday: Local authorities begin tracing Mosley’s route overnight but were unable to find him.

Thursday 11am: Post shared to a Facebook group Friends of Symi describing Mosley and asking locals to look for him.

Midday Thursday: By midday on Thursday Greek authorities were scouring the coast with drones, a helicopter and the fire brigade. The search was extended from the immediate area of his disappearance.

The UK Foreign Office are “supporting” Dr Michael Mosley’s family as the search for the missing TV presenter continues in Greece.

A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “We are supporting the family of a British man who is missing in Greece and are in contact with the local authorities.”

Dr Mosley was on holiday on the Greek island of Symi with his wife, Dr Clare Bailey, when he went missing on Wednesday afternoon.

The couple have four children.