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 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. The tourist was reportedly found at the bottom of the steps in an avenue called Avenida da Libertade.
Although the news only emerged today, that man’s body was made around 7am on Wednesday, some four hours before Greg Monks’ body was discovered. A source said: “A local woman living in an apartment block where this younger British man’s body was found at the back raised the alarm.
“It was just before 7am so a little over four hours before the Scots tourist who had been missing for a week was found dead. The younger man was found fully dressed with all his belongings, not naked as has been reported in the Portuguese press. He was found dead at the back of a residential building.”
Another said: “He was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. What we found out before the PJ took over was that he had been drinking with friends and at some point left them and walked off alone. None of the friends realised he had gone. It looked from an initial investigation as if he had jumped over a wall from a high area near the Old Town in Albufeira, not realising there was a sheer drop, and smashed his head on a concrete structure below at the bottom of the drop down a steep embankment.”
The PJ police force could not be reached for an immediate comment this afternoon. The apartment complex is understood to be by Avenida da Liberdade, close to one of Albufeira’s party areas in the Old Town.
Portuguese law means the autopsy results have not been made public, but one has taken place and police are understood to have ruled out any link to a crime, according to Correo da Manha. Authorities are said to be treating the death as a tragedy linked to excessive alcohol consumption.
The young tourist was in his 20s and had been heading to where he was staying in Albufeira.
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.