How Dr Michael Mosley’s wife described search for missing husband as ‘the longest and most unbearable days for myself and my children’ – as body is found

The wife of Dr Michael Mosley has described the search for her missing husband as ‘the longest and most excruciating days for myself and my children’ as a body is found amid the hunt for the Mail’s health guru.

Speaking earlier today’s discoveryDr. Clare Bailey noted that she had been waiting in terror for three days since her husband ‘left the beach to go for a walk’ on the charming Greek island of Symi before it suddenly disappeared.

Now say police are looking for the missing TV doctorHe investigates the discovery of a body near an area known as The Abyss.

The body was found by staff at a nearby beach bar after being alerted by the mayor who had spotted something ‘unusual’ from the sea. The body was found in Agia Marina, about a 30-minute walk from Pedi, where he was last seen.

On Saturday, a Greek fire brigade helicopter hovered over the spot where the body was found.

Doctor Clare Bailey pictured with her husband Dr Michael Mosley who went missing on the Greek island of Symi. She described the search as ‘the longest and most excruciating days for myself and my children’ as a body is found during the hunt for the Mail’s health guru.

Dr Mosley’s wife, Dr Clare Bailey (pictured together), a GP and columnist for the Mail, raised the alarm after her husband of almost 40 years failed to return from a walk

Police believe Dr Mosley was seen on CCTV in the town of Pedi before making a wrong turn along a path heading north on the island of Symi

Police arrived about 20 minutes after it was discovered – about 100 meters from the shoreline.

A short time later, a coastguard boat arrived and anchored close to the beach, while a small tender with more officers attended the scene.

Mayor Eleftherios Papakaloudoukas had accompanied the media to Agia Marina, but was on his way back to Pedi when he looked back and saw something unusual on the rocks.

He then called the beach restaurant and alerted the staff who rushed to see what he had seen with a group of British journalists who had stayed behind.

Officials said the coroner was notified and traveled from Rhodes to Symi.

The waiter who found the body, Ilias Tsavaris, said: ‘The mayor had been here to give interviews to the media and then left on a boat to return to Pedi.

‘From the sea he saw something unusual and then he called the restaurant and asked if they wanted to look at it.

“I was sent there and as I turned the gate to go up I saw the glint of a watch and then at the same time I saw the body.”

Earlier this year, Dr. Mosley and Dr. Bailey, 62, who have been married for 40 years, are on a joint theater tour and previously worked together on their famous 5:2 diet.

And it was she who raised the alarm when he failed to return home from a walk in the sweltering 36 degrees Celsius heat at 7.30pm on Wednesday, prompting local authorities to begin tracing his route overnight.

This is the photo of Dr. Mosley who was placed on a call after he went missing while on holiday in Greece on Wednesday

The seaside resort of Agia Marina, the location where a body was found

The waiter who found the body on the Greek island of Symi

Mayor of Syimi Eleftherios Papakalodouka who warned the beach resort manager after he thought he saw something ‘unusual’ from the sea

Stories show that after telling his wife he would walk to their accommodation rather than return with her and another couple in the boat, he seemed happy.

A witness to his walk through Pedi, a fishing village, said he “seemed to have a cheerful appearance.”

The English holidaymaker added: ‘I recognized him from the CCTV footage as someone walking right past me.

‘What must have stayed with me was his umbrella, which I later saw on camera images in the media. Because it was so unbearably hot on Wednesday, he used it as a parasol. Yeah, he strolled along, seemed fine.”

Dr. Mosley, 67, was one of Britain’s best-known doctors, whose revolutionary dietary advice endeared him to millions of Daily Mail readers and TV viewers.

Police first reported Dr Mosley missing at 10.30am on Thursday and by the afternoon all emergency services in Greece had joined the search on the small island of Symi.

The medic was seen leaving Saint Nicholas beach towards the town of Pedi, along a rocky path with steep sections.

CCTV footage showed him passing a cafe in the town, northeast of the holiday island of Symi.

The diet guru’s wife, Dr Clare Bailey (pictured together), a GP and also a columnist for the Mail, raised the alarm after her husband failed to return from a walk

Dr. Mosley married Clare (pictured together) in 1987, after meeting in medical school, and they shared four children together

Dr. Mosley with his wife Clare on their wedding day in 1987, almost forty years ago

The house in Symi where Dr. Mosley and his wife were staying

Firefighters take part in a search and rescue operation for Michael on the Greek island

Police believed Dr Mosley was probably walking towards the town of Symi, due west of Pedi, but took a wrong turn and ended up on a ‘dangerous’ mountain path heading north.

The coastguard searched the sea while firefighters searched the forests and hills of the remote island, with volunteers also helping.

Dr. Bailey’s fears may have been assuaged, if only marginally, by the arrival on the island of the couple’s adult children.

At least two of the siblings joined the search party, retracing part of the route their father reportedly took up a mountain.

In 2019, Dr Mosley wrote about a holiday with his wife in Cornwall when a dip in the icy sea temporarily erased his memory and landed him in hospital.

“I had no obvious signs of physical or facial weakness, nor was my speech slurred – both telltale signs of a TIA (transient ischemic attack) and a stroke,” he said. ‘I was lucid and the only thing that was clearly wrong with me was the fact that I had no memory of how I got there, or what happened to me.

Surprised, the junior doctor went out to pick up an older colleague. He did another exam and told me the good news that whatever was wrong with me, I had not had a stroke or seizure.

‘Instead, he said that I had almost certainly experienced something called transient global amnesia, and that this was caused by swimming in cold water.

Temperatures in recent days have been unbearable at times and a heat warning has been issued by local authorities (photo: rescue teams on the island)

Dr. Michael Mosley, left, pictured with his wife Dr Clare Mosley at their home in Buckinghamshire

A general view of Agia Marina, at the end of the treacherous route

A sign for the Sinterklaas beach. Dr. Mosley left the beach for Pedi on Wednesday

Agia Marina near Pedi, where police think he went

“He said it was like a migraine attack, and although my memory was severely affected, he expected it to return to normal within 24 hours.”

He added: ‘Obviously I’m glad my memory loss wasn’t more severe. And despite this experience, I won’t let it stop me from swimming in cold water in the future.’

Finally, he added, “But I’ll make sure that when I do, I always have someone with me.”