Body found in search for missing Scot Greg Monks a week after he vanished on stag do in Portugal
MISSING Scots tourist Greg Monks has reportedly been found dead on the Algarve.
The 38-year-old is said to have been found at the bottom of a ravine, “a long way from the spot where he was last seen.”
Respected Portuguese daily Correio da Manha is reporting that Portugal’s Policia Judiciaria force is at the scene.
Greg, from Cambuslang, near Glasgow, vanished in the early hours of last Wednesday morning after travelling to Albufeira for a stag do with friends.
The plant mechanic’s family and police are yet to comment.
It comes after Greg’s sisters revealed the “alarm bells” moment after he vanished from the party hotspot.
Just hours after arriving in Portugal for the five-day stag do, he told pals that he was heading back to his holiday apartment on his own after several hours of partying and drinking.
The last official sighting of Greg was at around 3.27am on Wednesday, May 28, near the Cerro de Aguia area as Greg’s last known picture was revealed.
This is more than an hour’s walk west of the popular party resort where Greg is thought to have left his friends, while the Novochoro Apartments, which he had checked into on Tuesday night, are a 30-minute walk north.
His worried parents and girlfriend Nicole Ashleigh Kelso flew out to the Algarve in a bid to trace him.
Hours before his death, Greg’s sisters Jillian and Carlyn told Sky News that the family have been left “worried sick”.
Jillian said: “We were contacted on Wednesday afternoon asking if there was any way we could track his phone because he hadn’t come home from the night before.
“This immediately raised alarm bells. It’s just not like him. He wouldn’t normally do something like this.
“It had only been twelve hours since he was seen, but we were just so worried.”
She and Greg’s mates then tried to report him missing to the police but “it wasn’t really taken as seriously at first because it hadn’t been that long”, Jillian said.
But as time went on and fears for Greg’s safety grew, cops have been “working day and night”, “putting every resource they can” into the search for Greg.