Thread 2 - Michael Mosley missing after disappearing on holiday walk

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Following on from thread 1, linked below.

Let's hope the CCTV / sighting in town gives a glimmer of home that he made the walk from the beach to town ok.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5090880-michael-moseley-missing-after-disappearing-on-holiday-walk?page=10&reply=135846185

There is no such thing as the wrong area. They don’t have the gift of hindsight they need to search all areas till they find him. They’ve no idea where he is.

Surely if he left for some other island the boatman/woman would know this.

There seem to be two routes to Symi from Pedi (why do I keep thinking of feet here, sorry...). One overland, and one longer one partly overland and then along the coast.

As others have said, the concentration of the search was from the beach to Pedi, whereas it appears the search should have been from Pedi to Symi, but the beach was the last sighting by his wife/companions so it made sense at the time.

I'm puzzled as to why the CCTV wasn't identified initially, but probably because the search was focused in the wrong place at first, and then when there was no result it moved to Pedi, and there he was found on CCTV.

No one knows what happened, but the longer time goes on, you'd have to think the worst, but at the same time hope for the best too.

Just joining for updates.

Keep checking the news hoping he is found safe.

Why would the other man come forward? Presumably he doesn't know Michael or the family and is in no way connected to the disappearance, he's just a random man out for dinner with friends/family, I wouldn't want to speak to the press or get involved if I were him🤷‍♀️

I seriously wonder if he’s been abducted for some unfathomable reason? The fact that there’s absolutely no sign of him is very strange. If he’d had an accident surely he would have been found by now. It’s not a huge area and drones/heliicopter/dogs haven’t found anything at all.

As unlikely as I think this is, I'm hoping too. It does not look good at all but I've really admired him for a long time and I really hope he is found soon.

His poor wife and children must be absolutely frantic.

The busy road route and the coastal routes are different routes.

He lost his memory once before straight after swimming, I wonder if that happened again and he wandered off and got lost. I really really hope he's ok, I have a lot of respect for him and his family will be beside themselves.

It's possible. Didn't Stephen Fry do this once?

It does seem strange he left the beach alone with a rather longer journey than we first anticipated
It wasn’t exactly I’m just nipping back to the villa
Very sad

It happened to me years ago, not in Greece though.

I was driven to a very dangerous area and told to hand over all cash/valuables or I'd be dumped there, I'd have been unlikely to make it out of that particular area alive. I handed everything over except my passport and was dumped at the airport thank god!

And some of those people are very hardened criminals.

They wouldn't think twice about stealing money, and then killing someone to get rid of them.

It's happened before.

That is the worst case scenario. But we need to be realistic of what can happen

Would a taxi robbery/kidnapping really happen on an island with 2,500 residents??

Yes he did.

I suppose the v small island mitigates against ‘rogue taxi’ theory? Unless ‘rogue water taxi’.

Katie Price was assaulted & robbed I believe via rogue taxi event. It’s not a vanishingly rare event unfortunately.

This new footage definitely changes things a bit and makes me wonder if someone has attacked him or something.

I remember him saying this too.,

And bear in mind, if the other man is not a brit he may not have seen our media coverage and I doubt news channels outside of the UK / Greece are reporting on it.

Thank you for your replies @anunlikelyseahorse

I think since the wife discounted the other man he doesn’t need to come forward. The restaurant is also not releasing the footage of the other man. I guess they can’t as it’s said to not be him.

@AhBiscuits as someone else said upthread does he have a following in Greece? Is it possible he was targeted as wealthy. Was he meeting someone if it was him at Cafe? Seen with a woman. Seems fetched. A ‘rogue taxi’ event not so much but the island feels too small for this to be really viable. Who knows though.

It is reported in Greece. That was said on the first day. Police everywhere. It’s a small place.

@Choux previously posted upthread that there is a gap in the Pedi-Symi bus timetable in the afternoon (found from an April 2024 travel blog).

This timetable (photo posted on another blog in 2023) appears to show that neither the 3pm Symi-Pedi nor the 3.30pm Pedi-Symi run (both have apparently been covered up). This might be expected to make the 2.30 Pedi-Symi bus especially busy, which might be an explanation if indeed MM tried and failed to get onto it.

With no bus then until 4.30pm he might well have been tempted by a taxi.

This makes sense, although more sinister than one would hope for.