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

Interesting that his wife says he went for a walk. So it’s possible he meant to go into the mountains, and not back to the villa.

Barleyrice, you just can’t leave it alone can you? Do you really think your comment helps an already inflamed situation? Your comment was hurtful and unnecessary.

How long on average before being found and altering breaking news?

I wondered this too. Or caves/underground caverns.

I’d imagine personality is hugely at play here. I’m likely projecting by commenting but it really irks me when elderly relatives cause grief in similar but less dramatic ways because they’re stubborn and lose all common sense! As a Dr I hope she mentions at some point the effect heat can have especially since their living was made being in public eye.

That would be marvellous. On a personal level its a scary reminder of the fragility of life when things like this happen. Beyond that there's clearly a great deal of fondness for him; he just strikes as being a really nice guy.
What a lift it would be for him to be located and able to tell the story 🤞

It depends what unwell means.
If my DH, a competent adult, felt a bit subpar and wanted to head back when I didn't, I'd let him. Presumably they assessed that he seemed fine to make his own way and let him. His wife is a doctor and she loves him, if she felt he was at risk she would have gone too. Not all couples live in eachother's pockets.
We have no idea at this stage whether him feeling unwell has played any part in his disappearance.

@Aquarius1234 it really depends on the news service. The BBC are often way behind.

Mornings or evenings when still light is best times for walking in hot weather summer/ holidays.
I like around 7/ 8pm this time of year.

Depends what ’feeling unwell’ (as it’s been reported) actually means. Could be anything from ‘I don’t want to sit on a beach today and I can make my excuses and head home for a cold beer and a good book’ to ‘I am beginning to feel seriously ill’. As both his partner and a medic, his wife would be well placed to make a call about whether he needed accompanying or not.

Yeh probably 2 hours behind.

That's really unkind. And she doesnt have to do anything other than look after herself and her kids right now

Not hard to imagine that they might not realize that the wasn't ideal is it?

People make mistakes,sadly those mistakes might turn out to have disastrous consequences. Let's hope that's not the case here

You can stay and have opinions just as much as the ones having a go at you @Ilikeadrink14.

Some people are like a dog with a bone, it’s just the way they are.

Sorry about your husband, you must be so sad.

I'm so sad about this, and trying to remain hopeful that he is found today. A report, I was reading earlier, said that there were shepherds huts in the area, and maybe he might be found in one of them.

It has made me reflect on our very safe/sanitised lives. I certainly don't want to criticise anyone for being adventurous. 99% of the time, we get lucky. But not always.

In the cctv from the latest BBC report, he is striding purposefully and looks in good form. He doesn’t appear unwell or disorientated. He probably continued like that as far as he could then maybe something sudden happened like he fell or stumbled and hurt himself or there was a medical emergency (literally just happened to a family member of mine who collapsed with a seizure with no warning.) Surely there should be news today.

So much victim blaming, and victim shaming on this thread.

The boat trip back Symi wasn’t due for a while, a couple of hours. Perhaps he’d had enough sun and didn’t fancy going on a boat again so opted for the walk/bus option which should’ve been quick and straightforward. Thats not necessarily the same as feeling so ill that he needed escorting home.

It's a perfectly valid comment and similar to what I wrote up thread.

He was with his wife and another couple and it's odd that no one went back with him especially his wife given he had previously suffered a medical episode after going swimming.

No way on earth would I have not accompanied my husband if he said he had been feeling unwell.

Unless they had a silly tiff and the police have said to keep that quiet and just say he felt unwell.

Clearly she wasn’t well placed to judge. They’d literally just arrived weren’t acclimatised and he has heart problems. A simple text me when you’ve arrived is bare minimum!! Don’t need medical training to understand that.

You’re like a dog with a bone @barleyrice.
Just stop.

Stop now. If you've got nothing of value to add to the discussion then say nothing. This thread isn't about you and your judgement of other people's opinions. Stop attention seeking.

Because we weren't there! We don't know the true situation. We don't know what happened. They might have offered and he'd said oh no I'll be fine. They have done nothing to be ashamed of and need support not criticism

I don’t think he has heart problems. He had diabetes and fatty liver disease years ago but he resolved that.

And his wife says he went for a walk.

Hindsight is fabulous and I'm sure there are many occasions when we all wish we'd had it.