Dr Michael Mosley: After a painstaking four-day search, TV doctor’s body was found just metres from safety at beach resort
It is the strangest of scenes at the tiny resort on Agia beach.
Holidaygoers spread out on sunbeds, people swim in the Mediterranean turquoise sea and the only noise is from waves lapping up against the rocks.
A wired fence surrounds the resort, the only access at a small gate by the sea on the northern tip.
Just outside the perimeter, two men stand over a body, which Greek officials say is that of Dr Michael Mosley.
A major search operation was launched to find the doctor
The body found in the search for the renowned doctor is yet to be formally identified
He’d been missing for four days and police said they believed he had walked north from Pedi marina in the direction of Agia beach.
For four days, ground search teams and a helicopter had painstakingly searched this area. They were convinced Dr Mosley was walking towards the resort.
Dr Mosley went missing on Wednesday when he failed to return from a walk
In the end it was a cameraman from a Greek television channel who found him.
Antonios Mystilovlou told us he was on a boat this morning and thought he had seen something in the rocks.
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He returned to the marina about 10 minutes away and looked more closely at his footage before realising what he was looking it.
A coastguard boat took the body to Rhodes for a post-mortem
“There was the body. He was laying down with his hand on his belly and he’s carrying his bag in his other hand,” he told Sky News.
Mr Mystilovlou said the body was about 50 metres from the sea.
“I think he was planning to get down and got tired, dizzy, I don’t know… sat down and fainted, that’s my guess.
“This is a very, very sad ending for him and his family.”
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Mr Mystilovlou holds back tears as he acknowledges the grief this news will no doubt bring to Dr Mosley’s family.
It is the sentiment echoed by a man in charge of the volunteer crisis rescue team. As he perches on a sun bed metres away from the body, a Greek coastguard official consoles him.
“A man died but it took so long to find him,” the rescue team chief says.
Sadiya Chowdhury at the scene of the recovery efforts
Just after 2pm, a coroner arrives from Rhodes. She and her team take photos of the scene before carefully wrapping the body in an orange cloth.
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A coastguard boat is waiting at the shore to take the body to Rhodes for a post-mortem and formal identification.
It takes about half an hour to gently lift it on to a stretcher and carry it 50 metres down to the sea.
A journey Dr Mosley never ended up making himself.
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
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