British tourist found dead in Algarve
The alarm was raised around 7am this morning at the Orada Tourist Apartments near Albufeira Marina in Portugal.
The man, 30, travelled there for a vacation and it thought to have been staying with a friend, who alerted emergency services.
Respected Portuguese daily Correio da Mana is reporting the whereabouts of the friend, whose nationality has not yet been made public, is not known.
Portugal’s GNR police force were the first force alerted but the investigation has now been handed over to the country’s Policia Judiciaria force.
As well as police, firefighters and ambulance workers were also mobilised as part of the emergency response. The victim was declared dead at the scene.
Police are now investigating the circumstances of the death.
Portuguese police have confirmed the dead man was a 30-year-old British national who was on holiday.
The four-star apartment complex has an outdoor pool and 220 apartments plus a reception area that is staffed 24/7.
A well-placed source close to the ongoing investigation said: “The British man’s body was found on the floor by the toilet door in his apartment. There was a lot of vomit around him”.
The GNR force took a call around 7am this morning from an English speaker they believe was a friend saying a man was probably dead in the flat.
But that same person simply then disappeared and the police can’t find him at the moment which is what’s odd about all of this and why the PJ police were called in.
The dead man had been due to leave the apartment this morning so was probably going to fly back to the UK and investigators are trying to confirm it was his friend who called them and whether he ended up just going to Faro Airport after making the emergency call.
They find it all very weird that he didn’t realise he needed to stay around after making the call as the person who phoned the emergency services.
Another source added: “There are no obvious signs of any violence in the apartment or anything pointing to the man’s death being the result of a crime”.
But a post-mortem has yet to take place and the Policia Judiciaria will carry out a full forensic examination of the apartment and speak to reception and ask for CCTV footage. Officers will also try to track down and speak to the person that called.
Police sources said the dead man was on a “short break” to Portugal and he is understood to have travelled with only a small suitcase.
