Police had been searching for the 28-year-old since Friday after relatives raised the alarm and said they had been unable to contact him.
The search in the area around the village of Saboia near the town of Odemira just above the Algarve in Portugal 's Alentejo region was called off yesterday following the grim discovery.Officials have so far been unable to confirm exactly where the unnamed Brit's body was found.
But the search is understood to have focused on the area around the rural property where the dead man was spending time before being expanded to dense woodland close to the banks of the Mira River. Earlier this month a 48-year-old British man named only as Steven Michael B was found dead more than a week after Spanish mountain rescue police were mobilised to help look for him near the northern Spanish village of Las Salas.
Well-placed sources said ahead of an autopsy they weren't looking for anyone else in connection with keen mountaineer Steven's death. On June 27 it emerged he had been found dead close to the Aspe Peak, a mountain in the western Pyrenees of Huesca on the western side of the Aragon Valley. The Civil Guard in Huesca had received a message from the UK's Interpol office in Manchester giving them the coordinates of an SOS wristband the hiker was wearing.
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