It’s a small island and dead bodies don’t turn up every day. They’d know it was him immediately, they just wouldn’t announce it until the body had been formally identified.
It has now been confirmed.
Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter
jabjoe@feddit.uk 5 months ago
The body has not been identified. It might not be him. This is a non-story until it is identified. Surprised it was so prematurely reported.
Emperor@feddit.uk 5 months ago
jabjoe@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Yer I got the update. Just seams odd to go public until they had identified the body. I mean it wasn’t a long wait.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Island has a population of 2k. So if no one else has been reported missing.
Streetlights@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Read between the lines. Just because the formality of identification hasn’t been stamped and filed yet doesn’t mean the journalists reporting this have no idea its him. Its clearly him, this sort of thing happens all the time. Cf “he died after a long illness” being code for “cancer”.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 5 months ago
They could have just waited a tiny bit.