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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Island has a population of 2k. So if no one else has been reported missing.
Streetlights@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
They could have just waited a tiny bit.