Mystery as Brit found dead at bottom of cliff on Greek island two weeks after last being seen reading book in restaurant
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a Brit tourist whose body was found at the bottom of a cliff on a remote Greek island.
Tragic Susan Hart, 75, was last seen reading a book at a restaurant in Kalymnos before she suddenly disappeared on April 30.
She had been holidaying in the popular rock climbing location with her husband, who she had frequently travelled to Greece with.
The pair – who were both keen climbers – reportedly left their hotel with a friend to visit the secluded island of Telendos for a hike.
Susan, who suffered from dementia, was wearing hiking boots and other outdoor gear when she went missing.
The gran-of-four later decided to sit out the activity due to her health problems after arriving in Telendos.
The pensioner, who lived in Switzerland with her spouse, decided to sit in a small restaurant in the port area to read a book while waiting for her husband and their pal.
But she seemingly left the eatery after a few hours while the duo were still out climbing and vanished.
Officials launched an extensive two week search for the mum, aided by volunteers and the coast guard.
Her UK-based family, including one of her three daughters Ruth Landale, also flew out to join the hunt.
They urged people to join the hunt while warning that their mum “may be disorientated or dehydrated.”
Susan’s body was then sadly discovered on May 16 in an obscure area in Agia Triada, over 16 miles away from Telendos.
Greece’s EMAK rescue teams rushed to the spot to recover her body.
Susan’s daughter previously thanked locals in Kalymnos for “being so kind and willing to help”, while slamming the police‘s handling of the case.
In a Facebook post from May 13 detailing her mum’s disappearance, Ruth let rip at the island’s cops for their alleged mismanagement.
She claimed officers insisted search and rescue dogs were joining the search, but they still hadn’t been deployed after over a week.
The devastated daughter wrote: “They told our stepfather he had to organise the dog search and rescue team privately. They arrived on May 9th.
“Three days ago the police told us that specialist divers would come and search underwater.
“Yesterday evening the police told us HQ in Athens would not approve the divers and we had to hire some privately, which we did.
“If we had known these were empty promises and we had to do things ourselves, we could have organised teams on day one.”
Ruth went on to allege her family were given the go-ahead to review CCTV footage of the area Susan disappeared in, only for cops to “suddenly deny them access.”
She pleaded: “Someone, somewhere must have seen something. People don’t just vanish with no trace in such a small community.
“Mum has dementia and is very vulnerable. We need to find her, please help us.”
Baffled officials are now working to determine how the Brit, who they said was well-known in the area, ended up at the bottom of the cliff.
Yannis Zounis, President of the Anubis Rescue Team Volunteer Search and Rescue Team, said: “Our dogs have located the site at Telendo on a steep hillside.
“The woman had been going for the last ten years on holiday with her husband, they knew her in the area.
“Her husband had gone with a climbing group and they had left her waiting in a tavern.
“But they got lost and instead of coming at one as they had told her, they came at five. It was going around the port.”