MISSING Scots tourist Greg Monks has been found dead on the Algarve.
The plant mechanic, 38, was discovered by police today at the bottom of a ravine after vanishing last Wednesday.
Greg, from Cambuslang, near Glasgow, disappeared in the early hours after travelling to Albufeira for a stag do with friends.
It's thought that Greg got lost and fell to his death as he tried to get back to his hotel.
A Portuguese police source said: “There is nothing at this stage to indicate this man’s death was linked in any way to a crime.
“But we need to wait for the autopsy results to conclude that is the case.
“Our belief is he lost all notion of where he was after drinking heavily and finding himself in an unfamiliar place, and that he jumped over a wall and fell to his death.
“The body was already in a state of decomposition when it was found.”
The exact spot where his body was found, and the time it was discovered have not been made public.
The autopsy results will not be made public, as is normal in Portugal.
The Policia Judiciaria police force said in a statement: “The PJ has located the body of the missing Scottish tourist in Albufeira.
“PJ police, through the Southern Directorate and with the collaboration of the Albufeira GNR police force, today located the body of a man who had been missing since May 28 in the Cerro de Aguia area of Albufeira.
“The disappearance of the 38-year-old UK citizen was reported to the Albufeira GNR at 8pm on the 28th by another man who was accompanying him on holiday in the area.
“After carrying out various enquiries and establishing the presumed route taken in the early hours of that day since the last sighting, the body was located on steep wasteland.
“After the appropriate judicial inspection, the body will be removed and taken to the nearest Institute of Forensic Medicine for an autopsy.”
It comes after Greg's sisters revealed the "alarm bells" moment after he vanished from the party hotspot.
Just hours after arriving in Portugal for the five-day stag do, he told pals that he was heading back to his holiday apartment on his own after several hours of partying and drinking.
The last official sighting of Greg was at around 3.27am on Wednesday, May 28, near the Cerro de Aguia area as Greg's last known picture was revealed.
This is more than an hour's walk west of the popular party resort where Greg is thought to have left his friends, while the Novochoro Apartments, which he had checked into on Tuesday night, are a 30-minute walk north.
His worried parents and girlfriend Nicole Ashleigh Kelso flew out to the Algarve in a bid to trace him.
Hours before his death, Greg's sisters Jillian and Carlyn told that the family have been left "worried sick".
Jillian said: "We were contacted on Wednesday afternoon asking if there was any way we could track his phone because he hadn't come home from the night before.
"This immediately raised alarm bells. It’s just not like him. He wouldn’t normally do something like this.
"It had only been twelve hours since he was seen, but we were just so worried."
She and Greg's mates then tried to report him missing to the police but "it wasn't really taken as seriously at first because it hadn't been that long", Jillian said.
But as time went on and fears for Greg's safety grew, cops have been "working day and night", "putting every resource they can" into the search for Greg.
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