A ‘naked’ British tourist has been found dead on the Algarve, just days after another Brit’s body was discovered following his mystery disappearance during a stag do.
The man, said to be 21, was discovered shortly before 7am in the party resort of Albufeira on Wednesday.
Respected Portuguese daily Correo da Manha is reporting the tourist was ‘completely naked’ when he was found at the bottom of the steps in an avenue called Avenida da Libertade.
An autopsy has already taken place but the results have not been made public.
Portuguese police are understood to have ruled out any link to a crime and are said to be treating the death as a tragedy linked to excessive alcohol consumption.
It was not immediately clear today where the tourist, who is aged in his twenties, had been heading from and to and whether he was staying at a hotel in Albufeira.
No explanation has been given as to why he might have been naked, although police have not yet confirmed he had no clothes on.
It comes after Scot Greg Monks, 38, from Glasgow, disappeared in the same resort on a stag do.
Greg Monks, 38, (pictured with his girlfriend) was previously found dead in a ravine – some eight days after he vanished from the strip during a pal’s stag do
Albufeira was a once family-focused resort in Portugal’s Algarve region but it is now home to excessive partying
Albufeira in Portugal’s Algarve region is facing an exodus unless it cracks down on excessive partying
He is thought to have jumped over a wall and fallen down a steep cliff after becoming disorientated as he tried to head back to his holiday hotel.
‘He’s [Mr Monks] another victim of the strip,’ one local hotel worker told MailOnline this week.
‘It encourages heavy drinking and drugs are too easily available, it’s easy to lose control.
‘Brits come on stag dos and buy drugs straight away, and have no idea what they are cut with, there are some really dangerous people here.’
There is no suggestion that Mr Monks had taken drugs on the night he disappeared.
The worker, who asked not to be named over fear of reprisals, said he believes he may have seen Mr Monks walking alone shortly before 2am on the night he vanished.
‘He seemed really intoxicated and was carrying a traffic sign,’ he recalled, ‘I was scared to approach him but now I feel really bad, because if it was him I could have helped.’
The local said he informed the Scot’s family of what he saw when he came across the missing person’s report.
Tributes poured in for plant mechanic Mr Monks, who was described as an ‘amazing guy’
Police keep a watchful eye on the party strip in Albufeira in Portgual
Albufeira in Portugal is a popular spot for hen and stag dos, with locals becoming frustrated with British tourists
These were the first pictures of the scrub-land where Greg Monks’ body was found on the Algarve after a week-long search
Another hotel worker, Tadeu, told MailOnline: ‘I’m so tired of the tourists who come here, they behave like mental asylum escapees, it’s dangerous.
‘They walk around like they own the place and with an air of entitlement.’
He added: ‘I’ve decided to move to another city later this year, I just don’t feel very safe, it’s not a nice place to live at times.’
Tadeu’s hotel has tried to take matters into its own hands by creating a ‘behaviour booklet’ for its guests, which tells them how to be a ‘good’ visitor – including being properly dressed, respecting the area and not drinking to excess.
It comes after British tourists holidaying in the resort were warned at the start of the year that local town hall chiefs were planning on bringing in fines of up to £1,250 if they got caught walking along the street in their bikinis or swim shorts.
Locals are said to have become increasingly frustrated as the once quiet town has turned into a hub of excess drinking, nudity and raucous behaviour.
Albufeira’s mayor Jose Carlos Polo said he also wanted to tackle street drinking and the problem of holidaymakers urinating in public by introducing new penalty fees.
Last summer a group of partying British tourists put on a shocking display of public nudity which led to locals questioning the type of visitor the town attracted.
Footage of their drunken antics, showing them naked on their knees in a line on top of a bar counter, went viral as Mr Rolo called the display ‘deeply negative’ and said he would call for police reinforcements.
