The husband of a British woman who has gone missing in Greece said he was laughed at by locals as he desperately searched for his wife.
Chris Bourda, 66, woke up from his sun lounger on Ofrynio beach, Kavala, on Friday afternoon to discover his wife Michele, 59, had disappeared.
The mum-of-one’s belongings were still on her sun bed, but she was nowhere to be found.
He told the Daily Mail: ‘I quickly ran to the toilet and knocked on the ladies but she wasn’t in there. I then ran to the beach to look again in the water.
‘I then quickly went back to the waiter to say my wife was missing, have you seen her and he started laughing.’
Chris explained to the waiter his wife had ‘psychological problems’ and needed to call the police.
But officers did not arrive at the scene for another two ho