In the third article below - it states the body was found Wednesday night and they waited until the morning - for a coroner to examine the body, before removing her.
Greece, missing English astrophysics found dead | tellerreport.com
The British scientist dispersed in Greece on the island of Icaria was found dead in a ravine. This was reported by the police quoted by the British media, which at the moment do not bother about the causes of death. Natalie Christopher, a 34-year-old astrophysicist based in Cyprus, was on vacation with her boyfriend, but hadn't come back Monday night after jogging. The body, the Daily Mail reports, was found by a volunteer firefighter less than a kilometer from the hotel where the couple was staying.
Greece: the death of the British Natalie Christopher due to a fall | tellerreport.com
The body of British scientist Natalie Christopher was discovered Wednesday in a ravine, while she was missing since Monday morning.
The death of British scientist Natalie Christopher on the Greek island of Ikaria is due, according to preliminary reports, to "a fall from height", said Thursday afternoon to the media a forensic scientist in charge of the investigation. "After the inspection of the site and a first macroscopic autopsy of the body, everything seems to indicate that it is a fall from height," said Nikos Karakoukis, the medical examiner present on the scene of the tragedy since Thursday morning .
Her remains transferred to Athens on Thursday
Natalie Christopher's body, 35, is due to be transferred to Athens in the day for a detailed autopsy, he added. Since Thursday morning, a team of the Directorate of Criminal Police conducted an autopsy in the ravine where the accident had occurred, according to a police source.
Natalie Christopher, an Oxford-trained astrophysicist living in Nicosia, had been missing since Monday morning when she went for a jog, according to her companion's statements to the police. Local authorities, volunteers and a police team from Athens searched for two days before a firefighter discovered his body Wednesday afternoon at the bottom of a ravine, crushed by a rock, 1.5 km from the hotel where the couple stayed.
Member of several sports associations
Traces of blood were found in the hotel room of the couple, located near the port of Aghios Kirykos, according to a police source. Arriving on the island on Saturday for a holiday, the couple had to leave the island on Monday, media reports said.
The death of the young woman aroused a strong emotion notably in Cyprus, Natalie Christopher being member of several sports associations and engaged in many social projects. She was involved in "Cyprus Girls Can", an initiative to bring together young Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot girls through sport, and "Astronomy for all", aimed at introducing astronomy to children from both communities. divided island.
Scientist Natalie Christopher’s ‘hysterical’ boyfriend had to be restrained after learning of her death
Police say the woman’s ‘hysterical’ boyfriend had to be physically restrained
Missing UK scientist found dead in Greek island ravine
Dr Natalie Christopher vanished after going for a morning jog while on holidays in the Greek islands, and has been found “crushed to death” after she fell down a ravine, police say.
The distraught boyfriend of a missing jogger was said to have been restrained when told her body was found at the bottom of a 20-metre ravine.
Dr Natalie Christopher’s partner reportedly let out an anguished cry after learning the 34-year-old
had fallen before being crushed by a dislodged boulder.
Mail Online reports a rescue worker describing the moment Dr Christopher’s 38-year-old partner was told
she had been found dead in her running gear with a boulder over her lower body.
“He was screaming and crying and tried to run up the track to be with her,” he said. “He was distraught and pacing up and down and trying to get past the police. He wanted to see the body.
“I don’t think he could believe that she was dead. “I saw him later and he had calmed down, but his face was completely white. I have never seen someone so drained of any color.”
Coroner Nikolas Karakoukis said after his preliminary examination the 34-year-old’s death on the Greek island of Ikaria
was "accidental" and death would have been instant.
Dr Christopher vanished on Monday morning hours before she and her Cypriot partner were due to fly back to their home in Nicosia.
Her 38-year-old boyfriend reported her missing around noon on Monday when she failed to return from a jog that reportedly began at 8am.
He says he phoned her mobile at 10am when he woke up and found she was not at the hotel, and she answered telling him she was running in a rocky area of the island.
But after she failed to show up, he called the cops at noon, police spokesman Theodore Chronopoulos told The Sun Online.
Mr Chronopoulos said: “Her partner spoke to her when he woke up at 10am and discovered she wasn’t there.
“They had a conversation and she said she was out jogging.
“At 12 (noon) when she still hadn’t come back and when he started to worry, he called police. He says she promised to be careful.
The unnamed man claims she told him: “I can’t go fast, I’ll be back slowly, don’t worry.”
Rescuers found her body on Wednesday at the bottom of a ravine in an area known as Katafygi.
A large rock - which may have been dislodged by her in the fall - appeared to have crushed her. Search teams left the body there overnight so a coroner could examine her in the morning as police refused to rule out foul play.
Mr Chronopoulos said it was too early to tell if she fell or was pushed. He said: “At this point we don’t know how she died.
“We have to await the report from the coroner, which will take two to three days, to have the answers.”
The scientist may have been attempting to scale a steep slope without equipment.
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Investigators are said to be probing the possibility the scientist — a keen climber — was attempting to scale a steep slope without equipment, according to local reports.
Local media also reports that homicide detectives from the Greek capital of Athens have arrived in Ikaria and have taken over the case.
Police sources said the scientist’s boyfriend “was very unlikely to be considered a suspect”.
The ravine is less than two kilometres from her hotel in Kerame in the north of the island.
Her boyfriend remains on the island. His brother and a Spanish friend have flown out to join him.
She was an avid runner according to her social media pages.
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Police seek more answers in Natalie’s death
Greek investigators: premature to draw conclusions, awaiting post mortem as they piece together what happened to Natalie
09 AUGUST 2019 - Greek reports on Wednesday said that Natalie
had been found "lying on her back, crushed by several large rocks".
But the cause of her death was not immediately clear, with more information expected after a post-mortem scheduled to take place on Friday in Athens.
Greek forensic pathologist Nikos Karakoukis, who conducted an autopsy at the scene, told reporters on Thursday that a bloodstain pattern analysis at the scene of Natalie’s death was consistent with injury after falling, essentially pointing to a massive head wound that would have rendered her unconscious with an instantaneous death.
Karakoukis also added there were no signs that the body had been dragged to its location, saying Natalie died exactly where she fell.
But the cause of her death was not immediately clear, with more information expected after a post-mortem scheduled to take place on Friday in Athens.
Greek forensic pathologist Nikos Karakoukis, who conducted an autopsy at the scene, told reporters on Thursday that a bloodstain pattern analysis at the scene of Natalie’s death was consistent with injury after falling, essentially pointing to a massive head wound that would have rendered her unconscious with an instantaneous death.
Karakoukis also added there were no signs that the body had been dragged to its location, saying Natalie died exactly where she fell.
Natalie appeared to have been crushed by a pile of large rocks after falling into a gorge some 20 meters up high. Media have speculated that the woman known as a keen outdoorswoman might have tried to climb up or down when the rock might have detached.
A post mortem is expected to shed light on additional circumstances in Natalie’s death, while
preliminary reports suggested the body was in a very bad shape. Crime detectives sent from the Greek capital are also taking part in the investigation.
Natalie Christopher's boyfriend describes grief after death in Greece
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