Police traced body of Greg Monks with CCTV showing final moments before tragic death on stag do in Portugal
It shows the 38-year-old jumping over a wall after a night out with his stag do friends at the party resort of Albufeira.
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New pictures also show the scrubland where he was found on the Algarve after a week-long search.
Cops with sniffer dogs were dispatched to search the steep hillside below luxury villas after a homeowner responded to an appeal by police and Greg's family to search cameras for images of him.
An autopsy today is expected to firm up the belief he died in a tragic accident after becoming disorientated as he tried to get back to his hotel after a heavy night of drinking with his holiday friends, just hours after travelling to Albufeira for a five-day stag do.
Tributes were continuing to be paid today to the plant mechanic from Glasgow, described as an 'amazing guy' by his devastated sister Jillian following yesterday morning's discovery.
Portuguese police confirmed Greg's body had been found in an official statement they put out yesterday afternoon after news of the find started leaking out in the local press.
A Portuguese police source revealed today that CCTV supplied by a local homeowner had proved vital in the case.
Greg's sister had urged residents in Cerro da Aguia, west of Albufeira, to check home cameras and doorbell footage between 2am and 5am on May 28 after it emerged the last sighting of him had been in the hill area dotted with large villas.
The police insider said today: 'The GNR police force had requested help from the Polícia Judiciaria force, which confirmed yesterday the missing man's body had been found.
'They then got given CCTV from one of the villas in the Cerro da Aguia areas, which enabled them to trace him jumping over a wall of a neighbouring property.
'With that information, the searches were immediately moved to the scrubland below the houses.
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'Sniffer dogs that were being used by the GNR were brought in again.
'When the dogs were put to work in the area, around 11am, they went straight to a bush where the missing man's body was laying.'
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Another police insider added: 'The investigation into exactly how he died is ongoing.
'But all the evidence so far is pointing to the tourist losing all notion of where he was in a place he hadn't been to before, and under the effects of alcohol jumping over a first wall into a private property and then a second wall in the back garden not realising there was a steep drop the other side.'
Greg's girlfriend Nicole Kelso, as well as the Scots' mum and dad, travelled to Albufeira after he went missing.
His sister Jillian, who fronted the appeals for information on his whereabouts before he was found dead, said yesterday his family were 'truly heartbroken.'
She added: 'Everyone who knows Greg knows how much he will be missed and what an amazing guy he was.'
Portuguese police have not yet released any official statement about why they think he died, although officers have admitted privately they don't expect the post-mortem to reveal any possible link to a crime.
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