Mystery as British tourist, 52, is found dead ‘with injuries on his body’ a day after
A British tourist has been found dead on a small Belize island just a day after checking into his hotel.
The 52-year-old man had travelled on Monday to Caye Caulker for a dream holiday, but just a day after checking into the Casa Vista Hotel, he was found dead with injuries.
According to local reports, several neighbours in the accommodation ‘heard a thud’ on the ground near the hotel and rushed to check on the holidaymaker.
Upon being discovered unconscious, he was taken to the Caye Caulker Health Center, but tragically he succumbed to his injuries later on in the evening.
Local police have now launched a probe into his death and the mysterious circumstances surrounding it.
Officer Stacy Smith said in a statement: ‘On Tuesday, October 28, 2025, police officers attached to the Caye Caulker formation visited the Caye Caulker Health Clinic as a consequence of a report made off an unconscious male person therein.
‘(He) succumbed to injuries that were observed on his body later on that evening.
‘What we have been able to ascertain so far is that several persons were in the area when they would have heard a sound.
The 52-year-old man had travelled on Monday to Caye Caulker for a dream holiday, but just a day after checking into the Casa Vista Hotel, he was found dead with injuries (file image of Caye Caulker)
‘And upon making inquiry, they would’ve observed (him) on the ground and he was subsequently rushed to the clinic for treatment’.
The Daily Mail has reached out to the Foreign Office for comment.
It comes after a British man was found dead off the coast of Malta on Tuesday, just two days after his 11-year-old son drowned while the pair were swimming during a family holiday.
The 37-year-old’s body was discovered following an extensive search operation involving Maltese police, the armed forces and local rescue teams.
His son had been pulled from the water earlier in the week after getting into difficulty while swimming at Ramla Bay.
The mother of the boy was on the beach with her two other younger children when her son drowned and her husband went missing on Monday.