A British woman’s missing three-year-old son has been found dead inside a burned out car in Portugal near the body of his father following a suspected murder-suicide.
The gruesome discovery was made by hunters on Sunday morning near Santa Margarida da Serra, 80 miles south-west of Lisbon.
German 40 year-old man was shot to the head by a gun near his car.
A three-year-old boy has been found dead alongside his father near the village of Santa Margarida, south of Lisbon (pictured), a week after his British mother reported him missing
The son was reported as missing by his mom a week earlier after she failed to report him to him at the weekend. She then went on the run along with him.
Local reports identify the mother as an expat British living in Lisbon.
Police in Portugal are understood to have been searching for the missing father and son since the start of the week when the child’s mum went to police.
Portugal’s Judicial Police are leading the investigation. The force has not yet provided any official comments.
In a shocking case, a Spanish man is accused of killing his daughters in Tenerife in April.
Tomas Gimeno, a man believed to be responsible for the suicide of his two young daughters after he dumped their corpses in the Atlantic Ocean.
Olivia, his eldest child and six-year-old daughter was discovered in a sports bag that had been attached to an anchor at more than 3000 feet under the seabed off of the island holiday.
A holdall the body of Olivia’s one-year-old sister Anna is thought to have been placed inside before being thrown off Gimeno’s boat was found empty and she is still missing along with the alleged double murderer.
A judge probing the trio’s disappearance on April 27 later accused Gimeno of killing his children and leaving their bodies where he did in a “planned and premeditated fashion to cause his ex-partner inhumane pain.”
After picking up his girls from an ex, Gimeno vanished with them.
Their mum Beatriz Zimmerman penned a gut-wrenching letter after Olivia’s body was found, accusing her former partner of “the most monstrous act a person can commit” in killing his own “innocent children.”
Cristiano Ronaldo’s partner Georgina Rodriguez was among celebs who used their social media accounts to highlight the girls’ disappearance in the days after they went missing as their mum posted pictures and videos of them online in a bid to get their photos published around the world so well-wishers would recognise them and alert the authorities.
We don’t know if the German father found Sunday with his three-year old son lived in Santa Margarida da Serra or how long they had been separated.