A BRIT tourist has been found dead in the Portuguese party resort of Albufeira. The body of the 21-year-old man was discovered at the bottom of a set of steps in the old town in the Algarve.

The alarm was raised just before 7am on Wednesday, Correo da Manha reports. An autopsy has already taken place but results have not been made public.

It's understood cops are not treating the death as suspicious - but Portugal’s Polícia Judiciaria have reportedly been called in to investigate. Police have not said whether the Brit was staying at a hotel in Albufeira.

A source said: "A local woman living in an apartment block where this younger British man’s body was found at the back raised the alarm. He was found dead at the back of a residential building."

Another source said: “He was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. What we found out... was that he had been drinking with friends and at some point left them and walked off alone. None of the friends realised he had gone. It looked from an initial investigation as if he had jumped over a wall from a high area near the old town in Albufeira, not realising there was a sheer drop."

It comes just days after cops located the body of a Scottish tourist who had been missing for a week in Albufeira. Greg Monks, 38, from Glasgow, had gone out drinking after flying to the resort hours earlier for a stag do. He is thought to have jumped over a wall and fallen down a steep cliff after becoming disorientated as he tried to head back to his hotel.

The plant mechanic was found by police at the bottom of a ravine on Wednesday - just hours after the 21-year-old Brit was discovered.

Albufeira's reputation has been shifting from a family-focused resort to a party town. Brit tourists have been warned of plans to bring in fines of up to £1,250 if they are caught walking along the street in bikinis or swim shorts. And Albufeira’s mayor Jose Carlos Polo said he wants to tackle street drinking and the problem of holidaymakers urinating in public by introducing new charges.

Source: The Sun.