Mystery patient may be missing Italian dad-of-4
Possible link to man found in cathedral
A MYSTERY man who was taken ill at a Scots cathedral may be an Italian who had gone missing from his home near Pisa a day earlier.
The middle-aged man was found in St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on September 20.
He has no memory of who he is and is still in the city’s Royal Infirmary.
Police yesterday confirmed they are investigating whether he is Salvatore Mannino, 52, who vanished on September 19.
Italian police said Salvatore had checked online weather forecasts for Aberdeen and Edinburgh before disappearing. And they believe he may have been heading to Scotland.
The dad-of-four was last seen at a train station close to his home.
Salvatore left behind a bag containing £9000 in cash at his home.
A coded message unscrambled by his engineering student son Filippo Mannino, 18, reportedly read: “Forgive me, I am sorry.”
Filippo said: “It was a message Papa left me to decipher.”
Salvatore ran a business sending nurses to help elderly people at home. He was said to be “happy”.
The man found in St Giles’ is described as being in his early 60s, of medium build, with short strawberry blond hair and bluish-green eyes.
He has four tattoos on his arms – a butterfly, a seahorse and two inkings of Chinese writing.
Police have sent photos of the St Giles’ man to the Italian authorities.
A spokeswoman said officers were pursuing a “number of lines of inquiry”.