More than a year after the body of Nathan Osman, a 30-year-old Welsh father, was found at the bottom of a 200-meter-high cliff near Benidorm, his death is still a mystery. At first, his family thought it was just an accident that happened when he was on holiday with friends, but over time, they have grown to see it as a case full of unsolved issues that has led to additional investigations in both Spain and the UK.
A weird fall in a faraway place
In September 2024, Osman was found dead in a rough region remote from the main tourist area in the opposite direction from his accommodation. The forensic analysis said that he died from head and stomach injuries that were consistent with falling from a significant height.
Local officials said the event was a bizarre accident that happened in the early morning hours when the young man was apparently going back to his hotel alone after being separated from his pals. His family, on the other hand, never understood why he would have walked to such a dark, empty, and almost desolate place.
Nathan’s mother, Elizabeth, said that when she went back to the place, it was “wild” and not worth her son’s time to go there at four in the morning.
Mobile data that impacted how we saw things
The investigation changed when Nathan’s family got his phone back months after the event. His health app, which tracks mobility, let detectives put together a rather detailed picture of his last moves.
Lee Evans, his brother, said that the recorded pace didn’t match up with walking or even jogging uphill. The family thinks that this information shows Nathan may have been in a car for the 40 minutes before he died, which goes against the first assumption that he walked to the precipice.
Also, the time analysis of the records showed that he died about half an hour after security cameras caught him walking towards his hotel. If he had been walking, the distance and time wouldn’t add up.
A family investigation when there are no answers
The Osman family didn’t accept what the local authorities said, so they started their own inquiry. They put out a full timeline of that early morning using security camera footage, witness statements, and bank information.
They found out that someone tried to use Nathan’s bank card the day after he died during the reconstruction. They think this is an important information that wasn’t properly looked into in the first inquiry.
They also found 27 more security cameras that could have caught movement in the vicinity, even though the police said there were no records accessible. The family says they were notified that the cameras weren’t functional or that the video had already been removed.
Criticisms of the first study
The Osmans think that the place where Nathan’s body was located was not treated like a crime scene. Jonathan, his father, is upset that no fingerprints, biological evidence, or possibly tyre tracks or footprints were found. He said in a recent interview, “No procedures were followed.”
They say that these problems made the Welsh police start their own inquiry after looking over the family’s evidence. Lee says that British officers were “dismayed” by how little evidence was collected in the first few hours of the case.
Spain has restarted the case.
The case was resurrected in Spain in early 2025 because of the file the family put together. The new papers were sent to the Prosecutor’s Office, which agreed to look over the facts because there was a chance that more people were involved.
Authorities looked again at recordings, bank accounts, and testimonies to see if Osman’s death may not have been an accident.
A search that might not have a clear end
The family knows that time makes it hard to adequately explain what happened that night. Still, they are hopeful that some picture or piece of evidence will come to light that will show whether Nathan was in a car before he fell to his death.
Elizabeth says, “Our goal is for a proper investigation to be done and for the person who is responsible, if there is one, to be found.” “Nathan walks with us every day.”
Sky News got in touch with the Spanish police, but they wouldn’t say anything. They said the matter is still being looked at by the courts and they don’t want to get in the way of the investigation.
Author: Derek Appleton
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