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03/09/2013
Body Recovered In Australia Believed To Be Missing Briton
Authorities in Australia searching for a missing British man have found a body while searching in bushland in the Blue Mountains region.
23-year-old Gary Tweddle, a computer salesman from Reading, was last seen in July when he attended a business conference in Leura, west of Sydney.
According to reports, New South Wales police have recovered a body that had been spotted by an ambulance rescue helicopter while on a training exercise on a cliff edge.
Mr Tweddle went missing following a work dinner at the conference. In the early hours of July 17 he telephoned a colleague saying that he was lost in bushland.
Formal identification of the body is expected to take several days, but New South Police have said the believe the body to be that of Mr Tweddle.
(MH/CD)
23-year-old Gary Tweddle, a computer salesman from Reading, was last seen in July when he attended a business conference in Leura, west of Sydney.
According to reports, New South Wales police have recovered a body that had been spotted by an ambulance rescue helicopter while on a training exercise on a cliff edge.
Mr Tweddle went missing following a work dinner at the conference. In the early hours of July 17 he telephoned a colleague saying that he was lost in bushland.
Formal identification of the body is expected to take several days, but New South Police have said the believe the body to be that of Mr Tweddle.
(MH/CD)
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