Police searching for a British man who went missing in bushland in Australia six weeks ago say a body has been discovered.
Gary Tweddle, 23, was attending a conference in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, when he disappeared after a work dinner.
The computer salesman, who had emigrated to Australia with his family, rang colleagues also staying at the Fairmont Resort in Leura in the early hours of July 17 to say he was lost in the bushland.
He has not been heard from since then, despite extensive search and rescue efforts.
Police said a body believed to be Mr Tweddle was found by an ambulance rescue helicopter during a training exercise near bushland in Leura at about 4pm local time (7am BST).
Joanne Elliott, a spokeswoman for Blue Mountains Local Area Command, said the “extremely rough terrain” meant police rescue officers would be unable to retrieve the body until dawn, when formal identification would take place.
“At 4pm the ambulance rescue helicopter was on a training flight over the Blue Mountains when they saw what they believed to be a body ,” she said.
“The location couldn’t be accessed on foot and the crew lost all light in the mountains, so we’re unable to get down to the ground.”
His mother Carol Streatfield, who also lives in Australia, had joined in with the search for her son.