Richard Morris: Body found in search for missing diplomat

Police attempting to search out a missing British diplomat bask in learned a body in a forest in Hampshire.

Richard Morris, from Bentley, modified into once closing considered operating in Alton in the county on 6 Might maybe well well also.

Hampshire Constabulary mentioned officers had learned a body in Alice Holt Forest and the loss of life modified into once now now not being handled as suspicious.

Formal identification has now now not yet taken situation, but the 52-year-dilapidated’s family had been notified.

Police previously searched the forest, the build Mr Morris modified into once known to expertise operating.

Officers moreover inspected 2km (1.2 miles) of the River Wey, to boot as scouring CCTV footage and accomplishing home-to-home inquiries, sooner than their search modified into once scaled encourage.

Father-of-three Mr Morris, before all the pieces from Worcestershire, modified into once the UK ambassador to Nepal for four years till 2019.

Sooner than his disappearance he modified into once appointed British High Commissioner to Fiji.

Mr Morris had moreover labored as head of the Pacific department at the Distant places and Commonwealth Express of business (FCO), consul original in Sydney to boot as director original of trade and investment in Australasia.

In a old assertion, the Distant places Express of business described him as a “powerful-valued and well-cherished colleague”.