Kuala Lumpur, June 7 – This is an undated and uncredited photograph made available 03 June 2014 by the Royal Malaysian Police in connection with their investigation of the disappearance of Gareth David Huntley, a British national who went missing on Tioman Island, Malaysia on 27 May 2014.
More than 100 personnel from various agencies participated in the search of the missing Briton.
Malaysian authorities confirmed today that the body found in Tioman Island is that of missing Briton Gareth Huntly.
Malaysia searchers carries a body believed to be Briton Gareth David Huntley in Tioman Island, Pahang, Malaysia, 04 June 2014. Searchers recovered a body on a jungle island in Malaysia where a British man went missing a week ago, a district police chief said. The body was discovered a few metres from a kayak storage area near the headquarters of a turtle conservation project where the missing Gareth David Huntley, 34, worked as a volunteer.
The mother of the missing Briton Gareth David Huntley, Janet Southwell (C) and Huntley’s girlfriend, Kit Natariga (L) wait outside the Forensic Unit at a hospital in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, 05 June 2014.
Photos: EPA