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Body found in Bristol in hunt for missing student Olisa Odukwe who went to school in Tunbridge Wells

Police searching for a former Kent school pupil have discovered a body.

Student Olisa Odukwe, who went to school in Tunbridge Wells, was reported missing from his home in the Redland area of Bristol, where he was at university, on Saturday.

A body has been found in the hunt for missing student Olisa Odukwe. Picture: Avon and Somerset Police
A body has been found in the hunt for missing student Olisa Odukwe. Picture: Avon and Somerset Police

Today police coordinating the hunt for the 20-year-old confirmed a body had been found in a harbour in the city.

A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said: "Yesterday afternoon, police divers located and recovered the body of a man in Bristol Harbour, near Narrow Quay.

"While formal identification has not yet been carried out, we have updated the family of missing 20-year-old Bristol student Olisa Odukwe. Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.

"The man's death is not being treated as suspicious."

Mr Odukwe is understood to have attended Bennett Memorial School in Tunbridge Wells prior to university.

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