Body of missing Scotsman found in Hamburg:report

BERLIN, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The body of Liam Colgan, a Scotsman who went missing during a so-called "stag-do" bachelor party in Hamburg, has been found in the river Elbe, German media reported on Monday.

Hamburg police confirmed that the body had been discovered in the water near the "Hafencity" quarter of the town which was likely to be that of 29-year-old Colgan, although no formal identification had yet been made.

According to a statement by the "Lucile Blackman Trust", a charitable organization which is assisting the family of the Scotsman, Colgan's driver's license was found on the body which was wearing the same clothing as the one when he was last seen.

Colgan disappeared on the night of February 10 at his brother Eamonn's stag-do which he had himself organized. The Scotsman was heavily inebriated when he left the "Hamborger Veermaster" club unannounced at around 1:30 a.m., according to eyewitnesses, and subsequently failed to return to his hostel.

The disappearance of Colgan provoked a large-scale rescue operation in Hamburg supported by many local volunteers. Around 300,000 leaflets were attached to shopfronts, lanterns and street-lights, asking passers-by if they had any information on the 29-year-old's whereabouts.

A spokesperson for Hamburg police told press that it had already informed Colgan's family but could currently not predict when the autopsy needed to fully-clarify the identity of the body would be complete. Enditem