A BODY has been found after police conducted a search for a man reported missing from a holiday park near Chudleigh.

Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police launched an immediate search after receiving reports that a man had gone missing from Finlake Holiday Park on Tuesday, March 4.

The following day, Wednesday, March 5, officers located a body in a woodland area not far from Chudleigh.

‘The body was pronounced deceased a short time later and is believed to be that of a man in his 40s from the Torquay area pending a formal identification; next of kin have been informed’ a spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said.

‘This death is not being treated as suspicious and a file is to be prepared for the coroner’ the spokesman added.