THE search for a missing Exeter man has been stood down as police find a body near Moretonhampstead.

Police discovered the body on Saturday, March 1.

Though formal identification has yet to take place, the family of Matthew Welham, 36, from Exeter, who was reported missing on Thursday, February 20, have been made aware.

‘His death is not being treated as suspicious and a file is being prepared for the coroner’ a spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police said.