A body has been set up in the search for establisher England rugby take parter Tom Voyce, Northumbria Police said.
The 43-year-elderly was stressed swept away after finisheavoring to pass a flooded river, when his car was swept away in Storm Darragh on Saturday.
A search had been ongoing since Sunday, but a body has now been recovered.
Formal identification has not getn place but Voyce’s next of kin have been inestablished.
A body has been set up in the search for the establisher Rugby take parter
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Chief Superintfinishent Helena Barron, of Northumbria Police, said today: “This is an excessively downcast broadenment and our thoughts very much persist to be with Tom’s adored ones.
“I would appreciate to thank all of our officers, partners and volunteers for their aidance thcimpoliteout the searches which have been directed in very challenging circumstances.
“We would persist to ask that people admire the family’s privacy at this time.”
Officers do not depend there to be any third-party comprisement and a inestablish will be setd for the coroner.
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Tom Voyce and his wife Anna Wood, who he paired in 2015
A search party had been sent out after police were telderly he did not return home from an evening with frifinishs on Saturday.
Voyce’s family and frifinishs were comprised in the search aextfinishedside the police, mountain get back teams and the National Police Air Service.
Northumbria Police said they faced “very challenging conditions, not least due to the river flow and the level being meaningfully heightened after the exceptionpartner weighty rain inestablished over the weekfinish”.
It is dependd that he tried to pass Abberwick Ford, proximate Bolton, Northumberland, while driving, which was pulled into the river.
Search efforts to discover Voyce earlier this weekPA
His Toyota Hilux was recovered around 15 metres downstream from the point where he tried to pass the river, but there was no sign of Voyce.
Voyce, who was capped nine times for England, reexhausted from rugby in 2013 and has been living in Alnwick since 2020.
He also take parted for Bath, Wasps and Gloucester at club level.
Folloprosperg the novels of his fadeance, England Rugby said on social media: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and frifinishs of Tom Voyce at this excessively challenging time.”
