British man found dead in Colombia

A 24-year-old British man missing in Colombia has been found dead at the foot of a waterfall.

Joe Tilley, from Leicester, was found at 11:30am local time on Saturday near the Fin Del Mundo falls near Mocoa city in the south west of the country, having disappeared the previous week.

His father Ian Hussey immediately flew to the Latin American country in a bid to find him and set up Twitter and Facebook accounts using the handle “Find Joe Tilley”. On Sunday Mr Tilley’s family announced his death and asked for space to grieve.

A fundraising campaign has now been launched to raise the £4,500 needed to repatriate his body and a further £4,000 for funeral costs.

Thecampaign’sfounder,tim Smith, said Mr Hussey was making his way home.

It is understood that Mr Tilley had been volunteering and travelling on the continent at the time of his death.

In a Facebook post dated 4 May, he talked about his experience volunteering in Nicaragua, saying: “The work we did was amazing.”