POLICE searching for missing Portsmouth man Scot Mackenzie have confirmed that a body has been found.
The body of a man was discovered by a walker near Rogate in West Sussex, on Tuesday, April 17.
A police spokesman said a member of the public out near the Hampshire / West Sussex border made the discovery.
The family of 58-year-old Mr Mackenzie, who has been missing since January, have been informed, but formal identification procedures are still ongoing.
The death is not being treated as suspicious at this stage and a file is being prepared for the coroner.
The police spokesman said: “We would like to thank everyone who helped to share our appeals earlier this year.”
The discovery of a body comes after police and search and rescue teams carried out a joint operation in Petersfield in relation to the missing man on Tuesday, April 10.
Also involved in the search, which took in the town centre, the Heath, land beside Petersfield Hospital, and the water meadows near Tesco, were volunteers from the Hampshire Search and Rescue charity (Hantsar).
Hantsar spokesman Trevor Vidler said: “We were called out to support the police in the search, and had about 28 volunteers there in teams of three and four.
“We searched areas across the town, including all the culverts in the stream that runs from Winchester Road through the town past Waitrose and on to Penns Place.
"Unfortunately the missing man wasn’t found, but we would like to thank the residents of Petersfield for their co-operation with our teams during the search.”
The Hantsar teams used the car park of the BT building in Charles Street as the operations base for their control vehicles.
As well searching the Heath, a team also searched land behind Petersfield Post Office, and other areas of the town.