Missing fisherman's body found

A body found in the sea off Lewis has been confirmed as the remains of a Polish fisherman who had been missing for more than a year.

Bogjuslaw Dziok was working on the Peterhead-registered trawler, the Radiant, when it sank 66 miles off Stornoway in April 2002.

The others on board - skipper William Lawson and crewmen William Ritchie, Sean Downie, William Beedie and George Maskane - were rescued.

It later emerged that their lifejackets had failed to inflate properly.

Mr Dziok's remains were discovered in the nets of a Dutch fishing boat 30 north west of the Flannen Isles more than a year after his vessel sank.

Life raft

His identity was confirmed by police in the Western Isles, who said his family in Poland had been notified of the discovery.

Mr Dziok went missing after the trawler capsized.

The crew members managed to get into a life raft, but Mr Dziok was lost when the raft overturned.

The other men were airlifted to safety after a Stornoway Coastguard helicopter spotted the raft.

The Radiant was a twin rig trawler built by the La Parilla Shipyard in northern Spain.