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Police attempt to identify body

Stephen King
Mr King was in Australia on a working holiday

Police investigating the disappearance of an Armagh man in Australia are trying to identify a body found in a river in Melbourne.

Stephen King from Keady went missing two weeks ago after a night out in the city with friends.

Earlier this week, Mr King's brothers arrived in Melbourne to help with the search.

He arrived in Australia three weeks ago for a year-long working holiday and had been staying with a childhood friend.

Two thousand pictures of the missing County Armagh man were posted in Melbourne in the hope that he might be found.

Mr King, a tiler and bricklayer, was last seen with a group of friends in a bar on 19 July.

It is understood that he left his friends in the pub in Southbank to go to a casino, but there is no evidence that he entered the premises.




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