POLICE searching for a 19-year-old student who went missing after a night out have recovered a body from a river.

Matthew Wilcox, a geography student at the University of Leeds, has not been seen for a week.

West Yorkshire Police said Mr Wilcox did not return to his student flat in the Clarence Dock area of Leeds and said his disappearance was “very much out of character”.

He was last seen at around 3am last Friday went he left the Mission nightclub in the city centre.

Worried members of his family reported him missing the following day when he did not attend a charity event at his home in Rotherham.