Joop Sparkes was last seen jumping off a party boat in the Czech capital’s Vltava River
The family of a 29-year-old British tourist who went missing in Prague last month have confirmed a body found in a river by Czech police is his.
Joop Sparkes, from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, was last seen in the early hours of April 27 when he jumped into the Vltava River from a party boat.
He was reported missing after he did not resurface.
A body was recovered from the river, which runs through the centre of the Czech capital, yesterday.
The Daily Mirror quoted his sister Jodie Wilson saying: ‘The body recovered from the water last night has been confirmed as Joop.
‘We are all absolutely heartbroken and this wasn’t the outcome we had hoped for but like we promised we are bringing our boy home.
‘We love you to the moon and back Joopster and you have left the biggest hole in our hearts ever. Rest easy baby bro.’
The newspaper said she had flown out to Prague with Joop’s girlfriend Charley Maben and aunt Gillian soon after his disappearance to help with the search.
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