Body found in search for missing Argyll and Bute man

A body has been recovered in the search for a Scottish botanist missing in Vietnam for over two years.

Jamie Taggart, from Argyll and Bute, has not been seen since November 2013, when he did not return from a plant-hunting trip in the South East Asian country’s mountainous northern region.

Inquiries by his family revealed that his passport and rucksack were found at a guesthouse in the town of Sa Pa.

British embassy staff have worked with police in Hanoi in the search for Mr Taggart but extensive searches have led no-where.

When the 41 year old scientist was last seen, he was getting off a motorcycle taxi in Hoang Lien national park, near the town of Sa Pa, where his possesions were found, and the Vietnam/China border.

The official search for Mr Taggart ended in March 2014, but family and friends put up thousands of pounds to pay for more searching and investigation.

Now his older sister Janet Skidmore has posted on Facebook: “My brother has been found. RIP Jamie, I will miss you till I see you again, your big sister, love always.”

Mr Taggart ran Linn Botanic Gardens at Cove, on the Rosneath Peninsula, following in his botanist father’s footsteps in 1997.