Police in Spain have been given another 72 hours to question a 32-year-old man they arrested earlier this week.

Discovery of body on Tuesday afternoon ends weeks of searching in Spain for missing Belfast man feared lured to his death on the Costa Blanca

A body, believed to be missing Belfast man John George, has been found in Spain. The 37-year-old father-of-two, also known as John Hardy, disappeared while holidaying in Alicante. He was last in touch with his loved ones on 14 December and was reported missing four days later after he failed to board his flight home.

The search for John George, a 37-year-old father-of-two from Belfast, has ended in tragedy with the discovery of his body in Spain. Known to his friends and family as John Hardy, George had been missing since December after failing to return from a trip to Algeciras,

A solicitor representing the family of John George has said that a murder investigation into his death could ‘extend beyond one person’ after the Belfast man’s body was discovered in Spain on Tuesday and a 32-year-old was arrested.

A body has been found in Spain twenty four days after a West Belfast man was first reported missing. John George, also known as John Hardy, from the Twinbrook area, was reported missing after he missed his flight home from Alicante on December 18.

Belfast Telegraph's Allison Morris reports.

Police in Northern Ireland have urgently repeated an appeal for information following the grim discovery of a missing Belfast man's body in Spain. John George, who was also known as John Hardy and hailed from West Belfast,

Dad-of-two John George went missing while in Spain just before Christmas. Also known as John Hardy, the west Belfast man did not board his return flight to Belfast from Alicante airport on December 18 as intended.

John George left Belfast to travel to Alicante to meet friends just before Christmas but never showed up at the airport for his return flight home on December 14