University of Birmingham: The body of a missing student has been discovered

Police in Birmingham have discovered the body of a missing student who went missing after going out on a night out.

Officers launched an investigation after Joseph Derbisz, 21, a mechanical engineering student, became separated from friends at a University of Birmingham nightclub in the early hours of Sunday.

On Saturday afternoon, campus security guards discovered a body near a car park used by students as a shortcut, 250 metres from Fab N Fresh, a late-night venue in Selly Oak run by the Guild of Students. Firefighters recovered the body.

Joseph Derbisz, 21, of Rugby, Warwickshire, was a mechanical engineering student.

Although formal identification has not yet occurred.

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