Police in Scotland believe that the body which was found in a tent in Braemar on Tuesday evening is Dr David Hughes, who comes from Newton Abbot. The 37-year-old doctor – who, according to a police statement, was stressed and depressed due to the pressures of long working hours and being told he would return to the Gulf with the Navy – went missing on April 18. 'The body has not been formally identified, but we are satisfied it is him,' said a Lothian and Borders Police spokesman. 'His car was found late on Tuesday evening and search teams continued looking for him and found a tent with the body inside about five miles from his car. His family members have been told. 'It is a sad turn of events, it's really devastating. We are not treating this death as suspicious.' The father of three, a Surgeon Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy, disappeared after completing a nightshift as an anaesthetist at St John's Hospital, Livingston, at 9am. Later that day, he called his wife Joanne to say he was going hill walking, but he never returned home. Dr Hughes, who moved to Scotland from Newton Abbot around four years ago with his wife, trained at Dundee University and was sent to Iraq in 2003 on naval hospital ship RFA Argus. It is claimed he was depressed because of a punishing work schedule. 'We know that Dr Hughes has been under a lot of pressure at work doing long hours in a stressful job,' a police spokesman said.
