THE BODY of a man last seen leaving an Isle of Wight pub late on Good Friday has been found washed up on a beach.

Brian Gandy, 30, a single man, was found near Kings Quay, east of Osborne Bay, after a massive land, sea and air search.

Mr Gandy, from Guildford, left the Folly Inn in Whippingham,

near East Cowes, at 11pm on Friday.

He used a dinghy to get to his father's yacht where he was

staying, which was moored 500 yards downstream in Medham Bay.

The former supermarket manager was understood not to have been wearing a life jacket and his dinghy was found upside down and secured to the yacht.

Police say they are treating his death as a tragic accident.

Mr Gandy had been visiting his parents who live on the Island in Ryde.

Officers say a female passenger on the 9am Red Jet leaving Cowes on Saturday saw what she thought was a body in the water.

Police have asked for anyone who may have seen it to come forward.

A police spokesman said: "We think other people must have seen something in the busy entrance to the harbour on a bank holiday weekend."