Authorities wrongly told the family of Dom Phillips that his body had been found and the Brazilian ambassador to the UK has been forced to apologise in a letter.
Phillips, 57, and his travelling partner Bruno Pereira, 41, went missing in a remote part of the Amazon last week, with the family informed that their bodies has been found tied to trees in the rainforest.
According to reports in the Guardian, the family of Phillips received a call on June 13 to tell them of the discovery, but officials only suspected the bodies belonged to the missing men and never confirmed their identities.
