Voyce went missing in Northumberland after Storm Darragh flooded parts of the UK over last weekend.
The 43-year-old’s car was recovered from the River Aln, near Alnwick, Northumberland, which he had been trying to cross using a ford.
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Police feared the vehicle was then pulled along by the current.
A search had been ongoing since Sunday, but Northumbria Police’s Marine Unit discovered a body near Abberwick Mill earlier.
Formal identification is yet to take place, but Mr Voyce’s next of kin have been notified.
Who is Tom Voyce?
Tom Voyce was born on 5 January 1981 in Truro, Cornwall, and grew up playing rugby for Penryn RFC and Truro RFC before leaving Cornwall at the age of 16 to join Bath.
Voyce won nine England caps between 2001 and 2006, scoring three tries, with two of those coming against Samoa during his first Test appearance at Twickenham in 2005.
He started games against New Zealand and Australia on the 2004 summer tour and was selected for every match of the 2006 Six Nations.
England won two and lost three games of that Championship as they finished fourth in the table for the second year in a row.
That summer, he was selected for the tour to Australia but England were thumped 34-3 by the Wallabies in the first Test in Sydney and Voyce was heavily criticised for his performance on the wing. It would be his final international appearance, at the age of 25.
“One game seemed to ruin everything I had done,” Voyce later, candidly, admitted in an interview. “I was going through a divorce at the time, which I didn’t make public. I was banging my head against a brick wall trying to figure out what had happened and what I wanted from the sport.”
