Remains of UK journalist Phillips identified in Brazil 

The remains of one of the two bodies found in the Amazon rainforest are those of UK journalist Dom Phillips, Brazilian police have confirmed.

They say the identification was based on dental records.

The second body - believed to be that of indigenous expert Bruno Pereira - is still being examined.

Mr Phillips, 57, and Mr Pereira, 41, were first reported missing on 5 June. Earlier this week, a suspect confessed to burying the bodies.

The suspect was later named as Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira. The police said he had explained in detail how both men were killed before leading officers to the place where their bodies were buried.  

Human remains were then dug up.

The suspect's brother, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, has also been arrested in connection with the killings, but denies any involvement. 

After the suspect's confession, Dom Phillips' family said they were "heartbroken".

Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme Mr Phillips' sister Sian Phillips said his family had been aware there were risks but that her brother had under played them to an extent.

"I think he was a leading light in journalism, he was shining a light on an area which is a global problem," she said, adding that he had wanted to tell the stories of the indigenous people who live in the Amazon.

Her husband, Paul Sherwood, said the family wanted justice which made it "possible for journalists and protectors of the rainforest to feel safe in continuing to report from and to help the indigenous people".

He said the family were almost certain that the pair were attacked by people "involved in illegal fishing" but said what they wanted to know was whether they were acting alone or with the involvement of "other powerful people".

Mr Sherwood said that drug trafficking and organised crime was involved with illegal fishing in the region.  

Mr Pereira had been introducing the journalist - who was writing a book on the Amazon - to contacts and acting as his guide when their boat failed to arrive at an expected point near the border with Peru.

The pair went missing in the Javari valley, in Brazil's far west, a remote region home to thousands of indigenous people from more than 20 groups. It is a refuge for these indigenous groups, who live in isolation from the outside world.