A body found in a lift shaft in Malaysia has been identified as that of a missing British tourist who disappeared more than a week ago while backpacking in Asia.

Jordan Johnson-Doyle, 25, was last seen on May 27 at a bar in an upmarket suburb in Kuala Lumpur, sparking a police probe and a search by his parents.

Malaysian police confirmed today that a body found at the base of a lift shaft on Wednesday, tragically, belonged to the missing backpacker.

Police chief Rusdi Mohd Isa said they had received information that a man was found lying on his back in the lift [shaft] on the ground floor of a construction site'.

A post-mortem 'found that the cause of death was a chest injury sustained from a fall from height,' he said.