The body of a British former chef killed fighting Islamic State alongside a Kurdish militia in Syria has been recovered, according to Kurdish activists.

Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, west Sussex, died last month in battle near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ‘s (Isil) self-declared caliphate.

After his death his body had been in the hands of Islamic State militants.