Thousands sign petition calling for lights to be installed at University of Reading lake where body found

19-year-old Daniel Williams was last seen just after midnight on Thursday morning

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Thousands have signed a petition calling for lights to be installed around a lake at the University of Reading, after a body was found in the search for a missing student.

19-year-old Daniel Williams was last seen just after midnight on Thursday morning, leaving the student union bar on the Whiteknights campus.

On Tuesday, police discovered a body in a lake on the campus grounds.

Police on Wednesday confirmed the body is that of Daniel Williams.

The petition reached 7,000 signatures in less than 24 hours Credit: Change.org

The petition reached 7,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.

It urges the University of Reading to take into account the number of people who walk around it at all hours of the day and to realise that 'proper lighting around the lake walkways is a necessity'.

Second year Computer Sciences student Daniel disappeared while returning home from the 3sixty bar.

He was living in accommodation off campus, but never arrived back.

Temperatures that night were around -6°.