Missing British tourist’s family appeal for help
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The family of a British traveller missing in southern Thailand has used social media to try and find him.
Jordan Jacobs, 21, from Lyneham in Wiltshire, was due to fly home on Wednesday to celebrate Christmas and was last seen at the Phi Phi islands on Saturday.
Since Sunday, Emily Jacobs, his sister, has appealed for help on her Facebook page.
She wants to know if anyone has seen her brother, describing him as British, aged in his early 20s, 165-167 centimetres tall.
She said he had a beard, black hair and distinctive tattoos on his arms and chest.
“Last known whereabouts Phi Phi islands. Please get in contact with myself or Debbie Jacobs if you have any information about his whereabouts,” she wrote.
Lt-Colonel Jetsada Junphum, the islands’ police chief, told The Telegraph newspaper that police had “received the reports that Jordan is missing and everyone here is looking for him”.
The Guardian newspaper reported that a British Foreign Office spokesman had confirmed Jacobs was reported missing in Thailand on Saturday and the office was providing consular assistance to the Jacobs family.
Emily Jacobs told MailOnline that her mother received a message via Facebook from her brother on Saturday morning “which basically said he can never see us again, that he is sorry he can’t see us one last time, that he loved us.
“He was upset and said that the man wouldn’t let him leave. That he was scared of him,” she added.
The family told MailOnline that his disappearance was connected to a Thai man who his travelling companions said either owns a farm on the Phi Phi islands or works on a farm there.
“There was no more contact until Monday morning where [sic] my brother appeared online, and after few attempts I was able to speak to him on the phone using the Facebook wifi messenger,” Emily Jacobs told MailOnline.
“I was on the phone for 90 seconds. He couldn’t or wouldn’t tell me where he was,” she said.
“I asked if he was OK, where he was, and he said ‘I’ve said too much. I can’t talk. I love you.’ And that was it. We’ve had no contact since.”
The phone he used for the call belonged to a Cypriot tourist, who informed the family that Jacobs had approached him barefoot without a bag and asked to use his phone, MailOnline reported.
Emily Jacobs wrote on Facebook that her brother’s last known location was the PP restaurant on Koh Phi Phi Don. “He borrowed another traveller’s phone to call home. The owner of the restaurant has confirmed he was there,” she said.
“We know he left Pak Up hostel to head to Koh Phi Phi Don, leaving behind his other backpacker friends. He left with a local man that he met at the laundrette near to the hostel.
“The man offered to take him to the island for free. That evening [Thai local time] was when he called my parents. He was upset.”
Jetsada said it was unclear how Jacobs reached the islands, telling The Telegraph that ferry travel was the only way to get there.
