‘Missing’ Brit found alive, well
A message from a British man who went missing on Saturday in Krabi has appeared on his Facebook page, assuring his family that he is safe.
His family earlier issued a worldwide appeal for help, believing t he young backpacker had been kidnapped.
Jordan Jacobs, 21, from the English town of Lyneham in Wiltshire, was last seen at a restaurant on the largest of the Phi Phi islands where he had borrowed another traveller’s phone to call home, his sister Emily wrote on Tuesday on Facebook.
A distraught Mr Jacobs had told his mother, Debbie, that he was with a man who “wouldn’t let him leave”, British media reported.
But a screenshot of t wo Facebook posts to friends and family circulating yesterday suggests he is fine.
All the fuss kicked up over his “disappearance” was because his parents “overreacted because I said I’m not coming home” for Christmas, it said.
When he failed to update his Facebook page for several days, his family panicked.
“Just stop all of you freaking out,” the bearded, tattooed traveller implored in a second Facebook post, which could not be verified by the Bangkok Post.
Mr Jacobs said he had been out of touch simply because he had no internet connection.
The phone call to his mother had followed a Facebook message in which he said would never see his family again.
According to his Facebook page, Mr Jacobs “moved to Asia” in October and had been travelling around the region since.