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Updated 11.50am
A 21-YEAR-OLD British traveller has shown up after an international search effort was initiated by his family.
Jordan Jacobs had been missing since 11 December from the tourist destination of Ko Phi Phi Don.
Speaking to The Telegraph earlier today, he said that he had been “chilling out” and “perhaps having a bit too much fun”.
Concern was raised after he sent a message to his family saying that he could ‘never see them again’ and that he was being held by an unidentified Thai man.
Speaking to the newspaper from a town on the island where he was staying, he was unclear about the details of the contact he’d had with his family.
He had been due to fly home for Christmas.
His sister Emily Jacobs told the Mail Online that on the morning of Saturday 12 December their mother received a Facebook message saying that he could never see his family again and that he loved them.
Writing on her Facebook, she has said:
Any information no matter how small you think it is could be huge. Any sightings or potential sightings. Any contact. Anything.
Speaking to The Telegraph, local island police chief Jetsada Junphum said:
We have received reports that Jordan is missing and everyone here is looking for him.
Emily Jacobs said that the last known sighting of her brother was at a restaurant in the area where he was staying when he used another traveller’s phone to make a call.
After this he left his hostel on the mainland to go to Koh Phi Phi Don, going with a local man that he met in a laundrette.
“That evening (Thai local time) was when he called my parents. He was upset,” she wrote.
My parents haven’t spoken to him since.
In the restaurant where he was last seen before his disappearance the owner described him walking up to a Cypriot tourist wearing no shoes and without a bag.
Jordan Jacobs has been travelling for more than a year. A Facebook post appealing for his return was shared more than 3,000 times.
- First published 09.56am
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He sounds like a prat that still has a lot of growing up to do..
Ha ha Will is a legend.
Haha that was the first thing that came to my mind reading this article
Sounds like he was tripping
He needs a good kick up in the hole
I read this and thought it could be drug related. I searched on Facebook out of curiosity to see what people are posting. One post said “British man doesn’t have the balls to tell his family he doesn’t care about them and doesn’t want to come home, pathetic man” and also another post “I saw him over there, he is safe and well”.
I feel like some people know something. I guess the truth will come out sooner or later.
Who gives a shit
That really doesn’t sound good, whatever he got himself into hasn’t ended well.
I really hope the family find him or at the worst closure.
He has been found safe and well
Really Tom?
Yip breaking on Sky News at the moment
Brilliant news for the family.
What a Muppet
Ooooo that boy’s in soooooooo much trouble with his mammy!!!
“he said that he had been “chilling out” and “perhaps having a bit too much fun”.
Stupid dope.
Deport him immediately.
It’s a classic case of DES……Dirty Eejit Syndrome.
Did he even write that message?
This is a big indicator of a psychotic episode brought on by shrooms. Judging by the tattoos, this guy has probably been smoking weed for years. Aside from the popular nonsense that cannabis is harmless, there is a lot of evidence that abusing it can affect your brain chemistry and make you more suspectable to episodes.
I hope this guy is alright. I hope he’s just having a bad episode and he should come around at some point.
“big indicator of a psychotic episode brought on by shrooms”
LOL
Thats a very broad generalisation there. I know lots of people covered in tattoos that have never touched weed. I also know a lot of people that smoke weed but have never had a tattoo.
It’s the specific tattoo. It’s influenced by the great conspiracy theorist David Icke.
All drugs, including alcohol, can have adverse reactions. However, the lot of them together can have totally unforeseen reactions. Alcohol, weed and shrooms all together can cause very long prolonged psychotic episodes.
Do you even know that was the reason for all this or are you just spouting sh!te?
Jumping a bit far into conclusions saying tattoos are signs of drug-use there, Old Gordon.
But on saying that, when he went missing, sent some odd messages telling his parents he loves them but will never be able to see them again (though he was able to get hold of a phone), and then he was found soon after a search went out…. yeah first thing that came into my head was “Bad trip with a whole load of paranoia going through his head”.
I’ve no idea what the real story is, but that did pop into my head. Still, glad he’s safe though, whatever happened to him has sure to have been a terrifying ordeal for a 21yo alone in a foreign country
Deja vu.
you said LOL, thats worse
Again?
Gordon , stop being a tool
Very strange indeed.
A good lesson for young travellers. If it seems to good to be true – free travel, free accommodation, free booze etc – then it probably is. If you wouldn’t jump in a car with a total stranger in Dublin why would you do it in Asia.
Good lesson for settled people also, not just travellers.
A good kick up the hole is what he needs and a haircut.
apparently he’s already been found walking on a beach.
https://twitter.com/i/moments/677402790268899328
maybe it was a fraping
Stop Frape Culture!
Stop blaming this frape victim
Always have a designated sober person with you when you try the mushroom shakes in Thailand. I was a hairs breath away from ringing my parents and telling them I broke my brain …
Stuff didnt suit me …
That fact you would willingly try that suggests your brain broke along time ago chap.
What a p rick.
Despite what many advocates of cannabis and other drugs on here say, this is what happens when you take drugs.
If this is what happens when you take drugs, this would be happening by the thousands every weekend in this country alone. But thanks for your expert scientific opinion.
Just here to help.
“Distinctive tattoos” lol
He said he was just “chilling out”. What an absolute muppet
Slow news day?
If you don’t have an ounce of humanity, yes.
Looks like you’ve nothing to do anyway Matt…so be grateful you took time out to read this.
Definaiely a slow news day.
Koh Phi Phi are small Islands with small populations. I know Thailand fairly well and my guess is this guy got involved in things he was better off keeping his nose out of. When life is cheap Thai criminals don’t have too many qualms about killing those they believe have crossed them in some way or another.
Moron i would tell not to bother coming home
Stoners are hilarious !!
Poor guy
Thought it was kris Novoselic there for a sec
Kris Novoselic 20 years ago?
Well yes, it was the only relevant Novoselic we want to know of
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