A British man who went missing in Thailand and sent a series of distressing messages to his family has been found "safe and really well".
Jordan Jacobs, 21, from Lyneham, Wiltshire, failed to make his flight home on Wednesday for Christmas, leaving his worried family appealing for information about his whereabouts.
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The phone he used for the call belonged to a Cypriot tourist, who informed the family that Jordan had approached him barefoot without a bag and asked to use his phone, the Daily Mail reported. The family believed a Thai man, who had apparently taken Jordan to the island for free, was connected to his disappearance.
"Saturday morning my mum received a message via Facebook from my brother, 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," Emily later told the Mail. "He was upset and said that the man wouldn't let him leave. That he was scared of him."
Emily said there was no more contact until Monday morning when her brother appeared online. She was able to speak to him for around a minute and a half using Facebook wifi messenger, but he "couldn't or wouldn't" tell her where he was.
"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," she said.
A Foreign Office spokesman had confirmed that Jordan had been reported missing on 12 December and that it was providing consular assistance to the family.
However, today the police told The Guardian that they had found him "alive and really well".
"We found him trying to apply for a diving job on Koh Phi Phi. He was walking along the beach," said Police Col Lt Jetsada Junphum on Koh Phi Phi Don. "He has 6-7,000 baht (£110-£130) left and a credit card. He shaved his beard."
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