Jordan Jacobs: British man missing in Thailand after telling parents 'man won’t let him leave the island'
'I asked if he was ok, where he was, and he said 'I’ve said too much. I can’t talk. I love you''
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Your support makes all the difference.A young British traveller has gone missing on a Thai island after telling his parents a man had taken him there and would not let him leave.
Jordan Jacobs, 21, from Lyneham, Wiltshire was last seen on Koh Phi Phi Don on Saturday. He was due to fly home from Bangkok for Christmas on Wednesday.
His sister, Emily Jacobs, has appealed for help on her Facebook page, which has been shared more than 7,000 times.
She said his last known location was on Koh Phi Phi Don at PP restaurant, where he borrowed another traveller’s phone to call home.
“It’s been 4 days since someone last saw my little brother," she wrote. "Please keep sharing and posting, it is helping.
It's been 4 days since someone last saw my little brother. Please keep sharing and posting, it is helping. We are being...
Posted by Emily Jacobs on Tuesday, 15 December 2015
He left behind his other backpacker friends at Pak Up hostel, who said the Thai man, who is reported to be in his late 20s and wearing clothes that gave him a “cowboy look”, either works at or owns a farm on Koh Phi Phi Don.
“Any information no matter how small you think it is it could be huge. Any sightings or potential sightings. Any contact. Anything.
“We are being contacted hourly by people from around the world offering to help or with information.”
Ms Jacobs told MailOnline that on “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.
“That evening (Thai local time) was when he called my parents. He was upset,” she wrote.
Mr Jacobs accepted a free ride to the island from a local man from the mainland of Thailand. The island can on be reached by a 90 minute boat ride from the tourist hubs of Krabi and Phuket.
The other people Mr Jacobs had been travelling with had said he met the Thai man at a laundrette near to their hostel in Krabi.
“We have received the reports that Jordan is missing and everyone here is looking for him,” Lt Col Jertsada Junphum, the island’s chief police, told The Telegraph.
The MailOnline reported Mr Jacobs used a phone belonging to a Cypriot tourist, who told the family he had approached him barefoot, with no backpack, asking to use his phone.
When he rang, Ms Jacobs said: “He was upset and said that the man wouldn’t let him leave. That he was scared of him.
“There was no more contact until Monday morning where my brother appear online, and after few attempts I was able to speak to him on the phone using the Faceook wifi messenger”, she told MailOnline.
“I was on the phone for 90 seconds. He couldn’t or wouldn’t tell me 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.”
A spokeswoman from the Foreign Office told The Independent: “We can confirm that a British nation, Jordan Jacobs, was reported missing in Thailand on December 12 2015.
“We are providing consular assistance to the family.”
Ms Jacobs also said that her brother had been travelling for over a year in Australia and South East Asia and had no problems, and that this was very out of character.
“He had been talking about coming home last week”, she said.
Her Facebook post shows images of her brother who is tanned, with shoulder length dark hair, a beard, distinctive tattoos on his chest and forearm and around 5’ 6”.
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