'Something is really wrong for him not to contact anybody'

Mum to fly out to Malaysia where son was last seen in Irish bar

- BY WESLEY HOLMES

A SOUTHPORT man on a solo tour of South East Asia has gone missing while backpacking in Malaysia.

Jordan Johnson-Doyle, 25, has not been heard from since Tuesday, May 27.

Family and friends spent days frantically trying to get in touch with him by phone, email and social media before his phone went dead on Friday, May 30.

His mum Leanne Burnett said: “I have been been feeling just sick, numb.

“I just want to get over there, find him and bring him home. I want him to know we're looking for him and we're coming to get him.

“I have no idea what has happened.

“All I know is something is really wrong for him not to contact anybody.

“I know what he’s like and he knows how worried everyone gets at home, that’s why he checks in all the time.

“If he was to lose his phone and laptop, if someone had stolen that off him, he knows my number by heart and he would contact.

“He would go to the nearest hotel to use the phone or go to an internet cafe. He'd find a way to get hold of us.”

Jordan's last known location was the Healy Mac's Irish Bar in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, at around 8pm on Tuesday, May 27, when he sent his best friend Owen a photograph of the pub's quiz night poster.

“He is also believed to have visited The Social, a bar near Healy Mac's.

On Wednesday morning BST (seven hours behind Malaysia), Leanne said she checked the Find My iPhone tracking service for the location of her son’s mobile phone and saw it was located at a residential flat block near the bar.