Jordan Johnson-Doyle, 25, vanished in Malaysia while on a solo backpacking tour of South East Asia – his worried mum said ‘something is really wrong’ and shared what he said in his last call to her
The mother of a young British man who has gone missing while on a solo backpacking tour of South East Asia said “something is really wrong”.
Jordan Johnson-Doyle vanished in Malaysia and has not been heard from since May 27. Family and friends have not been able to get in contact with the 25-year-old from Southport, despite trying to call and reach out on social media but they said his phone died on Friday. The software engineer’s mum Leanne Burnett said she felt “sick” and “numb” after her son went missing, saying he usually checks in with them while away.
Jordan’s last known location was the Healy Mac’s Irish Bar in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, at around 8pm on May 27. The 25-year-old had sent his best friend Owen a picture of the pub’s quiz night poster and Jordan is believed to have also visited another nearby bar called The Social.
Mum Leanne, 44, on Wednesday morning UK time, said she checked her son’s location through the Find My iPhone function and saw it located at a residential block of flats near the bar. The desperate mother told the Liverpool Echo why she was particularly worried about her son as this was unusual behaviour for him.
She 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 café. He’d find a way to get hold of us.”
The heartbroken mum said she would talk to her son everyday and looked at his location each day before going to be and when she wakes up in the morning. She added: “But when I woke up on the Wednesday morning, his Find My iPhone had not updated. It just said ‘last seen 11 hours ago.'”
She added: “I carried on tracking him throughout the day, trying to phone him as well. I couldn’t get hold of him on Facebook or Instagram. If he does lose his phone, he usually messages me on Facebook or Instagram.” Jordan’s phone died three days after he was last seen.
Jordan was working abroad for about a year and a half but had been backpacking around the Mediterranean and South East Asia for the past few weeks. The 25-year-old had been in Vietnam before entering Malaysia on May 17.
Leanne said she called the police immediately after she could not get in touch with her son and has since contacted the British Consulate and police in Malaysia, as well as his workplace and the hotel he was believed to be staying in.
The mum also said “nothing stood out” in the last call she had with her son and said “he seemed absolutely fine and normal”, saying: “We always end the phone call with ‘love long time’ and that was the very last thing we said to each other.” She revealed his dad was travelling to Malaysia and she is also set to fly out tomorrow with Jordan’s brother, his stepdad and his best friends.