UAE | Crime
Friends and family appeal for help after Briton goes missing in Satwa
Friends and family of a missing 25-year-old British man are appealing for help in the search to locate his whereabouts.
- By Kevin Scott, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:45 December 13, 2008
- Image Credit: Supplied picture
- McKeown (circled) with friends Melvyn McQuade and Louise Dorgan in a restaurant on the night he disappeared. He was last seen leaving a hotel at around 9.30pm.
Dubai: Friends and family of a missing 25-year-old British man are appealing for help in the search to locate his whereabouts.
Stephen McKeown, originally from Middlesborough, England, was last seen on Friday, December 5, in the Aussie Legends bar at Satwa's Rydges Plaza hotel, Gulf News has learnt.
He was having a night out with friends.
CCTV footage showed him leaving the hotel and walking in the direction of Satwa roundabout at approximately 9.30pm. Nobody has heard from him since.
Stephen had been living in the UAE for about a year, but faced a difficult time moving between various jobs.
Mystery
Natalie Jeynes, 24, was in a relationship with Stephen for about seven years and they remain close friends. She told Gulf News that Stephen had been staying with her at her home in The Gardens in the days before his disappearance.
She said: "He had just lost his job, but I still have his passport so he has definitely not left the country. His mobile phone has been switched off since Friday and the Dubai Police has checked all the city's hospitals, jails and morgues."
Police were not available for comment, on Saturday.
"I have spoken to all of his friends and nobody has heard anything. Stephen is quite a jack-the-lad type and he has been known to disappear for the odd weekend but I'm very worried because he's never done anything like this before," she added.
Stephen's family back in the UK have lodged a missing persons report with local police and the UAE Embassy in the UK.
Community Reports
-
Mirror, mirror show me the way
Driver on Salam Street had so many boxes and fruits piled into car, he would not be able to view rear or right side mirrors
-
Parents should be more vigilant
Reader's picture highlights risk of negligence by caretakers
-
Warming up to ‘Mobilise the Earth' theme
Dubai school dedicates a whole week to celebrating Earth Day with can-collection drives, sapling plantation and painting competition among others
-
Drivers using mobiles put others' lives at risk
Speeding is dangerous for the driver and other motorists
Latest news
- Youngsters dance and raise cash for charity
- Dubai departments upgrade services
- Get yourself a free test for diabetes
- Ensuring a safety net for intellectual property
- Reader's issue addressed
- 5,552 illegals held in Dubai this year
- Man cleared because he took drugs in France
- Man charged with trafficking women
- Auditors to probe Mizin graft case
- Transfusion centre launches new toll free number
- Mirror, mirror show me the way
- Last minute ID rush is on
- Breaking down cultural barriers with photographs
- Car seats for children: Unsafe at any speed
- Abu Dhabi Crown Prince visits Islamic centre
