Friends and family appeal for help after Briton goes missing in Satwa

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.