La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain (Image: Getty)
A British tourist has gone missing after failing to board a flight home from Barcelona, Spain.
Friends say 51-year-old Daniel Thomas was last seen at lunchtime on Saturday, when his belongings were reportedly “stolen”. Friend Alix Harvey issued an urgent plea for information about her whereabouts on social media, confirming that both UK and Spanish police had been informed and the British Consulate had been alerted: “Please help!”
“Missing in Barcelona. Daniel Thomas, 51. White, British, male. Was on holiday in Barcelona since Tuesday 14 April and was due to return on Saturday 18 April, but missed his flight home. Last contact with him was via Instagram of a BCN airport employee, in which he said he had lost/stolen his passport, phone and all money and cards, but no one saw him since lunch on Saturday 18 April Or haven’t heard.”
“UK and Spanish police have information, as well as the British Consulate. If you recognize or have seen him please contact them with any information. He does not speak Spanish and needs to go to a police station or the British Consulate so arrangements can be made to take him home.”
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Mr Thomas is the most recent tourist to go missing from Spain.
Earlier this month, the worried family of 70-year-old British tourist Paul Daniel Strange made a desperate appeal to contact him after he disappeared on the same day he was due to begin the long journey in his van from the fishing and tourist town of Palomares in Almería to his home in Essex. The retired builder and locksmith, from Lee-on-Sea, was staying in a friend’s apartment.
Father-of-three Paul was found safe and sound within hours of his family publicly appealing for help, but not before his son and son-in-law flew to Spain to find him.
On February 11, British holidaymaker Ian Stanley, 79, disappeared in Nerja, on the eastern Costa del Sol, after leaving an apartment near the town’s Perla Marina hotel. He was found dead after a week-long police search of the surrounding area.
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Last month, a British tourist known only by his first name, Michael, went missing in Tenerife just hours after arriving on the island with his wife and leaving for an early morning walk. Officials were duly informed about his missing and he was also traced within a few hours.
On 6 February, Susan Hornsby, 76, from Dorset, disappeared while on holiday in Tenerife with her husband Peter. An urgent appeal has been launched after he was dramatically found in a ravine nearly 30 hours after he went missing during a three-hour walk and was taken to hospital.
Louise Bakewell, who led the appeal, later expressed her gratitude to well-wishers: “Thank you so much for all your help and advice. What a wonderful group of people.”
“Just to clarify – she went for a walk alone and then became unwell. She didn’t find my iPhone on her phone – please tell your friends and relatives to always keep it enabled if they can, just to be safe.”
