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A community newsletter for the western Algarve
Mother makes heartfelt appeal for missing son
By Len Port
passport and mobile phone. His employer informed the local police. No record was found of Jon being admitted to a hospital and there was no response to appeals on his Facebook page. In addition to the PSP and the PJ, the Maritime Police became involved when a surfer, Tiago Dias, alerted the authorities that he had seen a man getting into difficulties off the beach at Monte Clérigo beach on the west coast. A sea and air search failed to find any trace of the man in the water and his identity is still unknown.
In the hope that her son Jon Anderson Edwards is still alive after disappearing from Lagos in the middle of September, his mother has issued a heartfelt plea: “If Jon is safe somewhere, I would beg that he gets in touch with someone, whether it be me, my daughter or friends.” Lesley Edwards, 53, lives in Jon’s hometown of Arbroath in eastern Scotland, as does her daughter Kenna Balion. Both came to the Algarve to help in the search for Jon but had to return home deeply disappointed. “To give us strength, we would like to imagine that Jon is somewhere safe, maybe needing to be alone. If it was the case that he just needed time away from everything, I
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would understand as long as I knew he was safe,” said Mrs Edwards. Jon arrived in Portugal at the end of August to take up a job as a sous chef at the Rockfood Café in Lagos. He went home feeling unwell one day having said he had fallen on a hill and knocked himself unconscious the previous night. His employer, Dago Lipke, went to the apartment Edwards shared with two others and suggested he went to hospital because he was suffered from headaches and dizziness. Jon said he was getting better, but within a few days he had gone missing, leaving behind his belongings, including clothes,
Jon, who was widely travelled, described himself on a ‘workaway’ information website as 30-years old with “a lot of hospitality experience in kitchens and also in bar work as well as general hotel experience.” He went on to say: “I am a very hard worker and would be willing to turn my hand to most tasks, or even learn new skills that could benefit both myself and the host. “I have no problem with long hours or physically arduous jobs, I actually really enjoy throwing myself fully into a project because of the satisfaction that it brings to be part of something. “I am not looking for a free holiday though, I am looking for challenges, experiences, Continued on Page 6 »
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