POLICE are searching for a missing Brit last seen a week ago kayaking out of a Costa Blanca marina.
Kenny McPherson’s worried family admit they fear he may have been carried out to sea by strong currents and have launched social media appeals for information on the 62-year-old.
The Scots-born offshore survey engineer flew to Spain earlier this month from his home in Aberdeen to spend a few weeks at his holiday home near the resort of Torrevieja where he was last seen.
He vanished last Saturday morning (Nov 23).
His wife Alexandra Mitchell and his stepchildren Anna Mitchell, 22, and Alexander, 27, have now flown to the Costa Blanca to help in the search.
Aberdeen Grammar School-educated Anna said today/yesterday (SAT): “We are obviously very concerned for my stepdad’s wellbeing as he’s been missing now for a week.
“We’ve discounted this being a voluntary disappearance. There’s no reason why he would have wanted to go missing.
“When we got flights over and arrived at the house, we found everything had been left just as if he had popped out to the shops or something.
“My mum said he had kayaked when they had been abroad with a tutor but on this particular occasion he had decided he wanted to do a bit by himself.
“He had purchased a kayak in Spain and been out on the Friday before he went missing just down the road from where he was last seen.
“We were unaware he was going to go out on the Saturday again.
“Neighbours saw him leave with the distinctive lime green kayak early in the morning. His car which is a Spanish-plated metallic blue Skoda Fabia was left at Torrevieja Marina.”
Speaking today/yesterday (SAT), she added: “The police have organised land, sea and air searches but there’s been nothing so far.
“He apparently talked about wanting to go fishing in the kayak to some neighbours so he could have gone further out to sea than he had on the Friday.
“The weather conditions early in the morning last Saturday were good but we were told it got bad later in the day and the wind speed picked up around midday and the sea turned quite choppy.
“We went round with some missing posters and spoke to people at the beach to see if we could get any clues to what might have happened.
“Some people we talked to said they had seen a similar kayak to the one my stepdad went out in bobbing around in the marina close to the beach two days ago but we went out yesterday and it’s not been seen since.”
Kenny’s wife Alexandra Mitchell, also from Aberdeen, said: “The police are working very hard but as of yet we have very little to go by.
“We just want Kenny home safe and sound and miss him greatly.
“Any information, no matter how little, would be greatly appreciated.”
Mr McPherson, whose full name is Kenneth Dallas McPherson, is described as 5ft 11 inches tall and of medium build with a white goatee beard and short greyish white hair.
There is no information on the clothes he was wearing.
The search for the missing Brit is being led by the local Civil Guard force. Officers could not be reached today/yesterday (SAT) for comment.
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