Police in Kenya have launched an extensive search operation after Briton Nelson Newberry (22) disappeared without a trace earlier this week. The latest tangible clue was that the 22-year-old went out to buy a new SIM card on Tuesday, he writes Independent.
“Last seen wearing a black t-shirt and black trousers at 11am at the Sarit Center in Nairobi,” reads the text of a Kenyan National Police wanted poster.
WANTED: Police wanted Newberry by name and photo. Photo: Kenyan Criminal Police
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Family and friends back home in the UK “panicked” when Newberry was nowhere to be found and her father immediately boarded the flight to Kenya to join the search.
The turning point came on Friday. Then a large force from several police agencies raided a restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi.
“The 22-year-old named Nelson Newberry was found in a local pub in Uthiru in Kiambu county where he was drinking with newly acquired friends,” writes the Criminal Police on Chirping.
NEW FRIENDS: Newberry was found with “newly made friends” in this pub on the outskirts of Nairobi. Photo: Kenyan Criminal Police
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The police took the “rescued” Briton with them, who was hospitalized for treatment. In the photos, the 22-year-old is clearly wounded in the face, for unknown reasons.
In other photos, Newberry is happily reunited with his father, who landed in Kenya just in time to learn his son had been found.
It has not been revealed what the Briton did during the time he was away, nor why he disappeared.
