Missing British father, 65, is found alive days after disappearing in Thailand during solo retirement holiday and ‘sending desperate family odd messages’

• David spent a week in Bangkok before travelling to a resort and disappearing
• FCDO today said that they were supporting a British national in Thailand

A British father who disappeared during a solo retirement holiday in Thailand last week has been found.

David Goldthorpe, 65, from Edinburgh, was expected to return home on Sunday after more than three weeks travelling alone in the southeast Asian nation, until police revealed he had never boarded his flight from Phuket to Doha.

Relatives described receiving ‘some odd messages and then silence’ before David vanished in appeals for…