Doncaster mum fears she will never see son, 13, again after disappearing with estranged dad in Portugal

Rebecca Jones, 35, said her oldest son Jayden, 13, was meant to return with Andrew Pearson, 33, following a ten-day trip to the Algarve last August.

But the plasterer failed to show up with the teenager on his late-night return flight to Britain before he blocked the mother-of-two and her family from calling him.

Rebecca has reported her son missing to police in the UK and Portugal and has travelled overseas to search for him.

She has now made a devastating appeal for her son to come home just over a month before he turns 14, saying: 'We just want to celebrate your birthday, Jayden.'

Earlier this week, the Free Press revealed details of the heartbreaking case, and Rebecca has now given an in depth interview about her son.

Rebecca, an NHS healthcare assistant, said: 'He went on holiday, and I had no reason to think he would not come home. I felt I could trust the man who had my children.

'Every day I think, "Will I ever see my eldest boy again?" I just want him home where he belongs.

'He has taken my boy. His birthday is coming up soon. As a family, we will try and make it special, but it's not going to be the same without him.'

Rebecca said Andrew jetted off with Jayden for the ten-day break to the city of Lagos, on Portugal's southern tip, in August last year.

She said she had retained custody of Jayden and his brother, Mathew, 11, since 2019 after her relationship broke down with Andrew.

However, she'd agreed that he could take their eldest son on the sunshine trip before he started a new school year.

Rebecca said the pair were booked on a 6.45pm flight and were due to arrive at East Midlands Airport on September 14 last year at about 10pm.

She even had a taxi waiting for them, but she was left frantic when the pair failed to show up before the penny dropped and she realised Andrew had blocked her number on his phone.

She said: 'At first, I kept trying to call him, kept trying to text him. I thought something had happened. I thought he might have had an accident.

'And then he blocked me, and blocked all my family.'

'It was just a holiday. When he didn't return I was numb, I was worried, I was scared and I was heartbroken.'

Rebecca said she had kept trying to reach Andrew and when that failed, she reported him and her son as missing to UK police on around September 22 last year.

The distressed mum went on to create posters and shared them on social media in the hope that someone would see Jayden's face and identify his whereabouts.

But after Andrew was sighted and photographed at a farm resort in the Nazaré region of Portugal, 250 miles from Lagos, she says she received threatening messages from him about her heartfelt pleas.

And he even suggested that he was now planning to take Jayden to Bulgaria.

Rebecca now thinks that Andrew had planned all along to use the trip to take her son away from her and split up their children

They read: 'Well done. Thanks* You've successfully f***ed us both. Clap clap. Hopefully no f***ing bears eat us!

'If we successfully make it to Bulgaria I will make contact then. Good night sleep well!'

Rebecca flew out to Portugal on January 22 this year, in the hope of finding Jayden before reporting them both as missing to local authorities six days later.

She said local police had searched the farm resort where Andrew was spotted three times, but none of these had tuned up any new clues.

She said: 'It was a holiday for him - it was meant to be a ten-day holiday. He organised it. At the time, I didn't suspect anything. But now I feel like he planned it all along.

'He has not got any family with him, or anyone out there. And if anything happened to him, what happens to Jayden?'

Jayden's 14 birthday will be on May 11.

A South Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: 'We can confirm we have received a report and we are treating Andrew and Jayden as missing persons.'