By Jonathan Samuels, Australia Correspondent
A mother has flown from Scotland to Australia in a desperate attempt to find her son who has gone missing while backpacking.
Judith Ansell said her son was "distressed" when he spoke to her on the phone from Australia before he vanished two weeks ago.
Jonathan Ansell, 27, disappeared from Melbourne and is believed to have had no passport or money, and with no place to stay had been forced to sleep rough.
His mother believes he also had no mobile phone and had called her in Scotland from a payphone.
"I think he must have been calling from a phone box and didn't have any more money and it just got cut off," she told reporters in Melbourne on Tuesday.
"He said he had run out of money, and was living rough."
Mr Ansell, from Glasgow, came to Australia on a work visa in April 2013 which ran out in April 2014.
He had been working on Hamilton Island, a popular holiday resort, before heading off to travel, visiting Sydney and Byron Bay.
In February, he met up with friends in Sydney, where his Scottish bank records indicate the last use of a credit card.
Victoria Police are checking to see if he had an Australian bank account that could shed more light on his movements. They believe he may have travelled into a rural area of the state.
Mrs Ansell described her son as affable, but extremely quiet and she said he was unlikely to approach people to ask for help.
A Twitter account called @Find_Jonathan has been set up and his sister Kate has also started a campaign on Facebook urging anyone with information to come forward.
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