Steven Weare, 49-year-old director of Fylde Motor Company, was last seen a week ago in a Burger King car park near Bridgetown

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A British businessman has been missing for a week in Barbados.

Steven Weare, 49, disappeared last Wednesday, sparking an island-wide hunt by the Royal Barbados police force.

The car salesman, from Kirkham in Lancashire, had reportedly been staying at Newcastle Plantation House in the St John area on the east of the Caribbean island, when he was reported missing on 23 August.



Weare is listed as a director of Fylde Motor Company, sometimes known as Rock Cars, a family-run business set up 18 years ago in Kirkham, a small town between Preston and Blackpool.

Callers to the firm on Wednesday were being referred to Lancashire constabulary. A spokesman for the force said: “We are aware he is missing and inquiries are ongoing with police in Barbados to locate him.”

The Foreign Office confirmed officials were in contact with police on the island and were supporting Weare’s family.

The businessman is believed to be a regular visitor to Barbados and his family are thought to have a property on the island.

Acting inspector Rodney Inniss, of the Royal Barbados police force’s public relations department, said they were following several lines of inquiry.



He reiterated the force’s appeal for information, adding: “I want to reassure the family and friends of Mr Weare that we are taking this very seriously and giving this matter out full attention. I understand it must be a worrying time for them.

“The investigation is at a very sensitive point and we had the commissioner of police down yesterday taking an interest.”



Reports in Barbados say Weare was last seen in the car park of a Burger King restaurant on University Drive in Black Rock, near Bridgetown in St Michael. It is believed he had been selling cars during his time on the island.

Weare was said to have been driving a silver Mitsubishi Warrior pick-up truck with the registration J4000 on the day he disappeared.

He was wearing a white short-sleeved button-down linen shirt, royal blue chinos and a similar coloured pair of loafers, according to the Barbados-based Nation News website.

A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokeswoman said: “Our staff are supporting the family of a British man who has been reported missing in Barbados. We are in contact with the local police.”