Police confirm Hatched restaurant owner Gerald Tan is found
[UPDATE at 8:15pm on Wednesday, 21 January 2015: Adding news of Tan being found]
The founder and owner of egg specialty eatery Hatched in Holland Village was found almost three weeks after going missing, police confirmed on Wednesday.
They gave no further information about his status or current whereabouts, however.
Police had earlier issued a notice on 14 January, saying that 32-year-old Gerald Tan Wei Jian was missing since 2 January. On that day, he was seen at about 2pm along Kheam Hock Road wearing a green T-shirt with olive-green bermudas.
He was also described as being about 1.7m tall, with a dark complexion and a plump build.
Friends and acquaintances of his whom Yahoo Singapore spoke to described him as a friendly, book- and street-smart person.
Yahoo Singapore understands that Tan received the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Local Study Award in 2001, and opened Hatched in 2009 shortly after he finished serving out his bond with the SAF.
On her Facebook page, his Thai wife, Wilawan Tothong, expressed her distress over his disappearance. In an English status update on Wednesday afternoon, she wrote, "Where are you ?? Hope everything will be ok soon..Pls God protect him".
She also posted a screenshot of the missing person notice issued by the police in a subsequent update. She wrote in Thai, "If you had a husband who suddenly went missing, what would you do?" She and Tan tied the knot in December 2013.
