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I will not rest until my jet skiing husband is found – alive or dead
THE wife of a jet skier still missing in Bali has pledged to continue funding search operations for as long as it takes to confirm his fate and has already put £10,000 into the hunt.
Jacqui Hoyland said yesterday she will not stop looking for her husband even though the authorities in Bali have given up searching.
Jeremy Hoyland, 41, from Penistone, near Barnsley, has not been seen since October 24, when he went out with four friends on jet skis to the islet of Nusa Lembongan, off the coast of Bali.
Now his wife, who has returned to the UK after 11 days looking for him, is desperately appealing for help from the Government to help her to persuade the Indonesian authorities to act.
The local school attended by Mr Hoyland's two daughters has organised a charity concert in order to raise funds to help Mrs Hoyland, who has already spent 10,000 of her own money on the search.
She has hired helicopters to drop leaflets offering a $10,000 reward over remote fishing villages in the area.
She said she is convinced her husband could still be alive and is determined to do whatever it takes to find some sign of his whereabouts.
"At the moment, I'm using family money to keep the search going," she said. "I have a private company which will stand 100,000 more and I will spend it all. I will not stop until I find him. I'm a realist, but I have to know either way. I have to bring him home – alive or dead. I have to do that for my daughters at least.
"I desperately need help and support from the Government, and I haven't got that yet."
Mrs Hoyland said that even though the authorities in Bali had stopped the search, she was convinced it was premature as he could have made it to a remote island.
She said: "I only found out at the weekend that they stopped looking for Jeremy on October 31. I'm absolutely devastated. I know that if he is alive, Jeremy will not give in. But I understand that every day that goes by, our chance of finding him are slipping away.
"They've found no wreckage, jet skis don't sink and if he's managed to get to an island somewhere, I know he'll survive.
"Every night we light him a candle so he can see his way home."
Tomorrow, a charity concert will be held at St John's Junior School in Penistone.
Mr Hoyland's youngest daughter, Georgia, 11, is a pupil there and will be singing at the event. His other daughter, Ellena, 13, is a former pupil and will be at the concert.
The school's headteacher, Antoinette Drinkhill, said: "I think that this will be so important for the family. It is vital for them to know that everybody in the community is thinking about them and wants to help them out."
Friends of the family said any money raised at the concert would be funnelled straight into search operations in Bali.
Mr Hoyland is a veteran jet skier and was in Bali as a guest of the Asian Beach Games.
After the trip with his friends, he had planned to return to Bali's Tanjung Benoa beach a few hours later to preside over a jet ski race.
He sent a text message from his mobile phone about five hours after his friends returned to say he was about two miles from the beach and needed help. Since then, no one has seen or heard from him.
Mrs Hoyland has appealed to local MPs to help publicise her case and Sir Richard Branson has been in touch with the family to offer his support.
Tomorrow's concert will take place at the Paramount Cinema, Penistone on Wednesday 12th November 2.00-3.00pm. Tickets cost 4 for adults and 3 for concessions. All proceeds will go to the Jeremy Hoyland Rescue Fund.
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