Ranulph Fiennes’s stepson says he is in contact with police about explorer’s wellbeing

Questions have been raised in recent months about the welfare of Ranulph Fiennes, above, who has not been seen in public for two years. Photograph: Kevin Nicholson/Alamy

The stepson of Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been contacted by police and says he intends to speak to them this week over his concerns about the explorer’’s wellbeing.

Alexander Millington-Cotes – who is estranged from his mother, Louise, Fiennes’s second and current wife – said an officer from Cheshire police had called him in recent days.