Jay Slater has been missing in Tenerife for nearly three weeks
His family has been left heartbroken, as they frantically continue the search for the 19-year-old from Lancashire – carrying on after the Spanish police called an end to its search on the ground.
READ MORE: TV detective searching for Jay Slater reveals new Tenerife timeline and makes 'criminal network' bombshell His last known contact was on the morning of Monday, June 17, as he tried to return to the tourist hotspot of Los Cristianos, where he had been staying with friends Lucy Law and Brad Hargreaves. Despite an extensive two-week search, there has been no sign of Jay, according to the Mirror.
He continued to explain that once they were at the Airbnb, the unnamed friend went to sleep but Jay proceeded to be given a blanket and phone charger before leaving for to get a bus that 'comes every 10 minutes'. Once at the property, his friend opened the door, and went to the left and went straight to sleep. Jay walked in, and Qassim walked in behind him, went upstairs, and got him a red blanket," Mr Williams-Thomas said.
“Jay said he had been told by the woman the bus to Los Cristianos was every ten minutes and Qassim said there was no bus and added 'do what you like' before going to sleep." "I'm doing the geezer a favour and now my face is all over the news. It's a bit mental. I haven't even done anything." "It's like if one of you guys going missing now and letting the rest of you fly home and say we're not bothered about it. It's a massive let down. It's one of them too - you don't want to give them a hammering. I can't step on their toes."
Yet Mr Williams-Thomas ruled out the idea that Jay has been kidnapped, despite his mum Debbie previously saying she believed that was what had happened to him. He added: "We have no evidence at this stage to say there was any third-party criminal involvement in Jay's disappearance. "If he has wandered off I just can't see how he would wander all the way down there. When you're lost you stick to a path. I don't know if he was afraid of someone or something," added Mr Duncan, as theories circulate that Jay was 'scared' after leaving the Airbnb.
The £12,000 Rolex mystery The former detective has claimed that Jay had 'posted a Snapchat saying that he'd taken a £12,000 Rolex from a person'. The investigator said: "We've received information that would suggest that Jay left the rental property feeling scared and he would not return to the rental, even though that would have been the most sensible course of action.
Jay's past coming back to haunt the case In one of the latest twists to the case, former Metropolitan Police officer Mark Williams-Thomas now claims in a video posted online his disappearance has underworld connections. Mr Williams-Thomas said further digging into the investigation has opened up an established criminal network with links to drugs, violent crime and theft.
Details of Mr Hilton's attack were widely shared online after previous articles had been uncovered and re-posted on social media, amid the search efforts to locate missing Jay. In court he described the gang of eight as a 'pack of wolves' and said he was forced to run for his life through the woods before they eventually caught up with him.
He wrote: "Whoever is writing on these TikToks, give it a rest. This young lad's missing and his family's heartbroken. Put yourself in their shoes. Stop talking nonsense on social media and get this lad found, mentioning my name all this and that. Have some respect and help find this boy and get him back to his family."
'We ain't drug mules,' says Jay's pal One of Jay Slater's friends has hit back at conspiracy theories circulating on social media. Brad Hargreaves was one of Jay Slater's pals who travelled out with him to Tenerife to attend the NRG music festival - and has found himself targeted by trolls on the internet sending him abuse.
Was Jay's phone thrown to where it was last tracked? A former British Army officer believed Jay Slater's mobile thrown 'may have been thrown' prior to his disappearance. His phone last 'pinged' somewhere in the Parque Rural de Teno nature reserve, where Spanish police focused their search before they officially called off their search last Sunday.
What is the GoFundMe money being used for? A GoFundMe created by Lucy Law to 'get Jay Slater home' has now received more than £50,000 in donations as of this evening , however was the subject of much speculation online and in social media groups, with people questioning what the money would be used for. Jay's mum Debbie Duncan, who has vowed to 'never give up' on her son, was added as a beneficiary on the fundraiser and was forced to issue a public update.
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