Jay's family have been left heartbroken as they continue to search for the 19 year old, whose whereabouts remain unknown after Spanish police called off the land search
Jay Slater has now been missing for three weeks after disappearing in Tenerife. His family has been left heartbroken, as they frantically continue the search for the 19-year-old after the Spanish police called an end to its search on the ground.
READ MORE: Jay Slater 'left Airbnb because he was hungry' claims TV detective as Tenerife search continues 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. Mark shared a video online updating the public in which he revealed he had spoken with Qassim. Mr Williams-Thomas said: "He told me he was on the Strip in Playa de las Americas and said that Jay wanted to carry on partying and that he hadn't anywhere to stay, so he invited him back to his rental. In the car they played music all the way, they stopped once to get a can of fizzy drink, and there was three of them in the car, Jay in the back and Qassim's friend in the front.
"He said that after moving the car, he came back and saw Jay had his trainers on and he told Qassim that the woman had said he could get a bus 'every ten minutes'. Qassim said to him "Chill, mate, I'll drop you off later, when I wake up' but he said Jay said 'nah, I need some scran, I'm hungry'. "I let the geezer stay at mine because he had nowhere else to go, his friends had all left him. I know Jay, through friends, I'm not going to bring someone back to mine if I don't know them. 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."
Jay's friend Lucy Law, who travelled with him to the Canary Islands, was one of the last people to speak to him around 8am on the morning he went missing. In an interview on July 18, Ms Law said: "Jay was obviously thinking he would be able to get home from there. But then in the morning he's set off walking, using his Maps on his phone and ended up in the middle of mountains with nothing around. He rang me at about 8 o'clock morning saying his phone was on 1%.
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 €14k 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 phone '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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