Missing lad in Tenerife, Jay Slater

The parents may have some of the answers Callistemon just choose not to share them.
Well done to the Greek authorities who continued searching, they deserve credit for their perseverance.

i thought it was spanish ?
anyway, point remains.
and i agree with MOnica.

JenniferEccles

It’s every parents worst nightmare isn’t it? Our teens get to the stage of wanting to go away on holiday with a group of friends, and most of the time of course everything is fine and they have a great time.

This lad’s parents though must be suffering agonies. I do hope he’s soon found safe and well.

It is a sad state of affairs but the boy in question had a questionable lifestyle and if you mix in those circles then you can never know what may happen.

It is the parents I feel sorry for because what he has done or not done, he is still their son.

I always say, there for the grace of God go I. Thankfully our sons grew into men to be proud of but it could have easily gone the other way especially when they started mixing with different types of people in their age group. We do try and raise our children with wisdom and knowledge, knowing right from wrong, but sadly, in many cases it does not work.

He has been found but not alive which is so sad. Condolences to his family.

The poor boy, and his poor parents. God knows what they’ve been going through, and still are.

maddyone

Assuming it is Jay Slater, I wonder why he would have taken the route he took. I still wonder about the two men who have been rather too smartly dismissed in my opinion. Why did he go with them? Why did he leave? And why didn’t they offer him a lift? Was he trying to escape from them? I feel they know more than they’ve said, at the very least why he left so early and why they didn’t give him a lift. And why he went with them in the first place.

And why didn’t they offer him a lift

According to one of the men interviewed, they (or he) was prepared to give him a lift back - but not at that time in the morning. Young men, partying all night, quite frequently are not ready to be civilised until they've caught up with their sleep... I had one at home 30 odd years ago - totally selfish.

Young Jay told this person that he needed some "scran" - because he was hungry, so that might have been what prompted him to head back alone, totally unaware of the kind of terrain he was in - apart from the view from the road. Young men (and women) do not think strategically and clearly until the age of about 25, so it's quite feasible that he thought he could walk back - not knowing how long his friends were going to continue to sleep - there well may not have been any food in that Airbnb either.

This is just pure speculation on my part based on what the friend told the news reporter. Sometimes things look 'odd' and "don't sit right" because we base our assumptions on what we would do.

And my speculation is to counter the the conspiracy-type theories that are now being promoted. Maybe drugs were involved, lots of young people indulge the habit. It also, according to my son, can make you very hungry. But the fact that drugs might have been involved does not make his Airbnb companions sinister accomplices in some plot to 'get' young Jay. It is still quite feasible that they were just lazy a**eholes who couldn't be bothered to do the decent thing and take him back to his accommodation.

I may be completely wrong, of course, but so might all those who are looking for a sinister twist to this young lad's disappearance.

welbeck

i thought it was spanish ?
anyway, point remains.
and i agree with MOnica.

Sorry, you’re right, brain was elsewhere!

Maddy I think you’re reading more into the two men than necessary as I read it they have been spoken to with no red flags
I can definitely imagine how he may have woken up and been keen to get back to his two friends
At 19 young men don’t always see danger and they feel pretty invincible he probably didn’t think it through at all ‘I m off I can easily walk it as the bus isn’t due for ages ‘ He probably never gave a thought to terrain or temperature or distance, just let’s get going young people aren’t renowned for patience or sitting back waiting like we would
It’s very sad but better I suppose than never knowing
Many people go missing every year but some make the news more than others I never understand why.

I believe this is a sad situation of a young man who’d been ‘partying ‘ for days, making poor decisions.
He was almost certainly hungry, coming out of whatever he’d consumed, probably dehydrated before he started walking. He’d no idea where he was and I don’t expect he’d any idea how tough the terrain is.
The two older men stayed on 24 hours to cooperate with police interviews and found to have nothing to do with his disappearance.
Sadly young people take risks, even when entirely sober and in charge of their faculties. Mostly they get out ok but unfortunate this young man didn’t

I suspect you are right !am64

Yes I suspect the explanation is mundane rather than sinister. Young people, men in particular make all sorts of unwise decisions. I know I did, most of us were just lucky.

I hitch hiked round North Wales with my best pal. We were 16- 17 and on holiday with my parents. We promised every morning when we left our rented farmhouse thst we wouldn’t hitch hike. Mum and dad had my younger sisters with them and our car wouldn’t fit all of us in. I’d gone to Wales with my friend, on a coach to join the family holiday. We were having more independence than we’d ever had. Hitch hiking seemed cool. Yes we lied - not something we made a habit of but we were naive and yiung

I saw mention of temperatures... However, the high that day was 26C, the low 18C. It didn't go above 26C that whole week... Temperature wasn't an issue.

See here: www.timeanddate.com/weather/@6360640/historic?month=6&year=2024 - this is for Santiago Del Teide, very close to Masca.

And also that he was walking back to his accommodation... No he wasn't, he left the road, and was walking up a hill. If he wanted scran, he could walk (along the road) to Santiago del Teide, there are shops there, unlike in the nature reserve.

Not saying there's third party involvement (he was seen walking up the hill by himself by a lady), but also it's not a case of deciding to walk because he missed the bus. Who knows, perhaps he just wanted to see the view from the top and take a selfie...

What’s scran?

He could have been walking in that direction because he’d been threatened by the two men he stayed overnight with, and didn’t want to walk on the normal road where they could easily find him. They left Tenerife very quickly after his disappearance. One of them was a known drug dealer.
I simply don’t think this is as straightforward as we are led to believe. Why did he go back to the house in the village with these older men? No reason has beeen given despite the fact that the men were apparently interviewed by the police. To leave his friends and go to a mountain village with two older men and then leave the village and walk off the road which led by to the coast, and head into rough terrain isn’t normal, however much we try to normalise it. Something was going on, but we don’t know what. Those two men need to be interviewed here in the UK by our police who are thorough.

I thought scran was a UK word. It means food. This was the reason one of those men said Jay gave him for wanting to leave. He used the word scran.

But I agree with you, it might not be as simple as it seems... the reasons they gave for why they took Jay with them and then for why he left both leave something to be desired.

I wonder if the Rolex was found with Jay or was just an empty rumor...

You’re determined to make a crime out of this and involve the two men aren’t you Maddy there probably was more to why he went to their rental overnight and it probably involved drugs The police don’t seem to have anything on them at all Either there or here
He surely would have told his friend in the couple of minutes before his phone died…. wouldnt he have said ‘I need help I m trying to get away from a and b’ instead of ‘I ve missed a bus and there isn’t one for hours so I m going to walk back’

It always easier to think someone else caused a fatality than teenage silliness
Anyway I m sure it ll come out if there is any reason to think foul play

'scran' does mean food, but it is a dialect word, used in north of England/Scotland, so not widely kown or widely used.

I am not a conspiracy theorist.It is like Michael Moseley, why did someone as a aware as he was doing walking mountain paths at the height of summer in blistering heat and sunshine with a small drink and umbrella

The answer is, even the most sensible of us some timesdo really stupid things. Whatever went on before this lad set off to walk back to his friends - maay be he had a row with those men, maybe he wanted drugs and they didn't have any, so what. Why didn't he just stick to the road? We will never know, he just made a bad call and the result is tragic.

Scran is north east working class slang for food.

Maddyone, the two men met Jay at a festival. Drugs are everywhere in those gatherings. Jay wasn’t a stranger to drugs or dealers. The men co-operated with the police in Tenerife, extended their visit to be interviewed. Police concluded they weren’t involved in his disappearance.

It’s tragic but it seems Jay made poor decisions. He’d been partying for 3 days and would have been wise to accept the lift the men offered once he’d slept. He set off tired, hungry and possibly already dehydrated, over wild inhospitable terrain. It seems a tragic accident not some kind of murder mystery

Iam64

Scran is north east working class slang for food.

Maddyone, the two men met Jay at a festival. Drugs are everywhere in those gatherings. Jay wasn’t a stranger to drugs or dealers. The men co-operated with the police in Tenerife, extended their visit to be interviewed. Police concluded they weren’t involved in his disappearance.

It’s tragic but it seems Jay made poor decisions. He’d been partying for 3 days and would have been wise to accept the lift the men offered once he’d slept. He set off tired, hungry and possibly already dehydrated, over wild inhospitable terrain. It seems a tragic accident not some kind of murder mystery

I believe also Iam64 that the men were not complete strangers to Jay either. I don't know when he met them previously, but they had spoken before the night he went back with them.

It's quite feasible they all took drugs of some sort or other and that's the reason Jay went back with them, and why they wanted to sleep. He, Jay, posted a photo of himself standing in the doorway of the Airbnb smoking a cigarette fairly early in the morning. I doubt he slept on a bed, more likely on some sort of sofa with the blanket round him that they'd given him and which is visible in the snapshot of him. So more than likely he was uncomfortable and hungry and that's why he decided to leg it back to his accommodation.

Why he went uphill - who knows... maybe he thought there might be somewhere selling food and had looked down the road and couldn't see any buildings so tried uphill. Maybe he thought also that he could short-cut it off the main road. All guesses on my part of course.

However, if he'd been afraid of the men, I doubt he'd have stood in the doorway taking selfies of himself to send to his friend(s).

I believe the two men were due to vacate the Airbnb, but agreed to stay in Tenerife to be interviewed further. Would the police have let them go if they had an inkling of suspicion about them and Jay's disappearance? They would be prime suspects.

His mother is now appealing for more money ‘to give him a good send off’ £59k raised so far.

Very tacky

Jaxjacky

His mother is now appealing for more money ‘to give him a good send off’ £59k raised so far.

That’s beginning to sound greedy.

I hope whoever is in charge of the money raised by Go Fund Me will donate a significant sum to the Spanish volunteers, , Guardia Civil officers and dog handlers who maintained a dangerous search over 29 days

Jaxjacky

His mother is now appealing for more money ‘to give him a good send off’ £59k raised so far.

That’s sheer greed in my opinion, appalling behaviour. Surely nearly £60k is more than enough?

Good grief more money that’s not a good move at all looks awful gimmi gimmi
Iam64 I agree the volunteers should be rewarded