Missing lad in Tenerife, Jay Slater

lemsip

Casdon

If you were in a bar and saw somebody who was currently front page headlines and costing the local police a lot of time and effort to find, you would contact the police straight away and tell them, surely?

and that is exactly what happened if you read article!

That’s not what the article said lemsip, it said police had interviewed several witnesses, but not that they were contacted while he was allegedly in the bar, the evidence was the video footage.

Sadly , I also think the ending will not be a good one . Going off with 2 people he had just met didn’t sound good . When you add the supposition of drugs to the mix plus setting off to walk in high temperatures with no water in an area of dangerous terrain , that’s all enough to tell you the ending .
The conviction is not good , though I’m not sure that it would have anything to do with his not being found or being missing !
Last night we went for a family meal with 3 Twenty plus aged relations , they all think it was / is drug related with one exception being a ‘ kidnapping ‘ also that the ‘friends’ aren’t telling the whole
Story .
Very sad no the less for the family & even worse all the online trolls 👿

comrade

Well obviously we don't know what happened but in any disappearance case you have to ask: "When did the trouble start?"

In my opinion the men Jay was staying with should have offered him a ride. They should have offered to charge his phone. Given him a bottle of water..

But I was just wondering why they took him home in the first place. Maybe we will never know

The question isn’t ’why did they take him home’ but rather ‘ why did he go’? ?
He was in his 1st foreign holiday with friends & went off with 2 people he had just met , got in a car & not knowing where to !
Maybe , he left in a hurry in the morning, though it wasn’t that early as buses were running every 10 minutes, why didn’t he wait for a bus ?
Did he even have money on him ?
He might have had access to his bank card on his phone that had died , maybe for not waiting for a bus as it’s been reported that he was told they were every 10mins .
There was a shop or cafe of some sort that was due to open at 10am common sense would of dictated he could wait for it to open , ask for water & possibly charge his phone or just ask for help .
Even so , he made an error of judgement leaving a club with people he didn’t know plus making the decision to ‘walk’ when he wasn’t even aware of his location .
He was probably disoriented by any number of things , drugs, drink, maybe he had been spiked .
Whatever it is incredibly sad & a lesson for all first time teens going it alone abroad 🙏

Sago

Another GFM page with 30K plus already.

The boy was in Tenerife for nefarious reasons.

This is not just a missing boy.

Sago
Oh dear 😅

Dickens

Trying to resist the urge to be an armchair detective - mostly successfully. But, and this is just a personal observation and is not based on any known facts in this case - I find it rather odd that a young teen of 19 would separate himself from his peers and go off with two much older men.

I believe the younger of the two men was in his 30s - which is not old - but when I was 19, it seemed very old to me. And the other was about 40?

Not the kind of companions teenagers usually seek out.

I think that what is important is to know why he decided to back to their pad.

I could understand if he'd met up with another group of lads his own age and was going back to their B&B to "party"- that's what teens often do.

But to get in a car with two older men he'd only just met? What were they offering that was attractive to him?

Anyway, I shall not speculate further. Because things are not always what they seem to be and there is wild speculation already all over social media.

Dickens
I totally agree

☹ the omens are not good after all this time.

Maybe , he left in a hurry in the morning, though it wasn’t that early as buses were running every 10 minutes, why didn’t he wait for a bus ?

I find it difficult to believe that buses ran every 10minutes in such a remote area.

Yes, perhaps his drink was spiked (speculation, sorry) as it was reported he was staggering around in the nightclub. Where were his friends when this happened?

There was a bus at 8 a.m and another at 10 a.m which suggests buses run every two hours.Not every 10 minutes.

The search must be costing a fortune in resources, probably to the detriment of their normal duties, I feel sorry for the people conducting it. There is so much media focus, how long do they keep looking?

What his parents must be going through, when it first came out about him it seemed so poor lad why would you get into a strange car with 2 unknown men in a foreign country never mind this one. Now it’s come out about what he’s done in past and into its starting to look a bit jiffy. Hopefully he will get found safely but after this long it’s not looking good

His mother is now in negotiation to draw down some of the monies, £36,000, in the gofundme account. ‘To support the rescue teams, pay for her and those with her day to day expenses and fly other family members out to Tenerife’

I have just seen on Sky News on my phone that the search is being called off because they have found no trace of him anywhere.

Just read that on the news Sparklefizz, it's a very strange case..

Unfortunately, for his family, as the details of his very unsavoury criminal background surfaced in the media then the initial upsurge of public sympathy rapidly evaporated. The report of he and his cronies behaviour at Preston Crown Court wouldn't endear him to the Devil.

On my phone too, that the search is being called off. How very strange. And sudden. Is there something they are not telling us?

Well, the two men must be know something of events that night.

No doubt when investigations are complete, we'll find out why the search has been called off.

I’d like to know what the two men know about this. Have they been identified and questioned?

Callistemon213

Well, the two men must be know something of events that night.

No doubt when investigations are complete, we'll find out why the search has been called off.

The police on Tenerife have said that the two men are not relevant to the investigation according to the BBC News item.

Yes maddy, they were questioned before they left Tenerife.

This search has demanded huge resources and isn’t making progress. How long and at what cost can it be expected to continue

Yes I heard that too. Apparently they were interviewed by the Spanish police and then allowed to return to the UK as having no relevance to the case. Difficult to believe.

Do you believe the police on Tenerife got it wrong? The yiung man’s friend on Tenerife says he phoned her after leaving the accommodation rented by these two British tourists

Several interesting things in the wording of statements from police.

They say the phone can't be tracked when "switched off", is this just a translation issue or are they suggesting the phone was manually switched off as opposed to running out of battery?

Also, "if Jay disappeared in the way we were told", seems to suggests the police have doubts about Lucy's account?

It’s interesting that GoFundMe are taking their time releasing money. Over £43k has been donated. There is something amiss here imho.

I agree GSM there is something odd about this whole thing.

Looking at the terrain it would be very easy to overlook a body.
There aren’t all that many doing the searching and I think even that may be scaled down very soon.
A similar case, a woman who was an experienced hiker and went missing I think in France, was only found by accident years later.It was a sad case and her boyfriend would have had suspicions cast on him if he hadn’t been in another country at the time.