Jay Slater was last seen leaving the white-washed home, named Casa Abuela Tina, at around 8am on June 17. He had been partying at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas, before leaving the event with two British men to go back to the property, which they had rented.
The AirBnB where missing Jay Slater stayed the night before his disappearance is more then 20 miles and 11 hours’ walk from the Los Cristianos apartment where he had been staying with his pals Lucy Law, 18, and Brad Hargreaves, 19. Jay posted a photo of himself holding a cigarette outside the holiday rental’s main door early on Monday morning. The Airbnb owner later claimed she saw him on Monday walking uphill into the mountains alone.
At 8.30am, Jay called Lucy to say he was in the middle of nowhere, trying to get home with no water and 1% on his phone battery. That was the last time anyone heard from him.
Almost two weeks on, police called off the search on the ground for Jay. Jay’s devastated family, including mum Debbie, dad Warren, and older brother Zak remain in Tenerife trying to help police. They say ‘it’s a mystery’, but the police need to ‘keep it going, keep it alive’.
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As the pair left the police station in south Tenerife today, Ms Duncan, 55, told reporters: “It’s a mystery and he’s still missing, we need to just let these guys get on with it. She added: “Let’s keep it going, keep it alive. Let [the police] get on with it, we’ve got to trust in these people.”
Mr Slater said they would return to the police station “when they ask us to”.
Although the mass search has been called off, two police officers have today (July 2) been seen inside the holiday rental apartment where missing Jay Slater stayed the night before his disappearance. The men, who were both wearing plain clothes, exited the property in Masca shortly after 11am wearing forensic style blue slip-ons over their shoes.
They were then seen taking the slip-ons off before speaking to a local, who had let them into the property with a key.
Approached at the property before driving off in an orange-coloured Kia Sportage SUV, one of the men said: “I’m not authorised to talk to you. I’ve been inside. If you want any information speak to the press office in Santa Cruz.”
Police have said the two British men who Jay stayed with, who it is understood were spoken to by Spanish police before flying back to the UK days after Jay’s disappearance, have “no relevance” to the investigation.
Meanwhile, some mountain rescuers were also seen at the Hilda viewpoint today, which has been the epicentre of the search efforts examining the vast ravines either side of it, where it’s thought Jay might have been.
The parallel investigation remains ongoing, with police encouraging any new tips or information that might bring progress. At the moment, investigators have said they do not believe Jay was the victim of a crime, and that they have not found anything pointing to the two people Jay stayed at the Airbnb with the night before he went missing being linked to the disappearance.
Police have said the two British men who were staying with Jay in the Airbnb, and who are understood to have been spoken to by Spanish police before flying back to the UK days after Jay’s disappearance, have “no relevance” to the investigation. For two hours on Tuesday, she and Mr Slater’s father, Warren Slater, 58, spoke with officers at the Guardia Civil police station in Playa de las Américas.
Spanish authorities have said that there is ‘no current evidence of criminality’ in the case of missing Jay Slater, believing at this stage that he was not the victim of a crime. However, authorities have added that this could change pending any new evidence.
For now, it seems that Jay Slater’s family will stay out in Tenerife, helping police to with anything and everything that might find their youngest boy. In a powerful statement, the family and their friends told the Manchester Evening News: “We will be staying out here and doing all we can to find Jay.”
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