THE LAST person to speak to missing British teenager Jay Slater has said his disappearance is “suspicious and strange”.
Jay, 19, from Lancashire, was on the island for a festival and spent the night with people he had just met after a rave before disappearing on his way home on Monday.
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Jay mysteriously disappeared after making a frantic 8am phone call to his friend Lucy Mae – saying he was “in the middle of nowhere”.
A desperate search was quickly launched for the teenager with mountain rescue, firefighters, drones, sniffer dogs and police helicopters.
Concerned friend Lucy now said: “There’s something strange going on. It’s suspicious. In two days you’re telling me someone hasn’t seen you.
“There is a restaurant 10 minutes away that he would have seen or passed by. It’s suspicious and strange.”
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She added: “It’s fair that it only opened for another two hours, but if it had been me I would have sat and waited in the restaurant until it opened and as soon as it opened I would have said, ‘Please can you put my phone on charge’ and then I would have called someone, I would have called a taxi.”
Jay, an apprentice bricklayer, flew to Tenerife at the weekend with friends Lucy and Brad for the 2024 NFG festival.
He left a rave on Sunday night with two other young people he had just met to continue the night at their apartment, Manchester Evening News reports.
Jay’s last known location was Teno Rural Park in the northwest of the island – a popular hiking spot among tourists.
His last Snapchat post, sent on the Sunday night before his disappearance, showed the teenager smiling with friends.
It was filmed at around 8:30 pm in the Arona area, in Santa de Cruz, in the south of the island, where the festival took place.
After calling Lucy at 8am on Monday, a missing persons report was made around 9am and the search began.
Jay’s mother, Debbie Duncan, and older brother, Zak, flew in on Tuesday to join the efforts.
Debbie’s partner Andy Watson said Lancashire live as police urged the family to leave for the island as soon as possible.
He said: “It was about 2.30am.
“The police said ‘the best thing you can do is leave’, we knew it was bad.
“This was his first holiday alone. I just hope he went to another party.”
An injured Debbie was flying from Manchester Airport at 7am that morning.
Andy, 63, added that “every mother who has a child came to help.”
The massive search is expected to continue early today near the village of Masca in the northwest of the island close to its last known location Manchester Evening News reports.
The “Jay Slater Missing” Facebook group, which now has nearly 140,000 members, says officers are stopping drivers in the area to show them Jay’s photo this morning.
Fiona Duncan, possibly Jay’s maternal aunt, announced on the page today that she would travel to help Jay’s uncle and promised to meet him.
She wrote: “Me, Jay’s uncle and sister-in-law went out today at 3pm to look for Jay.
“I just want to thank everyone for the kind words and support. We will find him.”
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