JAY SLATER’S desperate parents say they are still no closer to finding their son, despite a difficult meeting with police today.
Debbie Duncan and Warren Slater have spent the last two weeks in Tenerife searching for their 19-year-old son, while pleading with the public to keep the case alive.
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Apprentice bricklayer Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, has been missing for more than two weeks after disappearing on June 17.
His family was “caught by surprise” when authorities on the island abruptly called off the search for the teenager on Sunday.
Earlier today, Debbie and Warren spent two and a half hours talking to law enforcement officials to get updates on the case.
Afterwards, a distraught Debbie told The Sun: “It’s a mystery and he’s still missing, we just need to let these guys (the police) get on with it.”
She continued to urge the public not to forget her son, saying: “Let’s carry on, keep him alive.
“Let them (the police) get on with it, we have to trust these people.”
Jay’s parents were informed by detectives at the local Civil Guard headquarters in Playa de Las Americas.
The pair arrived at the police station on the popular tourist island at around 2pm.
Speaking from Tenerife, Warren added that they would return to the station “when asked”.
Previously, family friend Rachel Hargreaves, mother of Jay’s best friend Brad, also visited the station with her partner.
Jay’s devastated family still have no answers about what happened to their son – who has not been seen or heard from since June 17.
Jay’s family, including mum Debbie, who works as a school financier, and dad Warren, 58, have vowed to remain at home. Spain until Jay is found.
Debbie told Good Morning Britain she is trying to “stay positive” and doesn’t want the case to “lose momentum”.
She added that it was important to keep the world watching as she again attacked conspiracy theorists who hampered the investigation.
Attempts to find Jay have often been overshadowed by vile Internet trolls and callous conspiracy theorists.
The UK family source said on Sunday: “Jay’s family can’t help but think the trolls won and they got what they wanted.
“So many people have been spreading horrible messages, which has only added to the family’s torment.”
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Former police officer Charlie Hedges spoke to The Sun about the risks of online sleuths and amateur sleuths trying to solve the case.
He urged the public not to take it upon themselves to help in the search, as he noted that despite their best intentions, they could end up causing more problems.
But with the official police search called off and no other obvious lines of inquiry into what happened to the Apprentice bricklayer, the mystery surrounding his disappearance remains.
It turns out that cops spent two hours searching the Airbnb apartment where Jay stayed with two mystery men hours before he disappeared.
Two plainclothes officers, wearing blue forensic shoes, were sent to examine the £40-a-night two-bedroom house, called Casa Abuela Tina, for clues.
Investigators said the two mystery Brits Jay partied with at the Airbnb were “not relevant” to the investigation.
The officers declined to comment as they left.
When asked about police activity at Airbnb, Debbie said: “We don’t know anything about the investigation, we’re leaving that to the police.”
On Monday, a Spanish judge revealed that “there is no current evidence of criminality” in the case.
Many believed that Jay may have been kidnapped or murdered by a criminal gang in the mountains.
But investigating judge Maria Goya, who is being kept informed by the police about events, has been informed by the Civil Guard that there is nothing to indicate that Jay was the victim of a crime.
Police ended their official search for missing British teenager Jay Slater on Sunday.
The mammoth hunt – involving sniffer dogs, drones, a helicopter, dozens of volunteers and mountain rescue experts – has ended.
Police in Tenerife said officers would continue to investigate the case if any reports or important information emerged.
The decision to call off the search left Jay’s parents and family “heartbroken and devastated”, a family source told The Sun.
JAY’S CLUES
The young Brit disappeared after a night out at the NRG festival at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas, on June 17.
He was last seen traveling with the two mysterious men in the north of the island, in the Teno Rural park.
The next morning he made one last frantic phone call to his friend Lucy to say he was stuck in the “middle of nowhere”.
Panicking, Jay, who faced an 11-hour walk back to his hotel, told her he needed water and only had one percent battery left on his phone.
His other friend, Brad Hargreaves, revealed a second call in which Jay told him he had strayed from the main path – leading to speculation he may have slipped on rocks.
Brad said he heard the missing teen slipping on rocks during a final video call.
Rescuers focused their efforts around the 2,000-foot Masca ravine, near Jay’s last known location – the desolate Teno Nature Reserve.
Last Thursday, they shifted their focus to caves near Los Carrizales – about an hour and a half walk from the Airbnb where Jay went with the two men.
Jay flew to Tenerife with friends Lucy and Brad for the New Rave Generation (NRG) festival, which ended on Sunday.
His last Snapchat photo was an out-of-focus image of a hand holding cigarettes in Buenavista del Norte, which is inside the Teno Rural park, at around 7:30 am.
The photo was taken at the place he went with the two men he met at the club – with spooky photos showing the inside of the Airbnb.
It is alleged that he was seen “walking alone” by locals before his disappearance.
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Rolex disappears after ‘fight’
Police launched a new investigation on Saturday morning into the theft of a Rolex watch just hours before Jay disappeared.
It’s unclear exactly how Jay’s disappearance may be related, but one of Jay’s friends told detectives that the alleged theft may have led Jay to wander alone to try to find the watch.
The Rolex went missing when a fight broke out at the club where Jay was partying with investigators questioning taxi drivers and bar staff present on the tarmac.
Police eliminate duo
Two mystery Brits who partied with Jay Slater on the night of his disappearance have been labeled “not relevant” by investigators.
Investigator Mark Williams-Thomas said the men stayed with Jay at an Airbnb villa in Tenerife before he disappeared.
They are both said to be in their 30s and 40s and from Luton, Bedfordshire, with one known by the nickname “Johnny Vegas”.
The men were asked to speak briefly to police before being allowed to fly home to the UK.
Just six volunteers for ‘massive’ search
Yesterday, Tenerife police launched what they called a “massive” new search with the help of specialist volunteers to find the 19-year-old Briton.
However, only six volunteers showed up, said Tiktoker Paul Arnott, 29, who flew in to help with the search.
Jay’s father Warren and older brother Zak were spotted on the search site.
The area being searched is a 2,000-foot ravine that has a steep trail running through it to the sea.
Last mysterious calls
Jay’s last phone call to his friend Lucy Law was shrouded in mystery and raised several questions.
The 18-year-old woman told reporters that Jay called her in a panic at around 8:30 a.m. on Monday, June 17.
She remembered him saying he couldn’t catch the bus and that he was going to start walking back to his apartment.
Jay told her that his phone was almost out of power, that he had cut his leg on a prickly cactus, and that he was in dire need of a drink.
Phone pinging
Search teams have restricted their efforts to a small group of buildings near where Jay’s phone last pinged, but have found nothing over the past week.
Jay took a 45-minute car ride with two men to an Airbnb near Masco, in Rural de Teno, a national park in the north of the island.
He posted a photo on Snapchat at the £40-a-night excavations at around 7.30am, appearing to show him holding a cigarette and walking down some stone steps.
After deciding to leave the house, Jay called Lucy before her cell phone went dead at 8:50 a.m. near a hiking trail in the park.
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