JAY SLATER’S distraught father was stumped by one key detail during the desperate search for his missing son.
Warren Slater, 58, said it “makes no sense” as he tried to figure out how or why Jay ended up hiking in the mountains.
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Jay, 19, was last seen three weeks ago, on the morning of June 17.
He left an Airbnb in the northwest of the island and was seen heading towards a rural park area near a huge rocky ravine.
Police, firefighters, volunteers and mountain rescue teams scoured the area known to locals as “the badlands” in an attempt to find him.
But Warren said he “can’t understand” why his son went off a road and into a dangerous valley.
Now leading the search himself, the concerned father said he has searched 80% of the ravine in question.
Warren told The Mirror: “It doesn’t make sense, or he’s hidden, but why would he hide? Or is he just…?”
“All I’m thinking is common sense, you could try to get through there,” he added.
“Where we were today you can see that there is a path for walkers with suitable rocks. We go straight down and you end up in the village.
“I would go into the first building you see.”
After police, firefighters, volunteers and mountain rescue spent two weeks searching for Jay, they stopped the active search on June 30.
Now his distraught family members, who flew to Tenerife the week he disappeared, are retracing his last known steps themselves.
And after a week of scouring the Masca mountain region, Warren said the family is expanding their search area.
Explaining the decision, he told The Sun: “I’ve been through 80% of the valley so we’ve moved on.
“We’ve already been through the valley where his phone rang. We’ve been on two wild goose chases of abandoned buildings.”
Warren questioned why someone would choose dense vegetation over a safer, more obvious route.
He told The Sun of the ongoing search: “Now we’ve gone up the road to a lookout point, there’s cliffs there and there’s a valley and a village there.
“Where we were today you can see there is a walker’s path with suitable rocks. We go straight down and you end up in the village.”
Yesterday Jay’s family focused their efforts on the town of Santiago del Teide that made headlines several weeks ago, the Independent reports.
Jay’s mother, Debbie Duncan, told the press on Saturday, June 22, that a witness went to the police and claimed to have seen Jay in the village on the day he disappeared.
They apparently said he was with two men sitting on a bench outside a church, 3.5 miles from his last known location.
The mysterious sighting raised questions when the witness placed Jay there at 6pm, around nine hours after he was last heard from on Monday morning.
On Wednesday, June 26, The Sun revealed exclusive CCTV footage showing police searching the city.
An officer with a torch and another man were seen searching the area for clues, at one point examining a red container.
The pair then walked towards the town hall, before returning to the church and waiting near the road.
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THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF JAY SLATER
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
Monday 8th July marks three weeks since Jay Slater, a 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, went missing in Tenerife.
The apprentice bricklayer, who flew to the popular holiday island for a rave festival with friends Lucy Law and Brad Page, made headlines across the country.
On Sunday, June 16, the three left for one of the events at the Papagayo nightclub.
In the early hours of Monday the 17th – Lucy and Brad were ready to go back to the hotel, but Jay wanted to continue the party.
It was then that he left the south of the island and headed to an Airbnb in the northwest with two Brits.
The Sun revealed the identity of one of them – convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim, who spent nine years behind bars in the UK.
For days, it was thought that the second mystery man was called ‘Johnny Vegas’.
On Sunday, former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who is investigating in Tenerife, said Qassim told him he is in fact the man behind the nickname ‘Johnny Vegas’.
We still don’t know the identity of the second man – who remains a key part of the puzzle of Jay’s mysterious disappearance.
Qassim claims he took Jay and his friend back to the dorm and said everyone went to sleep.
In the morning, he offered to take the teenager back to the Los Cristianos resort after a nap, but Jay, hungry and tired, said he wanted to leave immediately.
Lucy, the last person to speak to Jay, claims that she received a panicked call from him shortly after he left the holiday, saying that he was lost and thirsty, that his phone was about to die, and that he had been cut off by a cactus. .
Jay had been seen by the Airbnb owner that morning wandering near the Teno Rural park – a nearby mountainous region.
He is believed to have attempted the 11-hour walk back to his hotel, despite the supposed offer of a lift and more buses scheduled for the day.
It was there that his phone last rang – and he hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
Mark Williams-Thomas said he left Airbnb quickly and was “scared.”
Strangely, Qassim says he was woken up that morning by a phone call from Jay’s unidentified friend, saying he was “in a ditch” somewhere and had been “cut by a cactus.”
Jay’s friend Lucy claimed to have “located” the two men at the Airbnb after he disappeared – interrogating them on the morning of Jay’s disappearance.
Some reports suggest that Lucy knew both men, although it is unclear how.
She dubbed his disappearance “strange and suspicious.”
The two men were questioned by Spanish police officers on June 17, but were quickly deemed “irrelevant” to the investigation and allowed to fly back to the UK.
Police spent nearly two weeks searching for Jay in the mountains of Tenerife, searching a 2,000-foot ravine, before calling it off on Sunday, June 30.
Jay’s family has repeatedly criticized the Spanish investigation into his bizarre disappearance.
His uncle, Glen Duncan, is convinced of “third party involvement”.
And the teenager’s devastated father Warren Slater says ‘everything stinks’
He told The Sun: “My starting position, I said this from day one, ask the two men who took him – and then go from there.”
A number of unanswered questions remain, about why Jay would have traveled so far with two older men he did not know, why these men would have taken him in, and why he braved the mountains of Tenerife without a phone battery, water or protection. thermal. for a full day hike.
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