JAY Slater’s desperate father has appealed for help saying he “needs an army” as the massive hunt for his missing son continues.
Warren Slater promised he would not stop looking for the 19-year-old after the official search effort was halted.
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Warren and Jay’s brother Zak have been walking through the mountains of Tenerife every day trying to find any sign of Jay – who went missing on June 17.
The apprentice bricklayer was last seen climbing a hill in a remote village in the northwest of the island.
He had returned to an Airbnb in the desolate park with two men after a night of partying.
In the morning, he attempted to walk the 11 hours back to his accommodation after missing the bus.
Jay made one last frantic call to friend Lucy Law to say he was lost.
Returning to the Juan Lopez Barranco Valley, near the village of Masca, where Jay’s phone last rang, Warren said: “We’re still looking. What else can we do?
“I’ve said it before, I need an army to help me. People don’t understand the vastness of it.”
He added: “I would love to be able to fly a drone and sit here all day searching the whole area. Why would you go there? Why go off the road?
The distraught father believes that someone must have seen his son as he walked up the road from the village of Masca.
“When we arrived on Monday, we must have passed 200 cars going up those hills,” he said.
Jay has not been seen or heard from since June 17, after he left a remote Airbnb in the Masca region alone.
After a party on the island ended, the bricklayer’s apprentice went to stay with two Brits he met during the crowded NRG festival.
One of the men – convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim – says Jay left the house alive.
The missing teenager tried to get back to his holiday apartment, which was an 11-hour walk away – before making a desperate phone call to his friend Lucy Law, saying he was lost.
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A huge search operation was launched using drones, sniffer dogs, a helicopter and search teams to scour the treacherous landscape for any sign of Jay.
But on June 30 the official hut was cancelled, leaving the bereft family alone.
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.
Warren Slater, 58, today promised he would not stop searching the vast Masca ravine in north-west Tenerife in search of his son.
He criticized conspiracy theorists and told them to do their research on the ground before jumping to conclusions.
Warren was seen scouring the unforgiving landscape with son Zak, 21, today, both holding bottles of water.
Warren’s legs were visibly scratched as he walked in shorts along a bumpy path.
Jay’s mother Debbie is also searching for him and has been in Tenerife for more than 20 days.
She has criticized cruel online trolls for their mockery, conspiracy theories and jokes.
Jay’s friend was also the victim of online abuse after being photographed at a pool party with the missing teenager just days before he disappeared.
Brandon Hodgson is receiving death threats after a “hate campaign” was launched on social media, his mother revealed today.
She compared his treatment to the false rumors that surrounded Nicola Bulley’s family after she disappeared while walking her spaniel last year.
The photograph also shows Lucy Mae Law, the last friend to hear from Jay.
This has led to speculation about why – unlike Lucy and Brad, also 19 – Brandon has not spoken publicly about how Jay has become separated from his friends, who returned to the UK at the weekend.
Speaking at the family home in Brierfield, Lancashire, Brandon’s mother Natalie insisted the teenager was helping Spanish police.
But she said he had no plans to break his silence and respond to speculation from amateur sleuths on social media after returning home.
There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of anyone cited in this article.
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