JAY SLATER’S GoFundMe page has reached an incredible £70,000 as his grieving mother begs for more money to get her son back to the UK.
It comes just two days after fundraising reached £60,000 in an outpouring of support after Jay’s body was found on Monday.
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The family’s fundraiser for the repatriation of his body has already received more than 5,600 donations.
The page has already raised £70,000 – an additional £40,000 to the initial £30,000 benchmark.
Jay’s family has not yet commented on the new album.
But on Thursday, mother Debbie Duncan, 55, posted on the GoFundMe page to thank well-wishers.
She said she was “overwhelmed” with grief and grateful for the support the family had received from the public.
Debbie also asked people to keep donating so she can give her son “the send-off he deserves.”
Online trolls have attacked grieving relatives, in disbelief that they needed all that money and more.
But family spokesperson LBT Global responded, saying Jay’s family was seeing “large amounts of hateful content online.”
Chief Matt Searle said: “This hatred comes from people who, I presume, have never had to repatriate a deceased loved one.
“These costs can easily reach £20,000.
“These people probably didn’t have to organize their own children’s funeral, nor did they feel the need to make it as big and best as possible, as it’s the last thing they will do for their children.”
On Wednesday, heartbroken mother Debbie, father Warren and brother Zak left touching floral tributes and handwritten notes in the mountainous region of Masca where the teenager fell to his death.
The following day, the family was seen in public for the first time during an emotional visit to a church in Santiago del Teide, close to where the teenager tragically died.
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They also mobilized a private search team to discover the exact location where the body was found.
Jay’s body was tragically found on Monday at the bottom of a treacherous ravine in Masca – four weeks after he went missing while on holiday with his friends to the NRG music festival.
The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer traveled to a remote Airbnb in Masca with two men in the early hours of June 17.
He spent the entire night partying in Playa de las Americas, about an hour’s drive away.
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In the morning he attempted the 11-hour walk back to his accommodation, miles away.
Jay made one last tragic phone call to his friend Lucy Law to say he was lost, needed water and only had one percent battery left on his phone.
That was the last time Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancs, was heard from and a massive search mission was launched.
Jay’s father, Warren, and brother Zak spent weeks searching for a discovery in the unforgiving terrain after the teenager went missing on June 17.
They retraced their steps in the scorching heat for days on their own after Spanish police suspended the search.
But his body was finally discovered by a helicopter crew on Monday, at the bottom of a ravine near where his cell phone last rang.
Timeline of Jay Slater’s Disappearance
The grim discovery of a body came after weeks of agony for Jay’s friends and family. Here is how events unfolded:
June 16: Jay and his friends party on the last day of the NRG music festival at Papagayo nightclub in Playa de la Americas, Tenerife.
June 17th:
- 3am to 6am: Jay leaves with Ayub Qassim and another man to a £40-a-night Airbnb 23 miles away in the village of Masca.
- 7:30am: Jay shares a photo on Snapchat standing in the doorway of the Airbnb.
- 8:50am: He calls his friend Lucy Mae Law and says he’s “lost in the middle of nowhere,” with no water, a cut on his leg and one percent on the phone.
June 18: Friends search the area but no sign of Jay. Local police and mountain rescue teams begin the official search. Jay’s mother, Debbie Duncan, flies to Tenerife.
June 19th to 20th: The Spanish police use drones, dogs and a helicopter, but find no traces. The search continues to Los Cristianos amid a possible sighting, but it is ruled out and they return to Rural de Teno, near Masca.
June 21th: Lancashire Police offers support, but it is refused.
June 22: Mom Debbie makes a plea to Jay saying, “We just need you at home.”
June 24th: Jay is alleged to have been sighted in Santiago del Teide – close to where he disappeared – and his family believe a grainy CCTV image could be him.
June 25th: Debbie asks Jay to return home while more friends travel and TV investigator Mark Williams-Thomas joins the search.
June 29: The police remove Qassim and another man from the Airbnb from the investigation.
June 30: Spanish police officially suspend the hunt, but say the investigation “remains open”. His family continues to search.
July 15: A body is found by a helicopter search team near where his phone last rang. Their belongings are discovered alongside human remains. Spanish police say this points to an “accidental fall”.
July 17th: Tenerife authorities confirm that the body found in the mountainous area of the island is that of Jay.
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