Tenerife Police have searched the apartment of missing British teenager Jay Slater, 19, who vanished on Monday while on holiday with his friends to attend a three-day festival
Police have searched missing teen Jay Slater’s holiday apartment in Tenerife for potential clues to his whereabouts – as concern deepens among his family that he may have been kidnapped.
It comes after Jay’s devastated mum said she feared “something bad” happened to him and he was being held against his will. Jay, an apprentice bricklayer, last spoke to his friends on Monday, June 17. Sniffer dogs and mountain rescue experts have scoured the Island in search for the teen after he was reported missing. Jay was booked on a flight back to the UK tomorrow morning.
Officers have searched the room Jay was sharing with a friend at a three-star apartment complex in Los Cristianos in the south of the island. His concerned mum Debbie Duncan, who has now been joined in Tenerife by Jay’s dad Warren, said she had his passport and she wasn’t expecting him to reappear and turn up for his plane home. She has been staying at another apartment in the same complex Jay had booked into although she is due to move to new accommodation tomorrow.
Speaking this evening as the third day of police searches failed to find any trace of the 19-year-old, whose last phone contact with friend Lucy Mae was from mountains near the tiny village of Masca in north-west Tenerife, Debbie said: “I haven’t slept since all this began and I’ve no plans to go up to the search site right now. I’ve been warned I’d be beside myself when I see how rocky it is and I probably haven’t got the strength right now.
“I just want to be here for if he does turn up but I’ve got a bad feeling. I’m being warned there’s a lot of bad people in Tenerife. I just think he’s being held against his will. He’s not a stupid lad. He wouldn’t have gone walking down bloody mountains. There’s a road there with tourists and buses and properties, He’s not that daft.
“There’s no ransom demand come in yet but I got a Snapchat about 10 minutes after I got off the plane saying ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.’ which I passed on to police with the number it came from because I had my wits about me at the time and got my eldest son Zac to take a screen grab before it disappeared.
“There’s been that many prank calls that I don’t know whether that was one but I’m passing on information to police that I think could be relevant and I thought that could be.”
She added: “Police have been into Jay’s room today. I’ve been in his room as well. But everything of Jay’s was neatly hung up, it’s just a normal room and there’s nothing untoward there. His passport was there along with all his euros which I’ve got now. I’m not sure he had any money on him when he made that last call to his friend Lucy on Monday morning before he vanished.
“But he had his bank card and I’ve checked his bank because I can get into his account online and there’s nothing gone out since he was on Veronica’s Strip in Playa de Las Americas earlier. He and his friend Brad who he flew out here with would have been getting up tomorrow and flying home.
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