I agree and would have thought these bars would have some CCTV that could be checked quite quickly
This."Jay Slater family
fear online ‘noise’
may impede Tenerife search mission.
Attempt to find British teenager now in its second week
as groundless theories
circulate about his disappearance.
As the search for Jay Slater, the British teenager who went missing while on holiday in Tenerife,
enters its second week Spanish rescuers continue to comb the rugged mountain terrain where he was last seen for clues.
Staff and volunteers from the local police, fire brigade and civil defence force
have been using dogs, drones and helicopters to hunt for the 19-year-old.
But more than 2,000 miles away in Britain,
a group of online sleuths are conducting their own operations,
scouring Google maps of the area where he disappeared in the Rural de Teno national park
and posting baseless conspiracy theories,
and, in some cases,
even cruel deliberate hoaxes about his disappearance.
Slater’s family and friends have said the interest the case has generated online is compounding their distress in what is already one of the most difficult situations a parent could imagine.
And they fear the online 'noise'
around the case
could even hamper the investigation.
Even known conspiracy theorist David Icke
has waded in,
saying:
'Lucy doesn’t exist'.
Speculation is also spreading like wildfire on X and on TikTok,
where 'true crime' accounts are sharing their own theories.
'People believe in conspiracy theories as a way to explain the world when they feel uncertain,
they feel threatened,
they feel perilous:,
Daniel Jolley, assistant professor in social psychology at University of Nottingham said,
adding that online speculation is also popular because 'it’s entertaining'.
However,
he said:
'It can potentially derail investigations because people may indeed be flagging these things up to the police'.
'Any unexplained event that is vaguely unsettling and frightening that is reported in the media
is going to give rise to speculation and conspiracy theories,
it’s almost inevitable',
added Stephan Lewandowsky,
professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Bristol.
But for the families at the centre of police investigations,
Lewandowsky said:
'The impact is awful'."
Jay Slater family fear online ‘noise’ may impede Tenerife search mission | Spain | The Guardian
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Well not exactly on his own admission
The only difference between NB is that they knew her last location was the bench by the river. In the case of JS the only last location we have proper evidence for is him being on the road and walking along it for 1-1.5 km. The pin is very close to the road and also well known for not always being accurate in its position, and a quote that is he was “in the middle of nowhere” which is a description of the entire village of Masca and more so the apartment on the outskirts. IMO there is an equal chance he stayed on the road as off the road because I have not seen any evidence to suggest one is more likely than the other. I watched a video of someone driving in traffic down the road from the apartment and they drove passed people walking along it and I could not describe them even a minute after the video, let alone someone from several days before- all I would be able to confirm is I drove down the road and saw people walking (which they do in every video of the roads), so it is no surprise to me that the only person who could say they saw him on the road is the woman who had spoke to him just before as he would have been fresh in her head.
Isla Traaquair gave a very good overall summary of what's happened so far, with TV and TikTok footage shown of the very difficult search area. She mentioned some of the conspiracy theories briefly and that one or two of the TikTok people are familiar with mountain rescue methods and are helping/useful, but others are likely to be a hindrance.
He told Lucy enough to worry her that she came searching for him. Appreciate the studies into eye witnesses etc, but the points were specific: lost and wanting water. I doubt Lucy mis-heard that.
If you walk along the road there are cactuses along it on the pathway within a few metres, so I don’t take that as being proof of off road either.
A realistic admission by the Spanish authorities, then, that this is a recovery operation now.But The Times reports that the dogs have not been given a piece of Mr Slater's clothing for them to pick up a scent.
Cadaver dogs have been trained to pick up the scent of human remains without the need for a specific prompt.
Jay Slater: Spanish police release new footage of search for missing teen
The 19-year-old from Lancashire has been missing since Monday 17 June. The search continues by land and air, and officers have been joined by specialist sniffer dogs.news.sky.com
IMO asking a stranger who doesn’t speak English well about the bus, looking for a shop to buy more cigarettes and refusing the lift could also show he is actually independent and was confident and in the right frame of mind to get himself home- a lot in a strange country would just ask for a taxi number. I think his depleting cigarettes is also a logical reason for a smoker to want to get back to better civilisation. We don’t know his logic for the bus- was it to get all the way back, or just to a nearby town first.
