Found Deceased Jay Slater, 19, missing on holiday in Tenerife, 17 June 2024 #3

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It looks like it would be impossible to slide off the road. It has low blocks of concrete all the way along the edge which look to be designed to prevent any kind of sliding off. There are gaps between each block which look to be around one foot wide, so it's possible to choose to leave the road and go downwards through the rocks and cacti. Given that Jay got injured by a cactus, it sounds like he consciously went through one of those gaps or stepped over the concrete blocks. I can't see how else he'd get attacked by a cactus. They don't extend over to the road.
In one of the threads someone posted a picture that showed several cactuses on the side of the road in the area he was walking, while he was walking along the road it is possible a car/lorry/bus came towards him in a narrow area and he moved out of the way cutting his leg on cactus in the process
 
How many people were at the rave? I'm guessing 100s or 1000s. Just because there was an altercation outside the venue with a stolen watch, doesn't mean Jay was involved. It could have been anyone involved. I read earlier on in a media post about Tenerife being rife with pick pocketers. It could have been one of them.

Do drones have thermal imagery? I'm guessing they would use that at night to search for him.

My gut feeling is he will be found in the wilderness one day, could be a long time from now, by someone who isn't looking but just out hiking.
 

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Several posters have mentioned that if there was a body in the search area, then there should be bird & insect activity. Perhaps that points to him having ended up in the sea?

How on earth would he have ended up in the sea?
 
why is it that so many people try to look beyond the most sensible,likely and logical explanation in these cases?
not every case can be like something out of a television drama!.....the lad wandered off into a place he knew nothing at all about and was ill equipped to cope with - why on earth there always needs to be such a circus of drama and speculation in these cases i have absolutely no clue
 
Given that the two older men are presumably the last people to have seen Jay Slater alive, does anyone else find it a tad strange that when they returned to the UK, police didn't want to speak with them? According to statements from British police, they have no intention of even interviewing them. Yes, I appreciate that Jay probably got injured and this is misadventure etc, but even so, given that nobody is clear as to why he went with these two men, surely they are still relevant to some extent?
I agree.
 
why is it that so many people try to look beyond the most sensible,likely and logical explanation in these cases?
not every case can be like something out of a television drama!.....the lad wandered off into a place he knew nothing at all about and was ill equipped to cope with - why on earth there always needs to be such a circus of drama and speculation in these cases i have absolutely no clue

Well, it started when Jay’s mum said she’d received a text saying she’d never see her boy again because he owed someone money. Then it became clear drugs were rife at the rave and Jay looked like he may have partaken. Then there were lots of rumours about his friends and dealing. Then we looked at lifestyles and that seemed a plausibility, not many students can afford monthly holidays with no proper job. Then there were two mysterious men and talk of a missing watch / money / drugs. Then both parents said he’d never have attempted to climb mountains and posited he’d been abducted. <modsnip> I guess that all set the rumour mill going at full pelt…

…we didn’t get any of this about Michael Mosley or any of the other missing hikers. But Jay wasn’t a hiker and had no logical reason to be in those hills, so I think looking at alternatives was and is wholly understandable.

Of course, all the dodgy shenanigans may well be true, but that doesn’t mean it’s related to his disappearance. Easy to see why social media has gone wild with this one, though.
 
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Unless it provides solid information to put his last location somewhere other than those mountains, I fail to see its relevance. If it had been a smartwatch that could have pinged its location and there was real reason think he might have been carrying it, I don't see how it helps to find him.

When someone's been lost up a mountain for three days without water in inhospitable conditions, it does not matter why they went up the mountain.
It would matter though if foul play had occured which is still a possibility . There is no firm evidence that he walked off into the mountains. MOO
 
They aren't the last people though, the neighbour lady and Brad via the phone saw him after he left the airbnb so unless he returned unseen they are unlikely to the cause of whatever happened afterwards other than being the means by which he was in the mountains if the first place.

JMO
That is only true if we believe they are being truthful . MOO
 
why is it that so many people try to look beyond the most sensible,likely and logical explanation in these cases?
not every case can be like something out of a television drama!.....the lad wandered off into a place he knew nothing at all about and was ill equipped to cope with - why on earth there always needs to be such a circus of drama and speculation in these cases i have absolutely no clue
With this case it feels like the unfortunate combo of potential theories leaking from his friends / family + no real official press conference taking control of the situation let it run wild.
 
why is it that so many people try to look beyond the most sensible,likely and logical explanation in these cases?
not every case can be like something out of a television drama!.....the lad wandered off into a place he knew nothing at all about and was ill equipped to cope with - why on earth there always needs to be such a circus of drama and speculation in these cases i have absolutely no clue
But occasionally some cases do end up like something out of a crime thriller... Take Wayne Couzens for example now who would have expected that scenario. I'm sure maybe he stumbled off a cliff somewhere but people can look into angles in this because who knows how it will end or if something shows up of relevence, they stopped the search but continued the crime investigation that tells me they too think this is far from straight forward
 
I believe the possibility was mentioned a while back. Something to do with sliding down a canyon, or maybe hoping to flag down a passing boat.
He was literally miles away from the sea. A prepared and experienced climber would have found the descent to sea level across that terrain difficult, ever mind a hungover 19 year old Lancs lad who previously found a walk to the local hairdressers a challenge.
 

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But occasionally some cases do end up like something out of a crime thriller... Take Wayne Couzens for example now who would have expected that scenario. I'm sure maybe he stumbled off a cliff somewhere but people can look into angles in this because who knows how it will end or if something shows up of relevence, they stopped the search but continued the crime investigation that tells me they too think this is far from straight forward
Wayne Couzens was an individual who took advantage of his position of trust in order to commit a crime. It's hardly unheard of, and absolutely not comparable to some of the frankly ridiculous theories surrounding this case.
 
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