Spain Jay Slater, 19, missing on holiday in Tenerife, 17 June 2024

[Coconutty]

His aunt is in Tenerife searching and has just posted an update to the Facebook group saying that the search hasn’t been moved and that is false information that’s being reported.

I was hoping they had a good reason for the new location.

 

[sundaaaay]

BUT would it not take longer than 50 mins to walk to that location.

My assumption is he set off from somewhere near Las Portelas (Google Maps Link)

I think the location he set off from is closer to Masca, because he called his friend an hour after setting off and with his battery at 1% this is his last known location. This area technically still is within Buenavista Del Norte, as seen on his Snapchat.

 

[JusticeDT]

MSN

 

[Skigh]

His aunt is in Tenerife searching and has just posted an update to the Facebook group saying that the search hasn’t been moved and that is false information that’s being reported.

I was hoping they had a good reason for the new location.

It is confusing as I thought the statement about a change of location came from official Spanish sources ,rather than a social media rumour.

 

[JusticeDT]

Mother of British teen missing in Tenerife says searching for son ‘horrendous’

Jay Slater’s mother, Debbie Duncan, flew to Tenerife on Tuesday to search for him.

www.shropshirestar.com

 

[Coconutty]

Me too. It was quoted from the guardia civil which is the local police but she’s saying it’s wrong. It’s very confusing.

 

[MollyHarps]

It is confusing as I thought the statement about a change of location came from official Spanish sources ,rather than a social media rumour.

I’m not following this either.

The statement came from the Spanish civil guard rather than just a social media rumour

 

[JusticeDT]

I think the news reports may be correct

 

[Salah11]

It’s a interesting development because he couldn’t of walked that far so unless he got a lift and is hiding it seems strange.

Moo

 

[JusticeDT]

Facebook group admin now saying search being relocated back to Masca

 

[onthecounter]

It might be a case of, like with Michael Mosley, he’s partly obscured by wall, rocks, in a gulley etc. but under their noses the whole time, in the area where there has been extensive searches already and within a couple of miles of his last known location.

 

[Chellbu]

I have a feeling all the publicity may die down very quickly and very suddenly.

'Disrespectful', 'unrepentant' teens avoid custodial sentences for Rishton attack

A group of “unrepentant” teens have been sentenced for “behaving like a bunch of gorillas” when they attacked a teenager with golf clubs,…

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk

 

[Salah11]

I have a feeling all the publicity may die down very quickly and very suddenly.

'Disrespectful', 'unrepentant' teens avoid custodial sentences for Rishton attack

A group of “unrepentant” teens have been sentenced for “behaving like a bunch of gorillas” when they attacked a teenager with golf clubs,…

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk

He still is lost and maybe dead so that shouldn’t change things.

IMO

 

[Skigh]

He still is lost and maybe dead so that shouldn’t change things.

IMO

But it might indicate that he was involved in something nefarious and him being missing is connected.

 

[Loyaloil]

I have a feeling all the publicity may die down very quickly and very suddenly.

'Disrespectful', 'unrepentant' teens avoid custodial sentences for Rishton attack

A group of “unrepentant” teens have been sentenced for “behaving like a bunch of gorillas” when they attacked a teenager with golf clubs,…

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk

Oh how interesting. Someone did say something about his ‘past’ in a post on FB but admin quickly removed it.

 

[Salah11]

But it might indicate that he was involved in something nefarious and him being missing is connected.

What would he be up to in a strange land he has never visited before?

 

[Chellbu]

Especially when paired with his Aunt saying his Mother has received voice notes on her phone, from “men with a northern accent” saying they had him and he owed them money.

 

[Ocalasunrise]

Yes you are right.

I initially had the location before as this but it means the last pinged location sent to his friend he has actually walked north not south.

Timings match but he was walking in the opposite direction to where he was meant to be going..

And that's one of the (many) odd things

Also, the Snapchat photo was taken at 7.30am apparently inside the apartment where he'd stayed. By 8.15am he was calling his friend saying not only was he thirsty and lost but that "I can't go back, i don't know where I am" (source - Manchester Evening News, Interview with his friend) and was sounding distressed. That's a really tight-time frame between him leaving where he'd stayed and being in a position where he'd got some place that he didn't know how to get back to where he'd started.

 

[doublestop]

Forgive me if this has been suggested before, but are we sure that Jay actually left the apartment, or could someone else have used his phone to message Lucy? IF you were down to 1% battery, wouldn't you text rather than call?

 

[Chellbu]

There’s now a post on the Facebook Group with a screenshot from what appears to be from Jay’s Snapchat indicating someone knows where he is.