Spain Kevin Ainley, 24, UK Citizen, missing from Tenerife, 14 June 2004.

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The Brit who 'vanished from face of Earth' on Tenerife 20 years before Jay Slater​

Kevin Ainley, then 24, was working and living on the Spanish island when he went missing on June 14 2004, but there was limited media coverage at the time.​

Kevin Ainley, then 24, was working and living on the Spanish island when he went missing on June 14 2004, but there was limited media coverage at the time.
From Fleetwood, Lancashire, he moved to the tourist area of Playa de las Americas three months earlier.
Mr Ainley was handing out flyers for a bar called the Sportsman in an area known as "the patch" and on the day he vanished he had also visited bars and clubs with a friend.

With a different friend, at about midday, he went for a meal at a Chinese buffet restaurant called Merlins.
The last sigthting that day was of him walking in the direction of the Sportsman.
His passport and belongings were later found in his apartment.
There was a full Spanish missing person investigation and a later review by Lancashire Police, but he has never been traced.

The Brit who went missing on Tenerife 20 years before Jay Slater

Kevin Ainley, then 24, was working and living on the Spanish island when he went missing on June 14 2004, but there was limited media coverage at the time.

www.express.co.uk

 

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Kevin Ainley, was 24 years old, when he went missing 20 years ago this month. He was from Fleetwood, Lancashire, and moved to the tourist area of Playa de las Americas three months before disappearing. In a 2016 appeal, 12 years after he went missing his sister Gemma Brooke said the family was still "desperate for answers".

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Promoter Kevin Ainley, 24, was from Fleetwood, Lancashire, and moved to the tourist area of Playa de las Americas three months before disappearing on June 14, 2004.

He was last sighted walking in the direction of a bar called the Sportsman handing out flyers.

His passport and belongings were found in his apartment. Spanish police launched an investigation which Lancashire Police later reviewed, but Kevin was never found. In a 2016 appeal, his sister Gemma Brooke said the family was "desperate for answers". She said: "It is no exaggeration to say we have been put through 12 years of hell. Somebody must know something."

She added: "I just hope that if someone does know something they can find it in their hearts to come forward and help put us out of our misery." Then on June 13 this year, just a few days before Jay vanished, she posted on a Facebook page dedicated to his case: "Never gets easier... the pit of empty space that lives in our family. I miss you terribly r kid."

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'Miss you terribly r kid'

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

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Family of Kevin Ainley speak out: He vanished in Tenerife in 2004

"My brother disappeared in Tenerife just like Jay Slater; he was never seen again; the island has a dark side"

www.canarianweekly.com