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. The 19-year-old was due to return to the UK on a flight booked for tomorrow morning.
Officers 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 wasn’t expecting him to reappear and turn up for his plane home. Debbie has been staying at another apartment in the same complex but is due to move to a new accommodation tomorrow.
She said: “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."
Jay was due to fly back to the UK tomorrow morning (MEN Media)
Jay's mum Debbie fears the teen may have been kidnapped (Facebook)Speaking this evening as the third day of 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.
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Heartbroken Debbie said Jay is "not a stupid lad", adding she has a "bad feeling" and has been warned there's "a lot of bad people in Tenerife." She continued: “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."
She added: "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."
A map shows the location of the search for Jay Slater (Facebook)The British Consulate is keeping Debbie updated with actions taken by Tenerife Police, who are aware of her suspicions that the teen was "taken up north by people against his will." Debbie explained: "My understanding is the police have been into the house he went to after he left the festival which is in the Teno Rural Park near Masca. I believe the people he went with are British and have Cockney accents but I’m not aware they’re being treated as suspects at this time. For me it's just a question of sitting and waiting and hoping that tomorrow they’ll be good news.”
Debbie also told how she was sent a vile Snapchat message saying 'kiss goodbye to your boy'. She said: "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.
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