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British TikToker Paul Arnott, who has joined the search for missing Jay Slater, has revealed he is preparing to meet up with the teenager's family later today.
Arnott, who has a TikTok page called “Down the Rapids” with some 153,000 followers, paid £400 for a flight from Fort William to Tenerife on Saturday to join the search. He revealed he had been talking to the mother of Bradley Hargreaves, a friend of Jay’s who was also on the break with him and Lucy Mae Law.
The 29-year-old said: "I'm meeting the family today. They said they wanted to meet me. They said they're really proud of what I'm doing. I've been speaking with Brad's mum, Rachel. They wanted to bring me food but I said no. "
TikToker Paul Arnott is to meet Jay's family (downtherapids/Instagram)The amateur mountaineer and adventurer also recently took part in the search for father and son Tom and Richie Parry, who were eventually found dead after going missing in the Scottish Highlands last month.
Before disappearing, Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was enjoying his first holiday abroad with friends in Tenerife and attended the three-day NRG Festival, which came to a close on Sunday, June 16. While his pals returned to their accommodation just outside Playa de las America, Jay extended his night out with two British men he'd met on the trip.
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He was last registered walking away from their Airbnb holiday rental, located just outside the village of Masca on the side of a mountain in the Rural de Teno National Park, on Monday morning. He had called his friend Lucy Law to warn her that he had no idea where he was and that he was trying to make his way back to the hotel, but had just one per cent phone battery left.
At a press conference held yesterday, Detective Mark Williams-Thomas pleaded for the two men that Jay went back to an Airbnb with the night before he vanished to 'come forward with crucial information".
He earlier said: "I urge those two people to come forward. I need to speak to those people, they have crucial information. There will be you, as well as many other people who are asking very pertinent questions in relation to why they were here, what they were doing and why they took Jay back to that holiday rental.
"What we don't know is why, if they were partying here, they went to a holiday rental around an hour away in a really remote location. I don't know the answer to that, but my focus is to find those people. I am giving them the opportunity to come forward, they are crucial witnesses and ask questions that could get answers."