Jay feared cactus prick 'may poison him', officers claim
Jay Slater was concerned that a cactus that cut his leg would poison him, right before he disappeared without a trace, police said.
The Civil Guard revealed the detail during Saturday's press conference amidst a big drive to host the largest day of searching yet since he disappeared 12 days ago.
Officers said they knew for certain Jay had walked down a ravine due to a detail from his phonecall with friend Lucy Law on the Monday morning. "Another thing that leads us to that conclusion is that when he was on the phone to Lucy, he got caught by a cactus and he was worried that they might be poisonous - she said, don't worry, it won't be poisonous - but for that, he had to have left the main road," authorities said.
"If you were walking along the main road you wouldn't get pricked by a cactus. To do that, you would have had to have left the main road and be half way up the mountain."