When did Jay Slater go missing?
Jay Slater, 19, from Lancashire, was on the holiday island for a three-day music festival and had stayed the night with people he had just met before disappearing on his way home on Monday.
He vanished after making a desperate phone call at 8am on Monday morning to his long-time pal Lucy – saying he was in the “middle of nowhere”.
The frantic teen said he was lost, needed water and only had 1 per cent battery left on his mobile phone.
‘He’s ended up in the middle of nowhere’
The people Jay met on Sunday night were staying in an apartment “in the middle of nowhere”, his close friend Lucy told the Manchester Evening News.
Jay told Lucy he “didn’t know where he was” and he needed a drink of water before the call cut off.
Local police and the British Embassy have been been told about Jay’s disappearance with mountain rescue teams and a helicopter patrolling the park since Monday.
Lucy said: “He’s gone on a night out, he’s gone to a friend’s house, someone that he has met on holiday.
“One of the people he has met has hired a car out of here, so he’s driven them back to his apartment and Jay has gone there not realising how far away it is.
“He’s ended up out in the middle of nowhere. Jay was obviously thinking he would be able to get home from there.”
Jay Slater’s attire
Jay Slater was wearing the following clothes when he went missing:
- grey sports t-shirt
- A light green strip on the shoulders
- black crossbody bag
Mum continues to receive prank calls
Debbie also said she has been bombarded with prank calls from trolls claiming to have kidnapped her son.
She told how Brits with “northern accents” have been calling her with hidden numbers, claiming they had her son captive and were keeping him because he owed them money.
She said: “I just don’t know why people would want to do things like this.
“I’ve been getting lots of prank calls. It’s sickening.
“People ringing me and saying they’ve got Jay because he owes them money.
“But it’s not putting me off… I want to keep this in the news because it’s going to increase the chances of Jay being found safe and well which is obviously what we’re praying for.”
Jay Slater missing timeline, part four
Jay’s mum flew out to Tenerife with Jay’s older brother on Tuesday to help with the frantic search.
Her partner Andy Watson, 63, said “Jay was no mug” but could have taken a wrong turn on an 8-hour walk back to his hotel.
He said Jay could have got even more lost during the 8-hour hike after losing his bearings.
Speaking outside their home in Oswaldtwistle, Andy told The Sun: “It’s really worrying. It feels like a blur at the moment.
“Jay is very streetwise and he’s no mug but if it’s it was dark and he had no touch on his phone he could have gone the wrong way and become more lost than he was.”
Andy said Jay had disappeared after going to a rave with his pal Lucy.
Jay Slater missing timeline, part three
Now a desperate police search is underway, with cops and mountain rescue scouring the rugged landscape with drones and police helicopters.
Temperatures of up to 26 degrees celsius were recorded around the time Jay went missing.
A Civil Guard spokeswoman in Tenerife said: “A specialist Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group called the Greim has been mobilised.
“A police helicopter is also out and focusing on the area around the village of Masca.
“Other emergency services including firefighters have also been mobilised.
“Everything possible is being done to try to find the missing man.”