The mom of lacking British teenager Jay Slater claims she has obtained a sick snapchat message from trolls studying: ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you are by no means going to see him once more, he owes me some huge cash.’
The hunt for the lacking teenager is coming into its fourth day on the island of Tenerife after he disappeared on Monday morning after attending the NRG music competition the next night time.
Following the competition, Jay left the placement and travelled to a property in a automobile in a nationwide park about 40 minutes drive away with two males earlier than leaving shortly earlier than 7am.
Debbie Duncan, the mom of the apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, has now claimed that her son ‘is not silly’ and that she is now working off the idea he has been kidnapped.
Debbie Duncan, the mom of the apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, has now claimed that her son ‘is not silly’ and that she is now working off the idea he has been kidnapped. They’re pictured collectively above
Jay Slater, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, travelled to the Canary Islands for a competition
She defined: ‘I’ve obtained a foul feeling. I am being warned there’s plenty of dangerous individuals in Tenerife. I simply assume he is being held in opposition to his will. He isn’t a silly lad. He would not have gone strolling down bloody mountains.
‘There is no ransom demand are available in but. I’ve advised them [police] my suspicions, that I believe Jay’s been taken up north by individuals in opposition to his will.’
A good friend has since shed extra gentle on Jay’s closing moments main as much as his disappearance.
Lucy Mae, who was with Jay on the competition, was the final particular person to talk to Jay and reported him lacking on Monday morning.
{The teenager}, who was on his first vacation with pals, is believed to have gotten right into a automobile with two males within the early hours of Monday and ended up at their lodging in a nationwide park about 40 minutes drive away.
Social media posts from the night time earlier than present Jay smiling in a gray t-shirt with inexperienced patches on the shoulders and in his final social media publish, he shared an out of focus picture of a hand holding a cigarette at 7.30am on the property the place he travelled to with the 2 males.
Panic erupted when, at round 8.50am, a disoriented Jay known as his good friend Lucy Mae as he tried to stroll again to Playa de las Americas however was thirsty, misplaced and solely had one per cent battery on his cellphone.
At 2:30am on Tuesday morning, Jay’s mom Debbie was alerted to his disappearance
Jay is seen on this picture shared to his good friend Lucy’s social media days earlier than he disappeared
Pictured are drones within the sky looking for Jay yesterday
Jay was reported lacking on Sunday morning by good friend Lucy Mae
The decision reduce out and {the teenager} has not been seen or heard from since, however his final recognized location was within the distant Rural de Teno Park, a 10-hour stroll from the place he was staying.
Talking to media, Lucy claimed that Jay had advised her wanted a drink, did not know the place he was and had ‘reduce his leg on a cactus.’
A panicked Lucy set off to go looking the world the place Jay had final been seen and managed to find the home the place Jay on account of a picture he had shared on-line.
She stated: ‘We managed to seek out the home. I knocked on the door and there have been two individuals there.
‘They advised me he’d spoken to the subsequent door neighbours they usually’d advised him there was a bus each 10 minutes again all the way down to Los Cristianos.
‘The bus cease was proper subsequent to the home. So clearly if he’d gone to get the bus he would not have gotten misplaced as a result of it [the stop] was seen from the entrance door.’
At 2:30am on Tuesday morning, Jay’s mom Debbie and step-dad Andy Watson, 63, had been alerted to his disappearance when law enforcement officials knock on their door within the early hours of the morning.
The officers suggested that the perfect factor they may do was to get ‘your self on the market’.
A screenshot of Jay’s final recognized location the place his cellphone battery died
Police had been checking vans yesterday to attempt to discover {the teenager}
A MailOnline graphic detailing the timeline of occasions from when Jay attended the three-day NRG competition to his location when his cellphone died at round 8.50am on Monday
While police, sniffer canines and helicopters comb the mountains of the island, Jay’s mom Debbie Duncan and father Warren fly to Tenerife with different relations and pals to affix the search.
Yesterday, concern for Jay’s wellbeing deepens spurred on by a false sighting and several other malicious communications despatched to his distraught mom.
Ms Duncan says twisted Brits with ‘northern accents’ had been phoning her with hidden numbers and claiming they’d her son captive and had been conserving him as a result of he owed them cash.
She stated: ‘Among the cellphone calls I have been getting have been horrible. I simply do not know why individuals would wish to do issues like this.
‘I have been getting a number of prank calls. It is sickening. Individuals ringing me and saying they have Jay as a result of he owes them cash.
‘Nevertheless it’s not placing me off and I wish to preserve this within the information as a result of it will improve the probabilities of Jay being discovered secure and effectively which is clearly what we’re praying for.’
Lacking Jay posted a closing image at 7.30am on Snapchat from the home of ‘two English lads’ an hour earlier than phoning his good friend Lucy
Officers had re-focused their efforts on the vacationer resorts of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas after receiving stories of an alleged sighting of the teenager.
Responding to the deceptive report of Jay being sighted on the alternative aspect of the island, Lucy stated: ‘Somebody has given a false result in the police saying he is rang a taxi all the way down to Los Cristianos.
‘If this was the case he would have rang his mum or certainly one of us. I do know him effectively and he wouldn’t have us worrying.
‘Somebody is making an attempt to discourage the police from him being up there. I am beginning to assume he is been kidnapped.’
Police and emergency companies proceed their search, combing the mountain with drones and sniffer canines and reportedly stopping motorists within the space.
