Inside week-long seek for Jay Slater: How hunt unfolded for British teenager, 19, who vanished in Tenerife after telling pal he was ‘misplaced within the mountains with no water and one per cent battery’

British holidaymaker Jay Slater seemingly vanished with out hint precisely seven days in the past in Tenerife.

Regardless of an intensive search by rescue groups and police on the Spanish vacation island, there have been no additional clues of potential sightings.

Right here, MailOnline items collectively all the things recognized concerning the apprentice bricklayer’s mysterious disappearance.

Jay, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, flew from Manchester together with his pal Brad Hargreaves on June 12 eagerly wanting ahead to the three-day NRG dance competition that was being held within the infamous Veronica’s Strip space of Playa de las Americas.

They checked into their £70-a-night floor flooring house on the Paloma Seashore complicated in close by Los Cristianos and met up with mates Lucy Regulation and Brandon Hodgkin, each 19.

It was Jay’s first vacation overseas and his mom faculty finance officer Debbie Duncan, 55, had warned him to ‘watch out and have your wits about you’.

Initially it appears for the primary few days that was the case as they loved what competition organisers NRG described of their flyers as a ‘weekend of beautiful visuals and progressive productions.’

It kicked off with a gap occasion at Xanadu, adopted by a pool occasion at The Seashore at Laborious Rock Lodge and an after occasion at Xandau which Jay energetically took half in.

On the third and ultimate day, he and his mates attended an out of doors rave adopted by an after occasion on the Papagayo Seashore Membership on the finish of Veronica’s Strip.

The half-mile stretch of seashore entrance is house to quite a few bars and golf equipment and likewise attracts drug sellers by the dozen with pushers providing something each few toes.

Particles together with hippy crack cannisters, balloons and small plastic wrap luggage litter the pavement which avenue cleaners do their greatest to comb away each morning when the golf equipment shut at 5am.

It’s recognized that Jay was final seen at Papagayo by Lucy at round 1am when she mentioned she was going to return to her house with Brad.

Jay as a substitute mentioned he could be staying with two thriller British males he had met that night time and regardless of Lucy repeatedly asking him to go house again to his house with them.

It’s now recognized that simply earlier than Papagayo closed there was a brawl exterior with police concerned to interrupt it up – though there isn’t any suggestion that Jay was concerned.

An worker at Papagayo informed MailOnline: ‘The final night time was loopy, there have been so many individuals and it was insanity, the youngsters had been all both drunk or excessive.

‘Simply earlier than we shut there was an enormous battle exterior and the police had been known as however that is nothing new it occurs on a regular basis right here – it is often between rival drug gangs.’

Footage from Papagayo obtained by MailOnline exhibits Jay dancing with Lucy after which at one level later he was topless, smiling and together with his manbag strapped over his shoulder.

It’s recognized that Jay left the membership with the 2 males, they usually drove 19 miles alongside a tortuous winding mountain street to the village of Masca within the Parque Rural de Tenco.

The lads – described by a bar proprietor subsequent door as of their late 30s to early 40s – had employed a £40-a-night Airbnb known as Casa Abuela Tina for 3 days.

Simply why two males would rent an house an excellent hour from the energetic hotspot of Playa de las Americas shouldn’t be clear, however they’ve been questioned by Spanish police and are actually again within the UK.

It’s recognized that at 7.30am on Monday June 17, the day he vanished, Jay despatched two Snapchat photographs from the home – one exhibiting the view from the entrance door – and one other him holding a cigarette on the doorstep.

Ofelia Medina Hernandez – whose brother Roman Antonio Martin Canaves, a former mayor of the close by city of El Tanque owns the Airbnb – mentioned she had seen Jay standing by the bus cease immediately exterior and he had requested about buses again to Los Cristianos.

Ms Medina Hernandez defined that the subsequent bus down the mountain within the Parque Rural de Teno was not till two hours later at 10am.

She mentioned: ‘I held up my fingers on my arms to say 10am as he did not perceive me. I then went house briefly earlier than driving up the mountain to Buenavista del Norte. This time I noticed him strolling on the street out of the village.

‘It was not more than ten or fifteen minutes after I had spoken to him, and he was a few kilometre from the home. I drove previous him and that is the final I noticed him.’

Lucy Regulation informed MailOnline that the final message she had from Jay was at 8.50am. She mentioned Jay phoned her and informed her he was ‘misplaced, wanted water and had one per cent battery’ on his cell – and that he was going to attempt to stroll 11 hours again.

However utilizing the pictures he had posted on Snapchat Lucy was in a position to monitor down the Airbnb the place he had been staying inside three hours of his final telephone name and spoke to the 2 British males who had been staying there.

Lucy informed us: ‘They appeared startled and shocked that I had discovered them, and I requested them the place Jay was.

‘They mentioned he had gone out to attempt to search for cigarettes after which come again and mentioned he was leaving to attempt to get a bus again into city.

‘They only appeared shocked that I had managed to seek out them, and I do know the police have spoken to them, however I’ve since discovered they’ve left the nation. They have to be spoken to correctly.’

Lucy added: ‘What I do not perceive is that if he did stroll down then why wasn’t he seen by anybody? It is a busy time of day, the place is filled with hikers and holidaymakers, he might have requested them for assist or stopped someplace however nobody has seen him in any respect.’

The Airbnb was rented out by the 2 males from Friday to Monday, however they stayed on an additional day after being questioned by police following Jay’s disappearance.

Locals have informed MailOnline one of many males is called ‘Johnny Vegas’ and Spanish police confirmed they’d the names and passport particulars of each.

Jay’s frantic mom Debbie arrived on Tenerife final Tuesday after being woken by Lancashire police at house to inform her Jay was lacking and she or he ought to ‘head on the market’ to attempt to assist discover him.

At 7am she flew from Manchester to Tenerife along with her older son, Zak, 24. Shortly after she arrived Debbie was despatched a menacing message on Snapchat that learn: ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you are by no means going to see him once more, he owes me some huge cash.’

Debbie is satisfied Jay is being held ‘towards his will’. Police insist it stays a lacking individual enquiry and say they’re ‘retaining an open thoughts’ – and ‘have not dominated something out’.

It’s not recognized who despatched Debbie these messages and it begs the query that Debbie is asking – was he kidnapped and is he being held to ransom? Did he stroll the mistaken approach as a result of he was making an attempt to get away from somebody?

MailOnline has been informed the final sign from Jay’s telephone pinged at a mast exterior the and Mirador la Cruz de Hilda restaurant – round half a mile from the Airbnb.

Pals of Jay’s have trawled the realm for days with no signal of him.

On Thursday – three days after he was final seen – Lucy arrange the GoFundMe web page with a really certain quantity of £30,000 being the goal. It was smashed inside three days of being arrange.

The household have mentioned they won’t contact the cash and can solely use it for residing bills if wanted whereas they’re in Tenerife.

Initially Debbie was additionally staying on the Paloma Seashore flats the place her son was staying – however she has since transfer out to a different property close by.

On Friday she had an eight-hour assembly with police which she described as a ‘screaming and shouting’ session after she was informed Spanish police had rejected a proposal by Lancashire police to assist with the search.

Debbie informed MailOnline: ‘I do not see why they turned down the assistance, absolutely the extra the higher. I do know it is their nation, however we’re having horrible bother with the language and we’d like all the assistance we are able to get.’

Police have spent the final eight days trawling the Masca gorge the place Jay’s telephone final pinged utilizing helicopters, drones and canines – however have give you nothing.

On Saturday, Jay’s father Warren, 58, and brother Zak visited the positioning and embraced one another earlier than bursting into tears.

And on Saturday Debbie had informed MailOnline {that a} man had come ahead to say he had seen a boy resembling Jay sat with two males on a bench exterior the San Fernando Rey church in Santiago del Teide at 6pm on Monday.

The church is round three and a half miles from the rugged Rural de Teno park – and 15 miles from Playa de las Americas the place Jay was staying.

They’ve additionally pinned their hopes on a grainy CCTV picture taken from a webcam at at Santiago de Teide close to the church at across the similar time exhibiting a male determine, though police have refused to be drawn into whether or not or not it’s Jay.

Actually it has given the household a crumb of hope and on Sunday Warren and Zak had been again on the church placing up lacking posters with Jay’s image.

Warren mentioned: ‘You assume, has any person obtained him? As a result of irrespective of in the event you had been drunk or no matter, you do not go off that street up there.

‘And there are individuals up there… you do not go alongside that street for greater than 20 minutes with out any person stopping you or passing you.

‘I knew proper from after I went up there that he would not have gone (off the street). He is not silly. After I noticed the police I requested them, significantly, ‘would you go off that street’ and I feel it labored them up a bit.

‘It began out because it being a lad who had gone strolling and obtained misplaced or that he could have fallen. But it surely would not make sense. No person would stroll off that street? Why would he have gone uphill?

‘It is harmful, it is a huge mountain. It is not only a hill. It was solely after I was up there myself (that I observed). Those who exit to a celebration do not come up right here.’