Jay Slater missing in Tenerife: Investigator urges men the teen stayed with in remote Airbnb to come forward

A former detective has said he will track down the two mystery men missing teenager Jay Slater stayed with the night before he vanished, revealing key new details.

Jay, 19, from Lancashire, has been missing since June 17 when he vanished in the mountains of north-west Tenerife. He had been staying in an Airbnb rental the night before he disappeared after “going off alone” to a remote part of the island.

So far, rescue efforts to bring Jay home have seen members of the Civil Guard, firefighters and mountain rescue teams deployed to the vast and “dangerous” Teno Rural Park, while friends and Jay's family also traveled to the island to help with the search. Meanwhile, Jay's mum Debbie Duncan revealed she had “barely slept” and was “out of breath”.

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Speaking to reporters, former detective turned TV detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who flew to Tenerife to carry out his own independent investigation into what happened to the teenager, said he wanted find the two British men Jay is said to have been staying with. with in the Airbnb rental, in the Masca countryside, if they don't show up.

He said he has since learned the name of one of the individuals and has a photo of the other man. He said they were both described as being aged between 30 and 40 years old.

“So far, I have been able to speak to a lot of witnesses who were with him or who encountered him. There are a number of them who are probably not entirely truthful, and I have l “I intend to continue following up with these people,” he said. .

“There are two key people we haven't spoken to yet, and they are the two men who took Jay back to that vacation rental in the hills. These two men spoke to the police – but are now back in England.

“I urge these two individuals to come forward. I need to speak to these individuals, they have critical information. There will be you, as well as many others who will ask very pertinent questions about why they were here, what they said they were doing and why they brought Jay back to this vacation rental.

“What we don't know is why, if they were partying here, they went to a vacation rental about an hour away in a very isolated location. I don't know the answer to that question, but I'm focusing on that to find these people I'm giving them the opportunity to come forward, they're crucial witnesses and to ask questions that might provide answers.

Revealing key new details for the former, Mark said that in the early hours of Monday (June 17), the pair allegedly met up with Jay and friends at bars along the Playa de las Americas strip.

The morning he left the club, at 4 a.m., Mark said Jay would have been “in control of himself.” He claims the teenager sat on the wall outside the room before getting into a car with the two men to return to Masca.

He also told reporters that a number of “key witnesses”, a number of whom are friends of Jay, had since returned to the UK. He claimed he received “a lot of communications” of messages and calls shared between Jay and others, but they were lost because they were on Snapchat.

“It’s about finding Jay, we need as many people as possible to get involved,” he said. “There are people here who know more. There are people here who have information who saw Jay, had contact with Jay while he was here. If you were at those clubs that night or early in the morning, please come forward.”

Speaking about the possible CCTV sighting of Jay in the village of Santiago del Teide on Monday evening, Mark added: “It's not the best footage. Yes, it could be him, but if you walk around that area you I see a lot of young men who look like Jay, dress like Jay, and have bleached skin like Jay.

“One of the things that worries me is where was he in those eight hours before he ended up in this place. To get back to this village, you would have had to walk on the road.

“We don't know where he's going. What we need to know is, did anyone arrive in that area that morning? It's a busy area, both with tourists and people. locals, if you've seen Jay, let us know. Anyone, let us know.

Mark says there are “two scenarios”, adding: “Either he was injured by accident, somewhere in the hills, but not directly by the rental.” Or there is a third party involved. I cannot rule out this possibility at the moment. »

Anyone with information can contact the helpline number, set up by Mark, on 07507833099.