Missing persons expert presents clear strategy for police

Lina Portman2 weeks ago

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A missing persons expert has outlined a clear direction police should follow following the disappearance of teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife earlier this week.

Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from on Monday when he told a friend he planned to walk to his accommodation after missing a bus, a journey expected to take about 11 hours on foot.

He told his friends Lucy Law that his phone had 1% charge, was lost and needed water.

Speaking to GB News, former head of Lambeth's missing persons unit, Mike Neville explained that Spanish police should “rely on humans and dogs”.

Jay Slater flew from Lancashire to the Canary Islands for a music festival when he disappeared PA wire

He said: “This area of Tenerife is quite wooded. There are so many places where someone could have lay down to rest or take shelter, and it's not that visible from the air.

“So even though the Spanish police use helicopters and drones, they really rely on humans. Whether it's police officers, volunteers or park rangers and dogs trying to locate Jay Slater, we can only hope that he is alive and that he is OK.”

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GB News presenter Anne Diamond said: “There's a lot we're not being told, which I suppose you can understand at the moment.

“But for example, the two British men he was seen with at one point were staying in a B&B or rented accommodation, and the press and police have already spoken to the landlady there “So there must be things that we're not telling them that they're investigating as well.”

He replied: “There's all kinds of speculation on social media and things that have been reported in the press about Jay's past and those things will be looked into.

“There was another possible sighting a few hours later, which his mother pointed out. But Spanish police seem to be focusing on this theory that he got lost himself.

The search for the missing teenager has intensified in recent days

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“They're going with the idea that he called and said he was lost. So they seem to be ruling out any element of criminality or some sort of kidnapping, and they're really focusing on that area of the park.”

His friend Lucy said Slater had gone to the homes of people he had met on holiday during a night out.

She said she received a call from the 19-year-old around 8:15 a.m. Monday after he missed the bus and was trying to walk home.

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Its latest location is Reno Rural Park, a mountainous area popular with hikers.

Yesterday, Slater's mother said the search had been “intensified” as Spanish police searched for her missing son.

Debbie Duncan told the Guardian she spent eight hours in a police station on Friday as police outlined their detailed plans to search for the missing apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire. “I think it’s been intensified,” she said, which she called “too fair.”