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Two people Jay Slater left with the night he disappeared say 19-year-old was 'directed to a bus stop near the house' and left

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The last people to see missing British teenager Jay Slater said they “directed him towards a bus stop” and then he left, it was revealed last night.

Concerned friends have tracked down two people the 19-year-old bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, had gone with the night before he went missing.

Jay was last seen getting into a car with two people he met on Sunday evening after the NRG music festival in the south of Tenerife.

He allegedly traveled with them to a property in Teno Rural Park, about a 40-minute drive from where he was staying in Playa de las Americas.

Jay was reported missing Monday morning after calling his friend to say he had missed a bus and was walking home, but was lost, dehydrated and only had one percent of battery on his phone. He has not been seen since.

Debbie Duncan, the mother of Oswaldtwistle's apprentice mason, has now claimed her son “wasn't stupid” and was now working on the assumption he had been kidnapped. They are pictured together above

Last night Lucy Law revealed more about the panicked phone call she received from Jay, including that he had “cut his leg on a cactus” while trying to walk along the remote path.

Shedding light on his last known contact, the teenager told Sky News how Jay posted a Snapchat image of some mountains next to the house he had been to and, using vital clues, he was in search of the property.

She said: “We managed to find the house. I knocked on the door and there were two people there.

The occupants told him that Jay had gone out to smoke a cigarette before returning and saying he wanted to go home.

Jay's latest photo on Snapchat is a blurry image of a hand holding cigarettes at a property in the Buenavista del Norte area at 7:30 a.m. Monday.

“They told me he spoke to the neighbors next door and they told him there was a bus every 10 minutes to go back to Los Cristianos,” she said.

Jay was reported missing Sunday morning by his friend Lucy Mae.
Jay Slater, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, traveled to the Canary Islands for a festival

“The bus stop was right next to the house. So obviously, if he had gone to find the bus, he wouldn't have gotten lost because [the stop] was visible from the front door.

The search for Jay entered its third day with mountain rescue teams, sniffer dogs and police scouring the island's northwest mountainous region for any signs of his presence.

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Around 15 of Jay's family and friends traveled to Tenerife to help with the search, including his mother Debbie Duncan, father Warren Slater and brother Zak.

Since his disappearance, Mrs Duncan has received sickening phone calls from trolls claiming to have kidnapped her son.

Yesterday she revealed another horrific message sent to her just moments after she landed in Tenerife.

It read: “Say goodbye to your boy, you'll never see him again, he owes me a lot of money.” »

Distraught Ms Duncan said her son was “street savvy” and “not stupid”, now fearing he had been kidnapped.

She explained: “I have a bad feeling. I am warned that there are a lot of bad people in Tenerife. I just think he's being held against his will. He's not a stupid boy. He wouldn't have come down from the damn mountains.

“No ransom demand has yet been received. I told them [police] my suspicions, that I think Jay was taken north by people against his will.

On Tuesday morning at 2:30 a.m., Jay's mother, Debbie, was alerted that he was missing.
Jay is seen in this image shared on his friend Lucy's social media a few days before her disappearance

Pictured are drones in the sky searching for Jay yesterday

Social media posts from the day before the show where Jay went missing show the teen smiling in a gray t-shirt with green spots on the shoulders.

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In his latest social media post, he shared a blurry photo of a hand holding a cigarette at 7:30 a.m. at the property he visited with the two men.

Panic broke out when, around 8:50 a.m., a disoriented Jay called Lucy while trying to walk back to Playa de las Americas, but he was thirsty, lost and only had one percent battery on his phone .

The call was disconnected and the teenager has not been seen or heard from since, but his last known location was in the remote Teno Country Park, a 10-hour walk from where he was staying.

At 2.30am on Tuesday morning, Jay's mother Debbie and his stepfather Andy Watson, 63, were alerted to his disappearance when police knocked on their door early in the morning.

Officers said the best thing to do was to “get there.”

A screenshot of Jay's last known location where his phone battery died
Police were checking vans yesterday to try to find the teenager
A MailOnline graphic detailing the timeline of events from when Jay attended the three-day NRG festival to where he was when his phone died around 8:50 a.m. Monday.

As police, sniffer dogs and helicopters scour the island's mountains, Jay's mother Debbie Duncan and father Warren fly to Tenerife with other relatives and friends to join the search.

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Yesterday, concern for Jay's well-being grew, driven by a false sighting and several malicious communications sent to his distraught mother.

Ms Duncan said crooked Brits with “northern accents” had phoned her with hidden numbers and claimed they had her son captive and were keeping him because he owed them money.

She said: “Some of the phone calls I’ve received have been horrible. I just don't know why people would want to do things like that.

“I got a lot of prank calls. It's disgusting. People call me and tell me they have Jay because he owes them money.

“But that doesn't put me off and I want to keep it in the news because it's going to increase the chances that Jay will be found safe, which is obviously what we're praying for.”

Missing Jay posted a last photo at 7.30am on Snapchat from the house of “two English guys”, an hour before phoning her friend Lucy.

Officers refocused their efforts on the tourist resorts of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas after receiving reports of an alleged sighting of the teenager.

Responding to the misleading report that Jay was seen on the other side of the island, Lucy said: “Someone gave the police a false lead saying he had called a taxi to Los Cristianos.

“If that was the case, he would have called his mother or one of us. I know him well and he wouldn't want us to worry.

“Someone is trying to talk the police out of stopping him from going up there. I'm starting to think he was kidnapped.

Police and emergency services are continuing their search, combing the mountain with drones and sniffer dogs and apparently stopping motorists in the area.

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