A close friend of British teen Jay Slater who spoke to him shortly before he went missing in Tenerife has shared a new photo of them together.
Lucy Law posted an image with a crying face and blue heart emoji following his disappearance nearly three weeks ago. The 19-year-old vanished shortly after 8am on June 17. Lucy, who was the last known person to speak to Jay, uploaded the image on Instagram. He was last heard of when he phoned her to say he was "lost in the middle of nowhere".
The apprentice bricklayer had attended the NRG music festival with two friends before his disappearance, and his last known location was the Rural de Teno Park in the north of the Canary Island. It was earlier reported that he stayed at an Airbnb overnight and was last seen by two men at the rental.
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According to Lucy, Jay had told her that he planned to walk back from the Airbnb to his accommodation after missing a bus, which would take around 11 hours on foot. She also added that his phone was on one percent battery. Lucy previously described the situation as "weird" and said: “There’s something weird going on. It is suspicious. In two days you’re telling me someone’s not seen him. There’s a restaurant 10 minutes away that he would have seen or walked past. It’s suspicious and it’s weird."
His pal earlier said: "Fair enough it didn’t open for another two hours but if that were me I would have sat and waited at the restaurant till it opened. As soon as it opened I would have said, ‘Please can you put my phone on charge’ and then I would have rung someone, I would have rung a taxi."
Lucy hasn't commented publicly about the missing case in more than two weeks, but she previously shared an update after she had located the two people who saw Jay an hour before he vanished. She said: "We managed to find the house. I knocked on the door and there were two people there."
She went on to say that the pair had told her that Jay went to purchase cigarettes before returning to their apartment. However, once he got back he is said to have told them he wanted to go back to his accommodation. "They told me he'd spoken to the next door neighbors and they'd told him there was a bus every 10 minutes back down to Los Cristianos," she explained.
"The bus stop was right next to the house. So obviously if he'd gone to get the bus he wouldn't have got lost because it [the stop] was visible from the front door." On Thursday, the man who had rented the Airbnb, named Ayub Qassim, addressed the missing case and said Jay arrived to the holiday home alive and also left alive. Spanish police previously questioned Qassim and his unnamed friend and determined them to be "irrelevant" to the investigation.
He told The Mail he had let the 19-year-old stay because he "had nowhere else to go" and alleged that all his friends "had left him". Qassim said he knew the bricklayer through friends and said he was doing him a "favor" by letting him stay. His remarks come after the land search for the missing Brit had been called off.
Jay's mother Debbie Duncan recently released a statement and said: "Jay is a normal guy who is in his third year of an apprenticeship, and he is a very popular young man with a large circle of friends. We are a very close family and are absolutely devastated about his disappearance. Words cannot describe the pain and agony we are experiencing. He is our beautiful boy with his whole life ahead of him and we just want to find him. We do not have any information on his whereabouts.
“The Guardia Civil have worked tirelessly up in the mountains where Jay’s last phone call was traced. They conducted a land search for 12 days which involved every resource they had available. Although the land search ended, the Spanish police still continue with their investigations into why Jay had traveled to the location so far away from his accommodation. We offer our sincere thanks to the Spanish authorities who continue to follow lines of inquiries."
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