He flew out to the Spanish island of Tenerife to attend the NRG music festival with friends, but has not been seen or heard from since June 17.
Local police fear Slater may have accidentally fallen to his death while walking in a remote area of Tenerife.
The timeline of events that has emerged paints a picture of his last known whereabouts, but Jay’s family and officials in Tenerife are still looking for answers.
Timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance
Sunday June 16
Jay attended the NRG (New Rave Generation) music festival in the southwest of the island with his friends, including mate Lucy Mae Law .
Jay reportedly told those at the property that he wanted to go home, and was informed that there was a bus every 10 minutes going to Los Cristianos, where he was staying.
The investigation moved to the south of Tenerife, but the sighting was found to be false and the search was forced to return north to the area around Masca.
Cops also searched Jay’s room in Los Cristianos but found nothing untoward; his passport, money and clothes were all as he had left them.
Reports came in of a possible sighting of Jay in Santiago del Teide, a village about 3.5 miles away from Masca.
A witness claimed to have seen Jay and two men sitting on a bench outside a church at about 6:00pm on the Monday — some 9 hours after the missing persons report had been filed.
The revelation of the unconfirmed sighting came as Jay’s dad, Warren Slater , visited the search area.
Friends of the missing man also spoke out to slam online trolls who had apparently hacked Jay’s Instagram account.
Search teams have focused on the Teno Rural Park PA
In a TikTok video, Isla spoke about the two men, recalling what Brad had told her.
Drones, sniffer dogs and helicopters are also part of the search operation Ian Whittaker
The TV crime reporter said: “The two men that he went to go and stay with, they had met them three days before. They hung out with them, they made friends on holiday.
“It wasn’t two random people he’d met that night. They’d established a friendship and Brad said they seemed like really cool guys.”
Tuesday July 2
Jay’s mum Debbie released a heartbreaking statement after the search for her son was called off after 14 days.
Her emotional message was issued through the British overseas missing persons charity LBT Global, she 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 phonecall 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 travelled 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.”
She also rubbished theories that the whopping £50,000 raised on a GoFundMe for Jay is being used for anything untoward.
Debbie said: “For those of you who are more concerned around the Gofundme page I can assure you that up to now it has not been used and our stay up to now has been financed by ourselves.
“I did not ask for publicity from the start and was not aware that the first missing poster had my telephone number on it.
“It should have had the SOS Guardia Civil but like I say this was out of my control. We are a normal working family from Lancashire going through hell.”
Glen told The Sun: “I’ve been thinking third party involvement from the start.
“There’s just some things that have already been out there.”
In a bombshell claim, Glen also said he was “baffled” by the police decision to rule out two men who Jay spent the night with at a £40-a-night Airbnb before he vanished.
Spanish cops spoke to both men and cleared them to return to the UK, dubbing them “irrelevant” to the investigation.
Jay’s brother Zak (left), a volunteer (centre) and his dad Warren (right) looking for the missing teen
He warned it would take “an army 10 years” to search the vast mountainous area where Jay vanished.
Speaking to The Sun Warren said: “As a family, we need to ask the British authorities to help. He’s a British citizen. Get Interpol involved.
“At the moment, it’s just us. I haven’t got a team. We need a team to come over here and find out for us what the police are doing and what we need to do.
“Our hands are tied over here – we need experts.
“It’ll take an army 10 years to cover all this. I’d employ a team of Gurkhas.”
Saturday July 13
The mystery of the teen’s disappearance deepened after Jay’s last known location on June 17 was thought to be marked by a ping from his cellphone on Tenerife.
The new theory stated that the 19-year-old threw his phone into the bushes in order to avoid detection after allegedly stealing a £12,000 Rolex.
He could have then made his way down the nearby Los Gigantes cliffs via a safe route to a nearby jetty.
There, Jay may have boarded a waiting boat and skipped the island – meaning the teen might be alive and well somewhere else.
Mysteriously, a 14ft yacht named the Maruba was also reportedly recorded sailing past Masca beach around the time of Slater’s disappearance.
A short time afterwards, the yacht’s signal stopped registering on electronic maps.
Monday July 15
Spanish cops announced that a body has been discovered in the area Jay was last known to be in — Masca.
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