Jay Slater: New details on missing teenager’s last known movements shared as detective appeals for two men to come forward

Searching for new leads on missing teenager Jay Slater, a former police detective who played a crucial role in uncovering Jimmy Savile’s crimes has vowed to track down two elusive individuals last seen with the boy.

Jay Slater, 19, from Lancashire, went missing on June 17 in the rugged north-west of Tenerife after he was reported to have ‘went off on his own’ to a remote part of the island following his stay at an Airbnb.

The search for Jay involved the Civil Guard, firefighters and mountain rescue teams scouring the difficult countryside of Teno Park. His friends and family also traveled to Tenerife to help with the search.

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Throughout this rigorous journey, Jay’s mother, Debbie Duncan, expressed her deep distress, confessing that she had “barely slept” and was “out of her mind with worry”.

Pledging his support, former detective and TV investigator Mark Williams-Thomas, who is conducting his own investigation in Tenerife into Jay’s disappearance, said he was committed to tracking down the two Britons suspected of accompanying Jay to the isolated Airbnb in Mask and urged them to come forward, the Mirror revealed, Chronicle Live reports.

In a recent interview, Mark revealed new details about the night Jay and his colleagues crossed paths with two men while in Playa de las Americas. Mark recounted that after leaving a club at 4am, Jay seemed to have his wits about him.

He described how Jay took a moment to sit on a wall outside the nightclub before getting into a car with the two men, heading towards Masca.

Williams-Thomas made progress in the investigation, identifying one of the men involved and obtaining a photograph of the other, noting that both were in their 30s or 40s.

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“So far I have been able to speak to a large number of witnesses who were either with him or met him. There are some whose accounts are probably not entirely true and I intend to pursue those people,” he shared with the Manchester Evening News. “There are two key people we haven’t spoken to yet and those are the two men who took Jay back to that vacation rental in the hills. These two men gave their statements to the police – but are now back in England. “

“I urge the two people to come forward. I need to talk to these people, they have crucial information. There will be you, as well as many other people asking you very pertinent questions about why they were here, what they were doing, and why they took Jay back to that vacation rental Answer that, but my focus is to find those people who I give an opportunity to come forward, are crucial witnesses and ask questions that might be answered.

Mark also shared with reporters that several “key witnesses”, many of them Jay’s friends, have returned to the UK. He mentioned that he received “a lot of communications” – messages and calls exchanged between Jay and others that were unfortunately lost because they were sent via Snapchat.

“This is about finding Jay, we need as many people as possible to get involved,” he pleaded. “There are people here who know more. There are people here who have information who saw Jay, had contact with Jay when he was here. If you were in those clubs that night or early morning please. Come forward.”

Speaking about a possible CCTV sighting of Jay in Santiago del Teide on Monday night (June 24), Mark said: ‘It’s not the best of pictures. Yes, it could be him, but if you walk around this area here, you’ll see a lot of young people who look like Jay, dress like Jay, and have faded skin like Jay.”

“One of the things that worries me is where he was in those eight hours before he got to that location. To get back to that village you would have had to go down the road.”

“We don’t know where he’s going. What we need to know is, did anyone drive into that area that morning? It’s a busy area with both tourists and locals, if you’ve seen Jay let me know- us. Anyone, let us know.”

Mark suggested there were ‘two scenarios’, explaining: ‘Either he suffered harm through his own accident, in the hills somewhere, but not directly through the rental. Or, there is a third party involvement. I cannot rule this out. At this point.”