Missing Jay Slater’s mother issues major update on GoFundMe money

The mother of missing teenager Jay Slater has revealed that funds on her son’s GoFundMe page, which has topped £36,000 in donations, have now been withdrawn. Debbie Duncan broke the news in a major donor update.

Debbie, who flew to Tenerife the day after Jay, 19, was reported missing, said: ‘Hi everyone, this is Debbie again. First of all, I would like to thank everyone for their support, kind messages and well wishes. It’s hard. to understand what’s going on now, but we’re not giving up hope that we’ll find Jay and come home together.”

According to the Mirror, Debbie revealed that the money raised for ‘Get Jay Slater home’ will now be used to help mountain rescue teams. She said she was “searching tirelessly for Jay.”

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Debbie said: “We are currently liaising with GoFundMe to withdraw some of the funds, which are being held securely. I wanted to let you know that these funds will be used to help the mountain rescue teams who are tirelessly searching for Jay.”

The GoFundMe page was started by Jay’s close friend Lucy Mae Law with an initial target of £30,000. After nationwide confusion over where the money was going, it was later revealed that the money would be used to cover travel and accommodation expenses for Jay’s friends and family, who flew to Tenerife to help with the search. Despite its £30,000 target, fundraising currently stands at £36,315 in donations from concerned members of the public.

In her statement, Debbie said: “Furthermore, as our stay in Tenerife has to be extended, we will use the funds to cover accommodation and food costs. I am blessed with wonderful people around me, but I am far away from their families, so part of these funds will be used to fly them to Tenerife so that we can support each other in these difficult times. Thanks again for all your donations and support, it means the world to us.

Jay, who is from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, is understood to have left the NRG music event in Tenerife in a car with two men and spent the night at an Airbnb in a rural area in the north west of the island before disappearing on Monday morning. , June 17. The last contact from the teenager was with his friend Lucy, who claims he called her the morning he disappeared, saying he was disoriented, needed water and that his phone only had a one percent charge.

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