Jay Slater’s mum issues heartbreaking statement as 19-year-old had ‘his whole life ahead of him’

Jay Slater’s mother has made a heartbreaking statement following the disappearance of her 19-year-old son.

Jay Slater was last seen leaving the whitewashed property known as Casa Abuela Tina at approximately 8am on June 17. He had enjoyed a night at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas before leaving with two Britons on his way back to the rented accommodation.

The AirBnB where Jay Slater spent his last known night is more than 20 miles and an 11-hour drive from the Los Cristianos apartment where he had been staying with his friends Lucy Law, 18, and Brad Hargreaves, 19. Jay shared a photo of himself. holding a cigarette in front of the main door of the holiday left early Monday morning.

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The Airbnb host later claimed to have seen him walking alone in the mountains on Monday. At 8:30, Jay contacted Lucy to inform her that he was lost trying to find his way home with no water and only 1% battery left on his phone. That was the last anyone heard from him, reports the Manchester Evening News.

Almost two weeks later, Jay’s ground search was called off by the police. Jay’s distraught family, including mother Debbie, father Warren and older brother Zak, remain in Tenerife assisting the police.

They describe the situation as “a mystery”, urging police to “keep her, keep her alive”.

Debbie Duncan, Jay Slater’s mother, contacted LBT Global, a charity dedicated to helping families of missing people abroad, after the search for her son in Tenerife had yet to yield any answers. In a statement released yesterday evening (July 2), she expressed her family’s distress: “My son, Jay Dean Slater, came to the holiday island of Tenerife on June 13 with his friend to attend a music festival.

“On June 17, after he did not return to his apartment, he was reported as a missing person. Jay is a normal guy who is in his 3rd year of apprenticeship and is a very popular young man with a large circle of friends.

“We are a very close family and we are absolutely devastated by his disappearance. Words cannot describe the pain and agony we are going through. He is our beautiful boy with his whole life ahead of him and we just want to find him.”

“We have no information about his whereabouts. The Guardia Civil worked tirelessly in the mountains where Jay’s last phone call was traced.

“They conducted a 12-day field search that involved every resource at their disposal. Although the search of the land has been completed, Spanish police are continuing to investigate why Jay traveled to the location so far from his accommodation.”

“We offer our sincere thanks to the Spanish authorities who are continuing to follow the lines of inquiry. We would like to tell the media/news/reporters that while we do not want to lose the momentum of Jay’s disappearance, we would very much like to maintain our confidentiality and let the police Spain to continue its investigations without hindrance from the media.

“We are aware of the conspiracy theories and speculation on social media and some websites and can only describe it as vile, negative comments are extremely upsetting to our family. We also embrace the love and support we have received from around the globe. It didn’t go unnoticed, especially his home town of Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire.

“As a family, we would like the world to respect our privacy at this time.”