Tenerife police are reportedly investigating a fresh lead in the puzzling case of missing British teenager Jay Slater.
23.06.2024 - 19:51 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
An experienced investigator and former police officer has said he could get Jay Slater's family answers 'in three days' as he offered to fly out to Tenerife urgently.
TV investigator and author Mark Williams-Thomas announced that he had reached out to Jay's mum Debbie Duncan to 'get her answers as to what happened' to him, after the 19-year-old was reported missing on the Spanish island on Monday (June 17).
Jay, from Lancashire, is thought to have phoned his friend Lucy to tell her he was lost in a rural area and that his phone battery was down to just one percent. His phone then later 'pinged' in an open area around half a mile north of the Masca village.
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Emergency workers, including the Civil Guard, mountain rescue team and fire crews, are continuing in their search of a 30-kilometre area in the Rural de Teno park, which involves steep and 'treacherous' mountains and ravines. Members of the search and rescue teams previously told the Manchester Evening News why the vast landscape is proving so challenging to search.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Mark, who investigated the disappearance of Nicola Bulley and revealed that former television host and radio personality Savile was a prolific paedophile in his award-winning film in October 2012, revealed he has offered to fly out to the island to 'find out whether a third party was involved'.
He also vowed to 'track down' the two men, who are thought to be British, that Jay is said to have stayed with in the Airbnb rental the night before he vanished. He offered his assistance to the family for free and says he has reached out to them.
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Tenerife police are reportedly investigating a fresh lead in the puzzling case of missing British teenager Jay Slater.
A top detective who helped expose Jimmy Savile says he is trying to track down the two mysterious men last seen with missing teenager Jay Slater, revealing crucial new leads in the case.
This Morning has been slammed by viewers after one of its stars flew to Tenerife to join the search for missing British teen Jay Slater. Crime journalist Isla Traquair, a regular on the daytime telly show, was seen on Thursday, 27 June, reporting live from the spot near where Jay, 19, went missing 13 days ago on the Spanish island. On Wednesday's show, Isla had suggested that Jay could have taken a shortcut through hilly undergrowth in an attempt to navigate his way home from a winding mountain road more swiftly.
A This Morning star has jetted to Tenerife to join the search for missing British teen Jay Slater. Award-winning crime journalist Isla Traquair, a regular on the daytime telly show, was seen on Thursday, 27 June, reporting live from the spot near where Jay, 19, went missing 13 days ago on the Spanish island. Isla's report to Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard in the studio included footage of the Airbnb where apprentice bricklayer Jay was last seen, as well as the road he is thought to have walked along after deciding not to wait for a bus on the morning he went missing.
This Morning came under fire over its coverage of missing British teen Jay Slater, who disappeared 12 days ago on the Spanish island of Tenerife.The popular ITV show focused its attention on the 'armchair detective' theories surrounding 19 year old apprentice bricklayer Jay's disappearance on Wednesday's show, 26 June, and how speculation was potentially damaging for the ongoing police investigation, not to mention distressing for Jay's family. It followed reports that Tenerife locals had 'spotted' Jay, who's from Oswaldtwistle, watching the Euros matches – after the mayor of a nearby town made the claims.
Brand new footage released by police shows helicopters circling 'treacherous' mountains and sniffer dogs scouring the area where British teenager Jay Slater disappeared.
The frantic search to locate missing teen Jay Slater in Tenerife is continuing in its second week, with rescue teams still searching the mountains in the north west of the island.
An experienced TV investigator has said he will 'build a clear timeline' of the 24 hours before teenager Jay Slater disappeared in Tenerife.
The gruelling search to locate missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife is continuing in its second week, with rescue teams still searching the mountains in the north west of the island.
Police searching for the British teenager Jay Slater have found a different missing person as the search for the 19-year-old enters its second week.
Bar staff working in the resort where Jay Slater partied the night before he vanished in Tenerife have been left devastated and saying its 'all they're talking about'.
Employees at the bar where Jay Slater partied the night before he disappeared have been left devastated after he vanished without a trace.
Nestled in the mountainous landscape of north west Tenerife, sits the quaint village of Masca. The tiny village, home to only around 90 inhabitants, boasts an amazing vantage point for views of the surrounding peaks and the North Atlantic Ocean.
Sky News.During the short phone call, he said he had missed a bus trying to get back to his holiday accommodation so was attempting to walk instead – a journey that takes 11 hours.Urgent searches, involving Civil Guard officers, firefighters and mountain rescuers, have been ongoing in the vast area since his disappearance.Explainer | Search continues for British teen one week after he went missing in Tenerife.
A possible new sighting of Jay Slater in Tenerife has been shared by the missing teenager's heartbroken family. The grainy CCTV image is understood to be from Santiago del Teide at about 6pm last Monday, June 17 - ten hours after his last confirmed appearance in Masca on the island.
An ex-cop who investigated Nicola Bulley's disappearance has vowed to get answers over Jay Slater's whereabouts 'in three days'.
The family and friends of a British teenager who is missing in Tenerife have shared a picture of a 'possible sighting' of the teenager as the desperate search to find him goes on.
New helicopter footage has revealed search teams continuing in their rescue mission to find missing British teenager Jay Slater.
A firefighter involved in the search for Jay Slater in Tenerife has described the situation as "increasingly strange".
Spanish police have rejected an offer of support from Lancashire Constabulary as the desperate hunt for a British teenager in Tenerife goes on.