Jay Slater searcher makes unpleasant admission on This Morning after flying to find missing teen
28.06.2024 - 09:55
/ ok.co.uk
A TikTok star who flew to Tenerife to hunt for missing Jay Slater made an unpleasant admission about his quest on This Morning. Paul Arnott, who operates the popular Down the Rapids page with over 153k followers, joined in the search for the missing 19 year old and was interviewed by the telly show's crime reporter, Isla Traquair, on Thursday, 27 June.
Isla, who had also arrived on the Spanish island, was seen retracing the steps the apprentice bricklayer is known to have taken when he vanished on June 17, after staying in an Airbnb in a remote village following a three-day music festival. Isla's report to Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard in the studio included footage of the accommodation where Jay was last seen, as well as the hillside road he is thought to have walked along after deciding not to wait for a bus on the morning he went missing.
As Isla chatted to Paul on the hillside road, he detailed his shocking view on Jay's fate – that there was little chance of him being found alive. "It's not a nice thing to think of, but if he was in this environment and it wasn't something else that happened, then the likelihood of him still being alive in this area – slim," Paul explained, continuing: "If he had no survival experience – slim." This isn't Paul's first time helping in a search mission – the amateur mountaineer recently took part in looking for Tom and Richie Parry, a father-son duo who tragically were found deceased after disappearing in the Scottish Highlands last month.
This Morning's bosses' decision to send Isla to Tenerife has sparked controversy among viewers, as only a day earlier she had rebuked amateur detectives who had flown there to take part in the investigation. Before vanishing into thin air,
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