By Ellie Doughty, Overseas News Reporter
Monday July 8 marks 3 months considering the fact that Jay Slater, a 19-calendar year-aged from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished in Tenerife.
The apprentice bricklayer, who flew out to the popular holiday getaway island for a rave competition with pals Lucy Legislation and Brad Web page, has built headlines all-around the state.
On Sunday June 16 the three of them headed off to one of the activities at Papagayo nightclub.
In the early hrs of Monday 17 – Lucy and Brad ended up all set to head again to their hotel, but Jay preferred to maintain partying.
It was then that he left the south of the island and headed to an Airbnb in the northwest with two British adult men.
The Sunlight revealed the identification of a single of them – convicted drug vendor Ayub Qassim, who put in nine decades behind bars in the Uk.
For days it was assumed that the second thriller gentleman went by the name ‘Johnny Vegas’.
On Sunday former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who is out in Tenerife investigating, stated Qassim advised him he is in reality the gentleman driving the nickname ‘Johnny Vegas’.
We do not still know the id of the next man – who stays a key portion of the puzzle in Jay’s mysterious disappearance.
Qassim claims he drove Jay and the good friend back to their lodging and stated they all went to sleep.
In the morning he made available to push the teenager back again to the Los Cristianos vacation resort following a nap, but Jay, hungry and worn out, said he required to go away straight away.
Lucy, the past man or woman to converse to Jay, statements she had a panicked contact from him shortly right after he remaining the holiday allow, telling her he was shed and thirsty, his cellular phone was about to die and that he’d been lower by a cactus.
Jay experienced been viewed by the owner of the Airbnb that morning wandering close to in close proximity to the Rural de Teno park – a mountainous location close-by.
He is thought to have been making an attempt the 11-hour trek back again to his lodge, even with the alleged supply of a raise and additional buses scheduled for the day.
It was there that his telephone final pinged – and he has not been viewed or listened to from because.
Mark Williams-Thomas has claimed he remaining the Airbnb quickly, and was “scared”.
Bizarrely, Qassim suggests he was woken up that early morning by a cellphone connect with from an unnamed pal of Jay, indicating he was “in a ditch” someplace and experienced been “cut by a cactus”.
Jay’s buddy Lucy claimed to have “tracked down” the two adult men in the Airbnb soon after he vanished – quizzing them on the early morning of Jay’s disappearance.
Some studies have prompt Lucy knew the two adult men, despite the fact that it is not distinct how.
She has dubbed his disappearance “weird and suspicious”.
Each males ended up questioned by Spanish cops on June 17 but speedily considered “irrelevant” to the investigation and cleared to fly back again to the British isles.
Police invested just about two months looking for Jay in the Tenerife mountains, scouring a 2,000ft ravine, just before calling it off on Sunday June 30.
Jay’s loved ones have continuously slammed the Spanish investigation into his weird disappearance.
His uncle, Glen Duncan, is persuaded of “third party involvement”.
And the teen’s devastated dad, Warren Slater, suggests “everything stinks”
He explained to The Sun: “My commencing place, I have stated this from day just one, inquire the two men who’ve taken him – and then start off from there.”
A variety of unanswered concerns continue to be, over why Jay would have travelled so considerably with two older males he didn’t know, why claimed adult males would have taken him in, and why he braved the Tenerife mountains with no cell phone battery, water or warmth safety for a day-extended stroll.
