THE Household of lacking Brit teen Jay Slater have discovered fears of “third bash” involvement immediately after going nearly three weeks with no responses.
Jay’s fatigued uncle, Glen Duncan, told The Sun in Tenerife today that he is now convinced other individuals had been included in his nephew’s disappearance.
Jay’s mate Lucy Law statements he called her shortly right before 9am on June 17 to notify her that he was “lost in the middle of nowhere”, determined for a drink and experienced a person per cent battery left on his phone.
Glen explained to The Sunshine: “I have been considering third bash involvement from the commence.
“You will find just some things that have now been out there.”
In a bombshell claim, Glen said these days he was “baffled” by the police conclusion to rule out two men who Jay used the evening with at a £40-a-night Airbnb just before he vanished.
Spanish cops have spoken to each gentlemen previously and cleared them to return to the British isles, dubbing them “irrelevant” to the investigation.
But there have been calls for law enforcement to speak to them all over again amid the ongoing secret of Jay’s disappearance.
The Sunshine discovered 1 of the secret adult men, Ayub Qassim, who insists he has nothing at all to disguise – but the second known only as ‘Jonny Vegas’ has not appear forward.
They drove Jay to the remote cottage in the mountains, high above the colourful strip of Tenerife’s club scene, soon after conference him at a music pageant.
Glen now believes the adult men – which includes convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim, 31 – could assistance discover the missing teenager.
Jay’s concerned uncle joined the teen’s dad Warren and his brother Zak together with seven other volunteers right now to retrace his last ways.
They expended hrs in the unforgiving 25C heat trekking by mountainous terrain in the hope of getting a breakthrough.
Glen said: “Why would two lads use a villa up right here? They are down on the strip, you know what it is like down there.
“There is certainly thousands and thousands of residences and accommodations down there in Los Cristianos and Las Americas.”
He additional: “It really is so treacherous up listed here. Search at the condition of me. I am not a climber, I am not a hiker.
“It truly is so easy to get missing down there. There was a team of us and you are unable to see any one.
“It acquired to a stage exactly where I was not even hunting for my nephew, I was just hoping to discover my individual way out to safety.
“I you should not know if he was fearful of another person or some thing.”
Previous detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who has flown out to Tenerife to support, claimed he thinks Jay was “worried” as he left the Airbnb on the early morning he disappeared.
Qassim flew back to his home in Barking, east London, just times following Jay vanished but insists he experienced no component to play in his disappearance.
He claimed Jay arrived at the remote cottage in Masca alive and remaining the subsequent morning alive.
But Glen insisted: “The point Qassim has occur out and reported all his [Jay’s] mates left him and he had nowhere to go – he was 10 minutes from his apartment in Los Cristianos.
“He’s not stupid. If he failed to have a home important he could have absent to reception for a substitute.
“I really don’t know what the police are getting critically. I never know if they are adhering to up each and every solitary lead.
“I sense like marching down there myself and bursting into the law enforcement station.
“What are they truly accomplishing now, the law enforcement, I imply they are not seeking with the helicopter are they?
“Are they executing doorway to doorway inquiries or sitting down there hunting at CCTV photos?
“Who appreciates what the law enforcement are doing out in this article, who understands? They’re not truly in touch, it is all a little bit sketchy. They don’t give nearly anything away.”
Glen claimed he was “seriously close” to Jay and explained him as “a terrific young lad with a significant circle of close friends who liked the great time”.
He explained: “He was hunting forward to coming in this article.
“To start with lads getaway and we’ve all been there, have not we.
“I will not know how extensive we’re likely to be out listed here for. How long’s a piece of string?
“Debbie and Warren will never be heading everywhere.”
Glen also manufactured an psychological comparison to the never ever-solved disappearance of Madeleine McCann these days.
He said: “He is not been discovered so you have acquired to cling on.
“I am certain Madeleine McCann’s mothers and fathers still cling onto that hope, that she’s somewhere on the other facet of the earth 20 yrs afterwards.
“She’s by no means been located and there’s no evidence of whatever has happened to her.”
Jay’s devastated uncle vowed: “We’re nevertheless holding onto hope – we have to because we will not know.
“It is really just torture each individual day. It’s received to a place now exactly where the disappointment has gone and it is just anger.”