By Ellie Doughty, International News Reporter
Monday July 15 marks 5 weeks since Jay Slater, a 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished in Tenerife.
The apprentice bricklayer, who flew out to the preferred holiday getaway island for a rave competition with pals Lucy Regulation and Brad Website page, has built headlines all-around the place.
On Sunday June 16 the a few of them headed off to just one of the occasions at Papagayo nightclub.
In the early hours of Monday 17 – Lucy and Brad have been all set to head back again to their hotel, but Jay wanted to retain partying.
It was then that he left the south of the island and headed to an Airbnb in the northwest with two British males.
The Sunshine uncovered the id of one particular of them – convicted drug seller Ayub Qassim, who spent nine decades behind bars in the Uk.
For times it was thought that the 2nd mystery person went by the title ‘Johnny Vegas’.
On Sunday previous detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who is out in Tenerife investigating, reported Qassim informed him he is in point the guy at the rear of the nickname ‘Johnny Vegas’.
We really don’t however know the id of the 2nd man – who remains a key aspect of the puzzle in Jay’s mysterious disappearance.
Qassim claims he drove Jay and the close friend again to their lodging and explained they all went to rest.
In the early morning he provided to drive the teenager back to the Los Cristianos resort right after a nap, but Jay, hungry and worn out, claimed he needed to leave straight away.
Lucy, the previous particular person to speak to Jay, promises she experienced a panicked contact from him shortly immediately after he still left the holiday break allow, telling her he was shed and thirsty, his phone was about to die and that he’d been slash by a cactus.
Jay experienced been seen by the operator of the Airbnb that morning wandering close to near the Rural de Teno park – a mountainous location close-by.
He is considered to have been trying the 11-hour trek back to his hotel, irrespective of the alleged supply of a raise and far more buses scheduled for the working day.
It was there that his mobile phone last pinged – and he hasn’t been viewed or heard from given that.
Mark Williams-Thomas has claimed he remaining the Airbnb swiftly, and was “scared”.
Bizarrely, Qassim says he was woken up that early morning by a cell phone phone from an unnamed mate of Jay, saying he was “in a ditch” somewhere and experienced been “cut by a cactus”.
Jay’s mate Lucy claimed to have “tracked down” the two adult males in the Airbnb immediately after he vanished – quizzing them on the morning of Jay’s disappearance.
Some studies have instructed Lucy realized the two guys, although it is not obvious how.
She has dubbed his disappearance “weird and suspicious”.
Equally guys were questioned by Spanish cops on June 17 but speedily deemed “irrelevant” to the investigation and cleared to fly again to the British isles.
Police put in practically two weeks hunting for Jay in the Tenerife mountains, scouring a 2,000ft ravine, just before calling it off on Sunday June 30.
Jay’s relatives have consistently slammed the Spanish investigation into his bizarre disappearance.
His uncle, Glen Duncan, is persuaded of “third bash involvement”.
And the teen’s devastated father, Warren Slater, claims “everything stinks”
He instructed The Solar: “My commencing position, I have explained this from working day a single, check with the two adult males who’ve taken him – and then start out from there.”
A quantity of unanswered thoughts stay, over why Jay would have travelled so much with two more mature adult men he didn’t know, why explained men would have taken him in, and why he braved the Tenerife mountains with no cellular phone battery, drinking water or heat safety for a working day-very long wander.
