The Civil Guard continues searching by all means in Tenerife to Jay Slaterthe 19-year-old British man who was staying with two friends in Los Cristianos and disappeared last Monday, June 17, in the town of Masca, after travelling there with two other young men he met on the island. The young man’s trail vanished at around 08:15 hours on that date, when he called his friend Lucy by phone, assuring her that he was lost in the mountains, that he was not aware of his surroundings, that he needed water and that his phone was at 1%. The last signal from his device was geolocated in the Teno Rural Park.
It’s already been 11 days of searching no sign of Jay. This Thursday, the Civil Guard agentswho have the support of other security forces, in addition to specialized search dogs from Madrid, have focused their work on a new area of the Masca valley, specifically in the Los Carrizales cavesaccording to British media.
The young man’s parents, Debbie Duncan and Warren Slater, 58, and his brother Zak Slater, 24, travelled to Tenerife from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England, to help with the search. family is at a “breaking point” in the absence of news about Jay’s whereabouts as the days go by. And the investigations are being complicated. There is concrete data, but also There is information that has not been corroborated. The mayor of Santiago del Teide, Emilio José Navarro Castañedo, noted this Wednesday that some neighbors claim to have seen the British man watching the Euro Cup in a bar in Puerto de Santiago. Furthermore, in the town of Santiago del Teide itself, an image was recorded in which the boy supposedly appeared walking around 6:00 p.m. on Monday.
Jay Dean Slater, the 19-year-old British man who disappeared in TenerifeNews telecinco
Timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance in Tenerife
This is the chronology of the disappearance of Jay Slater in Tenerife:
Sunday, June 16, 8:00 p.m.: Jay attends a festival at the Papagayo Beach Club, in Playa de las Américas, a municipality near Los Cristianos, a town where he stays in a hotel with his friend Lucy and another friend.
Monday, June 17, 01:00 hours. The young man appears on social networks at the festival, with sunglasses on his head and a gray sports shirt. In the images he appears with Lucy, and in a TikTok he appears dancing around that time.
Monday, June 17, 07:30 a.m.: Jay’s last photo on Snapchat places him in Masca, near the Teno Rural Park, an area where there is hardly any partying, a hiking area, where he would have gone to a rental home (Airbnb) with two British men, whom he may have met during the early hours of the festival and they would have since left the island. Until now they have not been interrogated.
Map of Jay Slater’s disappearance: from Los Cristianos to MascaGoogle / Telecinco News
Monday, June 17, 08:30 hours: Jay calls his friend Lucy. He claims that he is lost in the mountains, that he is not aware of his surroundings, that he needs water and that his phone is at 1%. The owner of the Airbnb in Masca, Ofelia Medina Herández, according to ‘Diario de Avisos’, saw him walking quickly around that time. The environment highlights that the British man was not wearing a coat for the cold, nor clothing suitable for staying in high-altitude rocky areas.
Monday, June 17, 08:45 – 08:50 am: Jay’s phone goes off. The last recorded location is near the Teno Rural Park (about 10 hours walk from Los Cristianos).
Disappearance of Jay Slater in MascaGoogle / Telecinco News
Monday, June 17, 09:30 hours: The authorities received a notice about the disappearance. Since then, the search operation has been launched, after seeing that the young man has not appeared. According to Informativos Telecinco, the Civil Guard has asked the National Police for collaboration to check if Jay is at the hotel in Los Cristianos. The officers verify that he is not there and are informed that his mother is travelling to Tenerife.
Monday, June 17, 6:00 p.m.: An image is recorded in which Jay supposedly appears walking in Santiago del Teide. Information also appears in other municipalities about sightings. However, no testimony from neighbors about these sightings (presumably also in Puerto de Santiago) has been confirmed as truthful.
Jay Slater disappears in TenerifeGoogle / Telecinco News
Tuesday June 18: Specialized search teams with sniffer dogs travel to Tenerife from Madrid.
Thursday June 27:After 11 days of searching, there are no clues to clarify the disappearance of the bricklayer’s apprentice. The agents focus their attention on the caves of Los Carrizales, near Masca. All hypotheses are open.
Joaquín Amills: “Everything now depends on the investigation of the Judicial Police”
From that Monday, June 17, to this Thursday, the 27th, the authorities have kept the search operation in force throughout Tenerife. After 11 days of searches and searches, no clue has yet been found that can clarify what happened to the young man. According to ‘Daily Mail’, some Britons who are on the island and who know the area well believe that the young man, after a night of partying, began walking through the mountains and found himself in a difficult situation to resolve. Likewise, several Experts believe it is unlikely that he walked from Masca to Santiago del Teidesince he would have been seen on the road. And they consider it unlikely that, after his disappearance, he could have been seen in another municipality such as Puerto de Santiago.
From SOS Missing Persons They launched a search alert on social networks to try to find him as soon as possible. As its president explained, Joaquin Amillsto Informativos Telecinco this Thursday, “there are few indications” about the events: “There has been no sighting, there is no precise information. We must know all the circumstances. Everything now depends on the investigation of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard“. There are currently no solid leads on Jay, who has a criminal record for an incident when he was 16. Lucy, his friend, created a GoFundMe page to raise funds and help with the search. It was started with a target of £30,000 and has now raised more than £38,000. Relatives have hired a detective team who carry out investigations personally.
