Published by Robert L Senior Reporter on Wednesday, 26th May 2024, at 17:00hrs
An ex-detective who worked on some of the UK’s biggest cases, such as Jimmy Saville, Madeleine MCcann, and Nicola Bulley, has been offering his professional expertise to the family of missing Jay Slater after flying out to Tenerife in a bid to find answers for the family.
19-year-old Jay Slater from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire has been missing on the island since Monday 17th June after going off with two British men who drove him to an apartment in the North of Tenerife after attending the NRG music festival.
Jay made a call to his friend on Monday morning (17th June) to say he had missed his bus, was in the middle of nowhere with no water and only one percent left on his phone battery and had cut his leg on a cactus, his accommodation that he set off to walk back to was reported to have been an eleven hour walk.
His last known location was pinged in the Rural De Teno Park area.
A large search operation has been underway ever since with specialist search dogs from Madrid recently called in to help with the search.
Emotional family appeals from Jay’s Mother Debbie, brother Zac, and father Warren have been given to the media, but despite this, there has been no sign of Jay.
Speaking to the media this afternoon, Mark Williams-Thomas said,
“Since I’ve been here, I’ve worked with the family. I spent yesterday with them and the night before, they are a very, very united family.
They are very supportive, and their one mission is, of course, to find out what happened to Jay. They still live with the hope that Jay will return and that he is not safe but still alive.
I’ve come over here to investigate, they have sat with me and provided me with an in depth insight as to what has happened in the hours leading up to Jay’s disappearance.
I have today been able to speak to a large number of witnesses who were with him or came across him during that period of time, and they have all been helpful. They are two key people to date I have not spoken to and these are the two men that took Jay back to that holiday rental in the hills.
Those two men have spoken to the police but they are now back in England.”
Mark William-Thomas went on to say,
“They are people out here that know more, they are people out here that have information, who have seen Jay and have had contact with Jay, if you were in that club in the evening or early hours of that morning please come forward and tell us.”
He finished the interview off by saying that he’s received lots of information and he is in no doubt that there is an underworld here, there is an undercurrent here and a there is a big drugs fraternity.
He couldn’t say at this time if that had an impact on this case. However, with the information he has gathered thus far that this was a line of enquiry.
It comes after the Spanish authorities were made aware of Jay’s previous criminal past and that they were looking into whether this had any links to Jay’s disappearance.
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