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Jay Slater missing daily recap: Hunt continues for 19-year-old as mother of British teen issues direct plea to her son
By Poppy Atkinson Gibson and Cameron Roy
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Could Spanish police have found it insulting when Lancashire Constabulary offered to help?
Lancashire Constabulary said it had made 'an offer of support to the Guardia Civil to see if they need any additional resources', which was rejected by Spanish authorities.
Questioned on whether Spanish police should have accepted help from the UK force, Ms Duncan said: 'I believe they said they've got enough resources and they don't need the help from English police.
'I don't know if they find it an insult - I really don't know. I really don't know.
'They say they've got enough resources to get on with the investigation... I don't know, I don't know.'
Jay Slater's mum issues direct plea to her son
The mother of Jay Slater has issued a direct plea to her missing son on the sixth day of the hunt for the British teenager, saying: 'We just need you home.'
Debbie Duncan said she has 'not slept' since the 19-year-old disappeared on the Canary Island of Tenerife.
Asked how the family was coping with the situation, Ms Duncan told PA: 'We're not. I'm not coping very well at all.
'I've not slept, I'm exhausted. It's been awful.
'I can't give up on him, I just can't.'
Asked if her head was spinning from the past few days, she said: 'It is, it is.
'People say: 'Yeah, I understand' - no, you don't, you don't understand.'
Father and brother of Jay Slater visit Tenerife spot where crews are searching
Warren Slater and his son Zak, 24, were joined by other family and friends at the remote mountain spot where his mobile phone last pinged on Monday morning.
The remote gorge above the village of Masca, 19 miles from the party resort of Playa de les Americas at an altitude of 3000ft, has been the focus of attention all week by police.
Warren and Zak looked on as mountain rescue teams and civil protection units with high powered binoculars scanned the cactus strewn ravine looking for clues.
Friends of Jay who had flown in from Britain were also among the group and they spent several hours at the scene as search teams explained what they were doing.
Both father and son appeared to be in tears as they hugged each other at the isolated spot and Warren simply said: 'I just want the boy back.'
They also visited the Air BnB where Jay had gone after the festival with two mystery British men and from where he had sent two Snapchat messages to his friend Lucy Mae Law.
Exclusive: Revealed: Last known photograph of Jay Slater in a Tenerife nightclub before disappearance
The bombshell image is thought to have been taken at Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas in the early hours of Monday morning.
It shows Jay in the grey sport top with green shoulder edging that he was wearing when he went missing, with his friend Lucy Law alongside him.
She was the last person to speak to Jay when he called her at around 8am on Monday morning from a secluded mountain pass in Masca.
This morning it emerged that she has been questioned again at length by Spanish police separately with officers wanting to go through timings once again with her although there is no suggestion of anything untoward.
Inside the Airbnb where Jay Slater spent the night before his disappearance
Inside the Airbnb where missing teenager Jay Slater spent his final night before going missing on the island of Tenerife.
The two-bedroom property called Casa Abuela Tina costs £40 a night and was rented to two British men who have seemingly since left the island.
Set in the village of Masca about 20 miles from the party spot of Playa Americas, it has been seen as an unusual spot for a young person to holiday in.
A timeline of events as the search enters Day 6
- Sunday 16 June - Jay and friends attend the NRG music festival
- Monday 17 June - Between 03:00 and 06:00 BST he got into a car with two men he had met during the holiday
- 07:30am - He posts a picture on his Snapchat showing him at the doorway of a property in Parque Rural de Teno
- 08:30am-09:00am - Jay calls his friend and says he missed a bus and was going to walk the 11-hour journey back
- His phone's last location showing a path in the mountainous Rural de Teno
- Tuesday 18 June - Jay fails to return
- Police and rescue teams begin searching and his mother and brother board a flight
- Wednesday 19 June - Drones, dogs and a helicopter are used to search but no trace is found
- The search was briefly moved to the Los Cristianos area but it was a false sighting and the search was moved back to the original area
- Thursday 20 June - Multiple teams, friends, family and volunteers continue to search the national park but there is no sign
- Friday 21 June - The owner of a remote Airbnb says she saw Jay walking off alone in the opposite direction of the bus stop
- Saturday 22 June - There is an unconfirmed sighting of Jay looking dishevelled with two men sitting on a bench at the side of the road
A timeline of Jay Slater's movements from his partying at the NRG festival to today's unconfirmed sighting
Jay was reported missing on Monday at 9am after failing to return home after a night of partying.
Just hours before he had posted a Snapchat story with his location but was not heard from again until Monday at 8am when he phoned his friend Lucy to tell her he was lost.
Spanish police have been desperately combing through the Rural de Teno park near Masca ever since hoping to find the missing 19-year-old.
Jay's best friend Lucy Law has been questioned again by police over the Brit's disappearance
Jay's friend Lucy Law who spoke to the apprenctice bricklayer on the phone before he disappeared has been questioned again at length by Spanish police.
Officers have wanted to go through timings once again with her although there is no suggestion of anything untoward.
This follows claims that Jay's friends and family have had their accounts hacked and false information shared.
Jay's desperate mother says she hasn't slept in days as the search for him continues for a sixth day
Debie, 55, said she can't face going to the remote village in Tenerife's national park but added that Jay's father and brother are out searching with the rescue teams.
She said: 'My energy levels are just zero, I am going through every emotion, screaming, crying, I've just not slept for days.
She explained that the worry is taking a physical and mental toll on her health and told MailOnline that she's staying away from social media.
'I've seen some things on social media but now I'm staying off that, I'm just shattered, I'm so exhausted, I'm slumped her in a chair absolutely drained, I fainted as well earlier.' she said.
Missing Brit spotted with two men looking 'a bit worse for wear' as Spanish police continue to search ravine
Jay's mother Debbie has revealed a new sighting of her missing son.
A member of the public has told police that they saw Jay with two men 'looking a bit worse for wear' near a church.
The sighting was at around 6pm, ten hours after he was last seen by seen Ophelia Medina Hernandez.
The last confirmed sighting of the apprentice bricklayer was at 8.15am on Monday when a woman saw him walking through the village of Masca, 19 miles from the party resort of Playa de las Americas.
Ophelia Medina Hernandez, the last person to see Jay, told The Times: 'People don't get lost here.'
She saw him next to a bus stop, adding: 'He was walking normally but a bit quickly.'
Worried mother of missing Brit vows to stay in Tenerife for 'as long as it takes'
Jay's worried mother Debbie has vowed to remain in Tenerife until she has answers.
She told mailOnline: 'All I know is that I am going to stay here for as long as it takes, I'm not going home unless it's with Jay. I'm not going anywhere until they find him.'
Just two days ago Debbie made a tearful plea for her son to come home.
The worried mother, 55, has not heard from Jay since he left a rave party on the Spanish island of Tenerife and went off with two British men to their isolated Air BnB apartment an hour away.
Jay Slater's mother reveals new sighting in hunt for missing 19-year-old
The mother of missing Jay Slater has revealed there has been a new sighting of her son.
Debbie, 55, told MailOnline: 'Someone has come forward to say they saw someone who they thought was Jay walking back down the road sat on a bench.
'He was with two men looking a bit worse for wear, and they were by a church, this guy has come forward and told the police about it and they are looking into it. We don't know if it was Jay for sure, but it's a start.
'They said it was about 6pm which is ten hours after he was seen by the lady in the village. But if it was him what was he doing there and who are these two men?
Read more here:
Mother of missing teenager says the search has been 'stepped up'
The mother of Jay Slater, 19, has said that Spanish police have intensified the search for her missing son.
Debbie Duncan, who flew out to Tenerife on Tuesday, said she spent eight hours with police yesterday as thye outlined detaile dsearch plans with maps.
She told The Guardian that she feels the operation has been 'stepped up'.
Who were the two men Jay Slater went drinking with? Why did it take 18 hours to alert his mother? And why did he choose an 11-hour walk over waiting for a bus? The unanswered questions in search for missing Brit teen - as hunt enters day six
MailOnline has pieced together the last few hours before he disappeared and asked five key questions that have left police and his family stumped.
Read more here:
No updates from the Facebook page called Jay Slater Missing following a social media frenzy
There have been no updates from the Facebook page dedicated to Jay following the social media frenzy over the past few days.
The admin, Rach Louise Harg, has turned of commenting and limited new posts.
This comes after almost half a million members joined the page and the official group became overwhelmed with conspiracy theories.
Ms Harg posted yesterday that they were not posting anything unless it was important and added that it had all gone too far as she apologised to those who were genuinly concerned.
RECAP: What do we know so far?
- Spanish police have been focusing their search efforts on the a 2,000ft-deep ravine in a the remote Teno Nature Reserve referred to as 'malpais' by locals
- The force declined an offer from Lancashire police to send support to help find the missing teen
- The apprentice bricklayer's Instagram account has been active but Jay's family and friends say it isn't him
- Lucy, who was with Jay the evening before he went missing, believes her friend has been kidnapped and beleives 'something weird' and 'suspicious' has happened
- Jay Slater's mother is also worried he has been taken 'against his will'
- The missing teenager posted a final picture at 7.30am on Snapchat from the house of 'two English lads' an hour before phoning his friend
- Police said they are keeping an 'open mind' about Jay's disappearance
- Police searched Jay's hotel room in the tourist resort of Los Cristianos
- Jay's best friend has criticised local authorities for their efforts
- Masca in Tenerife is a famously remote and treacherous place, locals told The Mirror.
Search efforts continue but the police presence is smaller photos show
Guardia Civil officers near to the village of Masca, Tenerife continue the search today although photos show a smaller police presence.
This comes as Jay's friend Lucy Mae slammed Spanish police for 'not doing a good enough job' in finding the missing Brit.
The 18-year-old told The Times: 'We were driving around the island for 12 hours. We have been everywhere you can imagine, up and down the mountain several times and searching spots that he might have sheltered in.
'We are having to do this all by ourselves as Spanish police are not doing a good enough job. They don’t even speak English. It’s been a very slow process here so we need the British police to come out and help them.'
However, offers of help from Lancashire police have been rejected by Spanish cops.
Police searching a 'rugged and disorientating landscape' where the missing Brit was last seen
Mountain rescue crews and sniffer dogs had been searching the mountainous area of south Tenerife for the 19-year-old.
The area which is sparsley populated and remote can reach temperatures of up to 28 degrees Celcius in the day but drop to 10 to 12 degrees Celcius at night.
The teenager was walking back from a remote Airbnb, around a 40 minute drive away from his accomodation when his phone died.
Andrew Knight, known on YouTube as the Knightrider, told The Independent that the area where Jay was last seen is a rugged and 'disorientating landscape' with extremes of weather.
Official GoFundMe page for Jay Slater reaches £25k after friends sets up fundraiser for missing teen that vanished on Tenerife island 6 days ago
The funraiser which was set up by Jay's friend Lucy Mae Law to help with search efforts and has now raised more than £25,000.
Lucy, who had gone on the holiday to Tenerife with the 19-year-old, was the last person to hear from the 19-year-old.
Jay was last heard from at 8.50am on Monday when he messaged Lucy to say he was 19 miles away at an apartment in Masca, north west Tenerife and trying to make his way home but his phone battery was on one per cent and he had no water.
Jay Slater's last known movements
A map shows the apprentice bricklayer's last known movements.
His phone shows his last location as the mountainous Rural Teno Park, which is a remote area in the northwest of Tenerife.
The apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from on Monday after an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus.
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A 'mystery person' logs into Jay's Instagram account
A 'mystery person' has been logging into Jay's Instagram account as search teams scour deep ravines.
His worried friends said on behalf of his mother Debbie that an unknown person is using his Instagram as it's been frequently active, but it isn't Jay.
The admin of the Facebook page called Jay Slater Missing, Rachel Louise Harg, wrote: 'Some people are actually this sick in the head, there are people hacking my accounts and Jay's family's, making it pure lies and pretending we are all in it.'
She said Debbie is 'broken' and slammed the mystery person using the account as 'cruel'.
Police scour ravines in bid to find the missing apprentice bricklayer
The Jay Slater search team is scouring a 2,000ft-deep ravine in a bid to find the missing 19-year-old.
Police are now searching a ravine in the remote, desert-like Teno Nature Reserve in an area referred to as 'malpais' by locals — a word that translates into English as 'bad land' according to The Sun
Spanish police yesterday searched a secluded mountain pass in Masca which is the last known location of the 19-year-old after he made a phone call to his friend Lucy, 18, at around 8am that morning.
British police offer to help hunt for missing teenager, 19, but Spanish cops decline as new images show officers searching mountain with drones and sniffer dogs
British police have offered to help in the hunt for missing teenager Jay Slater but their offer has been declined by Spanish counterparts.
Spanish police are scouring a secluded mountain pass in Masca which is the last known location of the 19-year-old after he made a phone call to his friend Lucy, 18, at around 8am that morning.
The force has now declined an offer from Lancashire police to send support to help find the missing teen, saying that they had the resources they needed.
Read the latest by report Nick Pisa on the ground in Tenerife here:
Welcome to MailOnline's Jay Slater liveblog as the search enters its fifth day
Good morning, and welcome to MailOnline's latest Jay Slater missing liveblog.
The search has now entered its sixth day as police continue to sarch for the teenager, 19, who disappeared in Tenerife.
Friends and family members have flown over to the Canary Islands to join the search for Jay who has not been seen or heard from since Monday.
His last known location was in the mountainous area of Teno Rural Park, some 10 hours' walk away from his accommodation in the southern part of the island.
The GoFundMe has raised £25,479 as of this morning.
- Mother of missing teenager says the search has been 'stepped up'
- Police scour ravines in bid to find the missing apprentice bricklayer
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