The mother of missing British teenager Jay Slater claims she has received a sick snapchat message from trolls reading: ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.’
The hunt for the missing teenager is entering its fourth day on the island of Tenerife after he disappeared on Monday morning after attending the NRG music festival the following night.
Following the festival, Jay left the location and travelled to a property in a car in a national park about 40 minutes drive away with two men before leaving shortly before 7am.
Debbie Duncan, the mother of the apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, has now claimed that her son ‘isn’t stupid’ and that she is now working off the assumption he has been kidnapped.
Debbie Duncan, the mother of the apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, has now claimed that her son ‘isn’t stupid’ and that she is now working off the assumption he has been kidnapped. They are pictured together above
Jay Slater, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, travelled to the Canary Islands for a festival
She explained: ‘I’ve got a bad feeling. I’m being warned there’s a lot of bad people in Tenerife. I just think he’s being held against his will. He’s not a stupid lad. He wouldn’t have gone walking down bloody mountains.
‘There’s no ransom demand come in yet. I’ve told them [police] my suspicions, that I think Jay’s been taken up north by people against his will.’
A friend has since shed more light on Jay’s final moments leading up to his disappearance.
Lucy Mae, who was with Jay at the festival, was the last person to speak to Jay and reported him missing on Monday morning.
The teenager, who was on his first holiday with friends, is believed to have got into a car with two men in the early hours of Monday and ended up at their accommodation in a national park about 40 minutes drive away.
Social media posts from the night before show Jay smiling in a grey t-shirt with green patches on the shoulders and in his last social media post, he shared an out of focus photo of a hand holding a cigarette at 7.30am at the property where he travelled to with the two men.
Panic erupted when, at around 8.50am, a disoriented Jay called his friend Lucy Mae as he tried to walk back to Playa de las Americas but was thirsty, lost and only had one per cent battery on his phone.
At 2:30am on Tuesday morning, Jay’s mother Debbie was alerted to his disappearance
Jay is seen in this image shared to his friend Lucy’s social media days before he disappeared
Pictured are drones in the sky searching for Jay yesterday
Jay was reported missing on Sunday morning by friend Lucy Mae
The call cut out and the teenager has not been seen or heard from since, but his last known location was in the remote Rural de Teno Park, a 10-hour walk from where he was staying.
Speaking to media, Lucy claimed that Jay had told her needed a drink, didn’t know where he was and had ‘cut his leg on a cactus.’
A panicked Lucy set off to search the area where Jay had last been seen and managed to locate the house where Jay due to an image he had shared online.
She said: ‘We managed to find the house. I knocked on the door and there were two people there.
‘They told me he’d spoken to the next door neighbours and they’d told him there was a bus every 10 minutes back down to Los Cristianos.
‘The bus stop was right next to the house. So obviously if he’d gone to get the bus he wouldn’t have got lost because it [the stop] was visible from the front door.’
At 2:30am on Tuesday morning, Jay’s mother Debbie and step-dad Andy Watson, 63, were alerted to his disappearance when police officers knock on their door in the early hours of the morning.
The officers advised that the best thing they could do was to get ‘yourself out there’.
A screenshot of Jay’s last known location where his phone battery died
Police were checking vans yesterday to try and find the teenager
A MailOnline graphic detailing the timeline of events from when Jay attended the three-day NRG festival to his location when his phone died at around 8.50am on Monday
Whilst police, sniffer dogs and helicopters comb the mountains of the island, Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan and father Warren fly to Tenerife with other relatives and friends to join the search.
Yesterday, concern for Jay’s wellbeing deepens spurred on by a false sighting and several malicious communications sent to his distraught mother.
Ms Duncan says twisted Brits with ‘northern accents’ had been phoning her with hidden numbers and claiming they had her son captive and were keeping him because he owed them money.
She said: ‘Some of the phone calls I’ve been getting have been horrible. I just don’t know why people would want to do things like this.
‘I’ve been getting lots of prank calls. It’s sickening. People ringing me and saying they’ve got Jay because he owes them money.
‘But it’s not putting me off and I want to keep this in the news because it’s going to increase the chances of Jay being found safe and well which is obviously what we’re praying for.’
Missing Jay posted a final picture at 7.30am on Snapchat from the house of ‘two English lads’ an hour before phoning his friend Lucy
Officers had re-focused their efforts on the tourist resorts of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas after receiving reports of an alleged sighting of the teen.
Responding to the misleading report of Jay being sighted on the opposite side of the island, Lucy said: ‘Someone has given a false lead to the police saying he’s rang a taxi down to Los Cristianos.
‘If this was the case he would have rang his mum or one of us. I know him well and he would not have us worrying.
‘Someone is trying to deter the police from him being up there. I’m starting to think he’s been kidnapped.’
Police and emergency services continue their search, combing the mountain with drones and sniffer dogs and reportedly stopping motorists in the area.