JAYA Slater’s devastated mother has revealed a major breakthrough in the search for the missing teenager.
Debbie Duncan, speaking from Tenerife, said her son may have been seen with the two men about 10 hours after he was last seen on Monday morning.
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Jay Slater, 19, is still missing in Tenerife
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Jay Slater (right) pictured with his brother Zak and mum Debbie – who both flew to the island after he went missing
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The search for the missing Jay enters its sixth day today – officers are searching remote parks in the north of Tenerife
Debbie told Mail Online: “Someone called to say they saw someone they thought was Jay walking back down the street and sitting on a bench.
“He was with two men who looked a little worse for wear, they were by the church, this guy called and told the police about it and they are investigating.
“We don’t know if it was Jay for sure, but it’s a start.”
Debbie, 55, has been in Tenerife since Tuesday helping with a major police search for her 19-year-old son.
She revealed that the new sighting showed Jay’s possible movements by 6pm on Monday – 9 hours after his missing person’s report was filed.
The worried mum said: “They said it was around 6pm, which is ten hours after the lady in the village saw him.
He was with two men who looked a little worse for wear, and they were next to the church, this guy came forward and told the police about it and they are looking into it
Debbie Duncan, Jay’s mom
“But if it was him, what was he doing there and who are these two men?”
She added: “All I know is I’m going to stay here as long as it takes, I’m not going home unless it’s with Jay. I’m not going anywhere until they find him.”
The police have yet to confirm a new sighting of the missing teenager.
It came after rescue efforts focused on an area known locally as “the wastelands”, searching a 2,000-foot cliff in a remote park.
It comes as…
Pictures from the scene show police, firefighters, volunteers and sniffer dogs scanning the desolate Teno Nature Reserve, Jay’s last known location.
Locals and experts have warned of dangerous conditions in the area – where the air is “thin”, temperatures change rapidly and mountains drop precipitously to the water below.
At around 8am on Monday morning, Jay frantically called friend Lucy Law to tell her he was stranded in the “middle of nowhere”.
He said he had cut his leg on a cactus, was thirsty and was about to make the 11-hour journey home.
The panicked phone call was the last anyone heard of Jay.
A missing person’s report was filed around 9 a.m. that morning – triggering a day-long search.
The Lancashire teenager was last seen by the owner of the AirBnB he was staying at on Sunday night.
Ophelia, the owner of the Casa Abuela Tina holiday apartment – where he spent the night – said she saw him leaving on his own hill in the vast mountain area near Masca.
Ophelia told MEN: “It’s dangerous to walk around, it’s easy to get lost. He was walking down the road when I last saw him.
“He was alone. He walked normally, though he was fast.”
It is understood the Airbnb was rented out by two men Jay returned with after the closing night of the NRG festival on Sunday.
Timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance
Ellie Doughty, foreign news reporter
SUNDAY, JUNE 16 – MONDAY, JUNE 17
Jay is going to rave at the 2024 NRG music festival in Tenerife, around Arona in the south of the island
20.35 – Jay posts a smiling Snapchat video of himself laughing with friends
He leaves the rave with two men he met that day and is taken back to their accommodation on the other side of the island
MONDAY 17
7.30am – Jay posts a Snapchat of his hand holding a cigarette in the area where he was staying – near Rural Park de Teno in the north of the island
8.30am – Jay calls his friend Lucy Law and tells her he’s missed the bus, has 1% battery left on his phone and is stuck in the “middle of nowhere”.
9am – A missing persons report is filed and the search for Jay begins
TUESDAY 18
2am – The police knock on the door of Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan’s home and tell her to catch the first flight to Tenerife
7am – She flies from Manchester Airport along with her son Zak to help with the search
Debbie was sent a Snapchat message that read: “Kiss your boy goodbye, you’ll never see him again, he owes me a lot of money.”
WEDNESDAY 19
12:30 – After a false sighting, the police briefly move the search to the southern part of the island
Cops search his hotel room for clues as his mum says ‘there was nothing wrong’
Debbie gives heart-wrenching interview in which she talks about fears he was “kidnapped” and says “I just want my baby back”
THURSDAY 20
Officers begin the fourth day of a massive manhunt for Jay
FRIDAY 21
Lancashire police are offering to help in the search, but Tenerife authorities say they are “pleased to have the resources they need”.
The search moves to the 22,000-foot gorge in Masca – part of the area locals call “the wasteland”.
SATURDAY 22
The sixth day of the search begins as sniffer dogs, police officers, mountain rescue services and firefighters once again take to the hills of northern Tenerife
A possible new sighting of Jay placed him near a church with two men at 6pm on Monday – although police have not confirmed
TREACHEROUS TERMS
Today, the police effort spans 30 kilometers in and around the Masco area where Jay was last seen.
Locals and experts have warned of dangerous conditions in the area – where the air is “thin”, temperatures change rapidly and mountains drop precipitously to the water below.
The owner of a local rental car spoke about the treacherous environment in which efforts are concentrated.
Andrew Knight, who runs Sanasty Car Hire Tenerife, lent his vehicles to help with the hunt.
He told The Mirror: “You’re up there, the air is very thin, you’ve got clouds.
“It is very cold at night, especially with thin air and cold wind.
“It would be pretty cold up there without sweaters and jackets and stuff.”
The 29-year-old warned that the weather up in the hills is also “constantly changing”.
Jonathan Stones, who moved to Tenerife more than two decades ago at the age of 13, said the Teno nature reserve was one of the most inhospitable places on the island.
He told The Sun: “Where Jay was last located via his mobile phone he has the least chance of survival.
“The barren landscape around the island’s vacation hotspots is what locals call ‘malpais’ — a word that translates to ‘bad land’ in English.”
Vicente Infante, from the Tenerife Mountain Federation, previously warned of the dangers of hiking without proper equipment.
He said: “Mountaineers in the past were prepared, they wore appropriate footwear, helmets… In short, they wore all the equipment.”
“What’s happening today is that a lot of people are wearing normal sneakers, shorts, T-shirts… there are risks.
“More and more people are going, so sooner or later an accident will happen. It’s inevitable.”
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Jay’s mum Debbie revealed a new sighting today
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