JAYA SLATER’s friend Lucy Mae Law has shared a new picture of the missing teenager 18 days after he went missing in Tenerife.
Taking to her Instagram for the first time in weeks, Lucy posted a snap of the two together with a crying face emoji.
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Lucy shared this new photo of her and Jay on her Instagram
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Lucy Mae Law, the last person to speak to Jay before he disappeared
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Jay, 19, has been missing for 18 days
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Jay went missing in north-west Tenerife on June 17 – in the Rural de Teno mountain park (pictured)
Lucy was the last person to speak to Jay on the morning of June 17 and has been searching for him in Tenerife ever since.
The couple flew to the island for a vacation together and went to a rave at Papagayo nightclub on June 16 during the NRG music festival.
He disappeared the next morning in the Rural de Teno Park, a rare park area in the northwest of the island.
Lucy soon set up a GoFundMe to raise money for Jay’s family, who are also in Tenerife searching for the missing 19-year-old.
He was last heard from by apprentice bricklayer Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, when he phoned Lucy to say he was “lost in the middle of nowhere”.
He had returned to a remote Airbnb with two Brits the night before, after partying at a rave with Lucy and another friend, Brad.
After missing the bus, he began walking the 11-hour route back to his accommodation and disappeared into the rural mountains.
A massive search was quickly launched with the police, mountain rescue service, firefighters, volunteers, drones, sniffer dogs and a helicopter.
To the dismay of Jay’s parents, the active search was called off last Sunday.
Police promised to stay updated on new developments.
Lucy previously said she found Jay’s unexplained disappearance “strange” and “suspicious”.
More than two weeks ago, she warned: “Something strange is happening. It’s suspicious. In two days you will tell me that someone did not see him.
“There is a restaurant 10 minutes away that he would have seen or passed by. It’s suspicious and strange.”
Fighting back tears, Lucy said her friend was “not stupid” and called her from a “full mountaineer” area in “broad daylight”.
She added: “To be fair, it only opened in two hours, but if it were me, I would sit and wait in the restaurant until it opened.
“As soon as it opened, I’d say ‘Please can you put my phone on charge’ and then I’d call somebody, I’d call a taxi.”
Lucy has not spoken publicly about her friend’s disappearance for more than two weeks, but previously revealed she had found two people who saw Jay just an hour before he disappeared.
She said: “We managed to find the house. I knocked on the door and there were two people there.”
The couple told Lucy Jay that they had gone out to buy cigarettes before returning to their flat.
When he returned, he told them that he wanted to go back to his accommodation.
Lucy added: “They told me he spoke to the neighbors and they told him there was a bus to Los Cristianos every 10 minutes.
“The bus stop was right next to the house.
“So obviously he wouldn’t have gotten lost because he had gone to get the bus [the stop] was visible from the front door.”
Jay’s worried parents Debbie and Warren, along with his brother Zak and extended family, search for him alone in the sparse undergrowth.
Warren told the Manchester Evening News that he thought his son may have been walking towards the sea when he went missing.
The heartbroken dad also shared his anger at the police response to Jay’s disappearance.
He said: “I’ve been through a bit of grief and I’m angry, if that makes any sense.
“I’m mad that nothing happened. If I left you here and then you just disappeared, don’t you think the police would be on my case?”
Several search experts and a former detective claimed the teenager could be alive somewhere in the mountains.
Army reservist and search expert Juan García believes the police stopped their search for the missing Jay too early and warned him beforehand that he could feed on plants and rainwater to survive.
Former detective Hedges told The Sun: “It’s certainly possible. I think it’s important to let the inquiry keep all lines of inquiry open until they’re proven to be unsustainable.
“It’s quite a long time to survive without food. It depends on how much rain falls, on whether there is enough water.
“But certainly, you should always consider that possibility.”
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Jay’s mum and dad, Debbie Duncan and Warren Slater, are looking for him in Tenerife
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