As the sixth day of the hunt for her son came to an end, the mother of a British teenager who went missing in Tenerife made a direct appeal to her son.
Debbie Duncan said she wanted to inform her son Jay Slater, 19, who hasn’t been seen since Monday: “We just need you home.”
After going to a music festival on the Spanish island, he vanished.
According to Ms. Duncan, she was “not coping very well at all” and “could not give up” on her son, who was from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire. She had also not slept.
Following Mr. Slater’s call to a friend informing them that he was stranded and in need of water, specialised dog teams have been out looking for him.
In response to inquiries concerning allegations of Mr. Slater being sighted later that day, Spanish police remained silent.
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Mountain search
On the sixth day of the search, police, rescue dog teams and firefighters reconvened in the mountainous terrain at Rural de Teno National Park, Mr Slater’s last known location.
Lancashire Police said on Friday it had offered to support officers on the island in their efforts to locate Mr Slater, but added their counterparts were “satisfied that they have the resources they need”.
The apprentice bricklayer’s friends and family have said he had earlier left the group he travelled with in the tourist hotspot of Playa de las Americas, on the south of the island.
After leaving the NRG music festival at Papagayo night club, he got in a car with two men he had met to drive to the national park in north-west Tenerife.
Come home to us’
Deryn Regan, who owns West End Fish and Chips in Oswaldtwistle, said the community was in “shock” over the disappearance of Mr Slater, who was a customer.
“Everybody knows everybody so, for something like this to happen in our area, it does sadden us all,” she said.
“I’ve got two young sons myself so, for one of them to go missing, I would be absolutely devastated, so I do really feel for the mother.”
Pauline Stables, 63, who is a barmaid at Hare and Hounds, said she remembered Mr Slater as a young boy.
“I do know his mum, Debbie, quite well and it’s her I’m feeling sorry for,” she said.
“I just can’t imagine the pain that she is going through, and the rest of his family, it’s just awful – just come home to us.”
Search parties appeared to be carefully combing over a mountain route on Friday, concentrating for a ravine before moving on to a valley in the Masca hamlet.
For the most part of the day, police and mountain rescue workers searched a steep stretch of ground behind the flat Mr Slater had allegedly gone to, while dog teams searched a nearby area of farm buildings.
A watercourse at the base of a hillside close to the property was covered with dead palm trees, which the operation meticulously searched through.
To look for any evidence, investigators have begun removing bags of trash from the area.
What we know so far
- Sunday 16 June – Jay Slater and friends attend final day of the NRG music festival at Papagayo night club in the tourist hotspot of Playa de las Americas
- Monday 17 June – Between 03:00 and 06:00 BST Mr Slater got into a car with two men he had met during the holiday and left Playa de las Americas
- 07:30 – Mr Slater posts a photograph on his Snapchat account showing him at the doorway of a property, tagged with the location Parque Rural de Teno
- Between 08:30 and 09:00 – Mr Slater calls his friend and says he missed a bus back south and was attempting to walk the 10-hour journey
- The call cuts out, with his phone’s last location showing a path in the mountainous Rural de Teno national park, popular with hikers
- Tuesday 18 June – Despite his friends searching the area, no sign of Mr Slater emerges and he does not return to his accommodation
- Local police and mountain rescue teams begin searching and his mother and brother board a flight to Tenerife
- Wednesday 19 June – The Spanish Guardia Civil continue the search using drones, dogs and a helicopter but no trace is found
- The search is briefly moved to the Los Cristianos area in the south of the island due to a potential sighting, but police quickly “discount” that lead and move the search back to the original area.
- Thursday 20 June – The Guardia Civil, mountain rescue, firefighters and volunteers return to scour the national park
- Friday 21 June – Lancashire Police confirms it has offered to help the search but says Spanish Police are “satisfied that they have the resources they need”.
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