So one of the guys he stayed with at the AirBnB was a drug dealer? See BBM(Bolded by me) in article below. The red part links to another article where he speaks. This is all just dodgy as heck.
The Civil Guard has spoken out on the investigation
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
From the link-
Asked whether the investigation had moved on and police now had a clearer idea of what had happened to Jay, a spokesman for the
Civil Guard said: "The investigation is ongoing and several lines of inquiry are being pursued."
On Monday, the search for Jay hit a tragic landmark, with the search passing three weeks to the day since he was last seen on June 17. The teenager was holidaying with friends Lucy Law, 18, and Brad Hargreaves, 19, and had been partying at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas the night before he vanished.
He left the club with two British men, one named Ayub Qassim, 31, known by the nickname 'Johnny Vegas', and an unnamed second man, to head to their Airbnb rental near the remote village of Masca on the north of the island. Jay left the Airbnb on the Monday morning.
Jay Slater (Image: Family Handout/LBT Global/PA)
At around 8.30am, he called Lucy to say he was in the middle of nowhere, trying to get home with no water and 1 per cent on his phone battery. His last known location was in the Rural de Teno Park in the north of the Canary Island – which was about an 11-hour walk from his accommodation in Los Cristianos.
Mr Qassim, who was imprisoned nine years ago for orchestrating a scheme to inundate Wales with Class A drugs, said Jay 'came to the Airbnb alive and left the Airbnb alive'. Spanish police have deemed both men to be of no relevance to their missing person investigation.
Yesterday, Jay's dad Warren
blasted two 'wild goose chases' as he widened his personal search for the missing teenager. Warren was joined by Jay's brother Zak in a gruelling search of Tenerife's rugged valleys to where the 19-year-old was last seen.
But he voiced frustration with the challenging landscape, saying it would take an army 10 years to search all of the mountainous terrain. He told how they had been on 'two wild goose chases' on Sunday to abandoned buildings where they hoped Jay could be.
Brother Zak and dad Warren had widened their own personal search to the outskirts of the village (Image: Stan Kujawa)
Warren continued to voice his
frustration at the local police investigation, calling for British cops to get involved and help the family. He said: "I’ve been through 80% of that valley, so we went further along.
"We’ve drove and we’ve walked down the path at the next village, up the mountain there’s a viewpoint that looks down, you can either follow the road, but we didn’t, we parked up and walked down.”
Speaking to Mail Online yesterday, Warren added: "We need to, as a full family, do a proper press conference and ask the British authorities to help. He’s a British citizen. Get Interpol involved.
“It’s just us. I haven’t got a team. We need a team to come over here and find out for us what the police are doing and what we need to do.
“Our hands are tied over here, we need experts. How long can you stay here for?
“It’ll take an army 10 years to cover all this. I’d employ a team of Gurkhas.”
I feel for the family and what I'm going to say probably wouldn't be liked by them.
But it seemed to me from the start it was about drugs or sex or something. I mean why would you go with strangers to God knows where. Now what you posted said they tried to inundate an area with drugs. And it is sometimes learned the hard way but when you or your child goes to another country, the same rules, laws and rights don't apply as to trying to get it investigated, etc. by your own authorities in your country.
This was clearly a trip to party and not blaming but his friend left him. Yes answers need to come and him to be found and the same investigation given that would be given to any missing person in the Canary Islands.
On top of that if a tourist destination and in this case was it music festival too, such don't want bad press. This applies to cruise ships, tropical vacation spots and so on, we've seen so many.
Like I said this is odd and what our just posted makes it even odder. So this was a British citizen that want to flood Wales with Class A drugs? And was imprisoned for it? Yet released? And nickname is Johnny Vegas? I mean this just gets weirder.
He needs to be looked for, he needs to be found, just like anyone. However, the activities and choices here weren't great unless of course someone drugged him while out but then too the friend should have stuck with him. That's not blame, it's just talking what seem to be the facts. You're not at home, you are out partying, etc.
Maybe it's the news but I feel there's more info put out on the Go Fund Me than the investigation and search for him, etc.
That could be simply because it's not our country and not picked up as much or easy to find but what you've posted has more info than anything I've seen.
I still kind of find all his contacts a bit odd and I guess if hotter than heck (is it and was it I suppose) you'd worry you had no water, your phone was about dead and you are now it is said 11 miles from where you're staying but that too to me sounds a bit odd. IS it THAT remote? I know absolutely nothing about the Canary Islands much less the geography and areas on them.
This entire thing is weird.
I don't mean I don't hope he is safe or that I don't feel for the family. I pray he's found safe and this is some hoax but it's been a long time and the men he left with sound pretty shady.
Drugs and to continue partying would be my guess as to why you'd go off with two men. Or drugged and lured, etc., taken advantage of.
Is drinking age 18 in the Islands? I know it is in many a tourist area and for a reason. Like Aruba. That's of course why it was an annual trip for a graduating class in the Holloway case, etc.
Here it is 21. Wasn't always but has been for a long time. If any state is still 18, I'd be surprised. I think even Vegas changed it and they'd be the last ones to want to do so.
I've said it before and will again, if your ADULT child wants to take a trip and especially out of country and even out of state, if you find a single part of their life, use that and say NO. Many come back safe and unharmed of course but we see too much of things like this. They are not mature and in big tourist/popular areas criminals are just waiting for such targets. Or even a "hick' that's older but naive. Etc. I've traveled enough to have seen it and know it. It's something you don't see or realize until you've been a few times and/or get older and notice more.
AGain this one is ODD.
I'm guessing they can say the men are clear and he wasn't with the men because he called someone or pinged somewhere after leaving there...? Can't recall and not a lot of time. Well I have a couple of hours but have to start moving and getting ready for work and down to a couple of hours is crunch time for my routine. Shower, something to eat, getting the work clothes ready, packing the bag, feeding the boys, etc. and I like it to not be too much of a rushed crunch and two hours is to me time to start moving and doing it all.
My kids have taken a few trips that I did nothing but worry about them, heck they still do and are fine but that's just me and a parent imo. One is married, the other works on the road, one would think I'd quit worrying and they aren't 19. I'm not judging so much as hoping other parents think about and see this, stop them from going if you can. Hindsight, not that anything bad happened here, you just realize as the years ago on even as a parent. My one daughter called me once from the Virgin Islands and it scared the living sh*t out of me. And then the call cut off. WHAT was I supposed to do? It all ended up fine but yes she and two friends were on a trip that what parent would want to deny them, just stressing to be safe, play safe, etc. Neither of mine have ever had a drug think Thank God and both are late 30s, one early 40s now. I worried about her and her friends going but there wasn't anything I could do. She worked, she was self sufficient and over 18.
Again our country is weird. Go to war at 18, have to support self, charged as an adult as you are one but you can't drink, smoke, etc. or buy such until 21.
I hope there ends up being a good result in this case. I hope it's like a "Carlee Russell" thing but seeming not to be. Or that woman in California, wow. Or that girl in Washington. Meaning a hoax. Because that results in them alive at least.
Yep kind of going on and wandering. Sorry. Don't get a lot of chance and back to the grind. I would however say can anyone say this one isn't a bit weird? It's really hard to get an opinion on although maybe SM tells more if anyone who knows him, the men, etc. is talking on such.
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