The development firm that employs lacking British teenager Jay Slater has stated the “image being painted of him is simply not true” – as search groups narrowed their efforts on small buildings near the place his telephone final pinged.
Mr Slater, an apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle close to Blackburn in Lancashire, has been lacking in Tenerife since Monday morning.
The 19-year-old’s family have flown to the Spanish island to affix police and a workforce of mountain rescuers within the seek for him.
Since he went lacking, rumours and conspiracy theories about his disappearance have circulated on-line, with social media customers speculating on platforms together with TikTok and Fb.
Mr Slater’s mom Debbie Duncan instructed The Guardian that police in Tenerife have stated there may be “an excessive amount of noise” across the case, including: “They have all of the plans, their areas. They’ve this map they had been exhibiting us, shaded totally different colors.”
The development firm that employs Mr Slater as an apprentice bricklayer stated {the teenager} has been misrepresented on-line.
PH Construct Group’s assertion on Fb reads: “Our Jay remains to be lacking!
“Now we have determined to take away our final publish because of all of the destructive feedback and conspiracy theories.
“Jay has been with us since he left faculty and is preferred by all. He is a valued member of our workforce and we stand by him.
“The image being painted of him is simply not true. The actual fact is he is a 19-year-old lad lacking in another country. He must be again residence the place he belongs. Come on Jay we’re all praying for you.”
Pic: Lucy Legislation
Officers looking for Mr Slater in Tenerife might be seen circling two buildings on the backside of a ravine in Rural de Teno Park on Sunday – the place his telephone final pinged earlier than it ran out of battery.
Efforts gave the impression to be solely centered on the one space after days of searches within the northwestern mountain village of Masca and the encompassing panorama.
These conducting the searches on the seventh day of the hunt for Mr Slater might be seen wanting into blue barrels exterior one of many small buildings.
Mr Slater attended the NRG competition within the south of Tenerife on Sunday 16 June earlier than going to Masca with two folks he met on the occasion.
His buddies he had been holidaying with haven’t seen him since final Sunday night time, however on Monday morning he spoke to considered one of them on the telephone and instructed her he was misplaced, in want of water, and solely had 1% cost on his telephone.
Through the quick telephone name, he instructed Lucy Legislation he had missed a bus attempting to get again to his vacation lodging so was making an attempt to stroll as a substitute – a journey that might take 11 hours.
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Mr Slater’s father instructed Sky Information he’s “simply hoping that any person has helped him off this mountain”.
Warren Slater has flown out to Tenerife with the lacking teenager’s brother Zak to assist with the search.
The daddy stated the previous couple of days have been “a nightmare, only a nightmare”.
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‘I simply need him again’
In the meantime, Mr Slater’s mom made a direct plea to her lacking son to come back residence, saying: “We simply want you residence.”
Ms Duncan stated she has “not slept” since he disappeared.
Requested how the household had been dealing with the scenario, she stated: “We’re not. I am not coping very effectively in any respect. I’ve not slept, I am exhausted. It has been terrible. I am unable to hand over on him, I simply can’t.”
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Tenerife native was final individual to see Jay Slater
The final individual to talk to Mr Slater was Masca native Ofelia Medina Hernandez, who instructed {the teenager} a bus was due at 10am after he requested what time it could come.
She added that he then set off earlier than she later drove previous him “strolling quick”.
Earlier this week, photographs emerged exhibiting the Tenerife property the place Mr Slater had reportedly been earlier than he went lacking.
A GoFundMe web page for Mr Slater’s household has raised greater than £29,000 and can go in direction of household and buddies staying in Tenerife whereas the hunt continues.