00:00Hello, how can I help you?
00:21My friend, he's met some people and they've driven him up into the mountains.
00:25I don't know why.
00:26And he's left the house.
00:28I don't know if something happened.
00:30And I was telling him, you need to go back to your friends and tell them to drive you
00:34back down.
00:35And he said, no, I can't, I can't.
00:37But I don't know why that was.
00:41His name?
00:42Jay Slater.
00:46Because he told you, adult, that he needs to be rescued.
00:49Yeah.
00:51He said he feels like he's going to die up there.
00:53And then the phone cut off.
00:55We start with a desperate search going on on the holiday island of Tenerife.
01:11Spanish police say they're doing everything possible to find a British teenager.
01:1519-year-old Jay Slater, who's from Lancashire, was last seen on Monday morning.
01:22Jay was in Tenerife for a music festival with friends for his first holiday without his
01:25parents.
01:26He then left this festival with a number of individuals who he'd met on that night.
01:31They drove in a car to a rural area in the north of the island.
01:37The last person to hear from him was his friend Lucy.
01:40He called her with just 1% battery remaining on his phone.
01:47That was the last time his friends heard from him.
01:52At 9.04, Jay was then reported missing.
01:58Jake decided that he was going to this festival in Tenerife.
02:17He'd been saving from the year before because he knew that, you know, he didn't want to go
02:21abroad.
02:21He said, you'll have a great time, you know.
02:24Well, anxious, obviously.
02:25Just said a few wits about you, just watch what you're doing.
02:30I was going with Lucy and then his other friend Brad, and then they were meeting some friends
02:36of Lucy's out there.
02:37He's growing up now, he's 19, he's been to all these parties and other festivals, so
02:42yeah, just get yourself out there.
02:44Get some fun under your belt.
02:45So this is Jay's room.
02:57It was very tidy, actually, Jay.
03:01It was his first holiday on his own.
03:03His passport, when it came, the dog ate it.
03:07The dog got up on the table, I don't know how, and then he chewed it to bits, and it were
03:12in his cage.
03:13I said to Jay, flipping it, you've only had this passport two days.
03:17We had to send it off and get another one.
03:20And we packed his case together the night before we were going.
03:24As I said, you're taking a lot.
03:25And it's like, oh, Polly won't get it in.
03:27I said, yeah, you will.
03:29I'll show you.
03:29So we were rolling it all.
03:31Instead of folding it, then it didn't crease.
03:38He messaged me when he were at the airport.
03:41Sent me a little video of him just laughing and just having the best time.
03:47He goes, me and Jay and I, mate, walking home.
03:52He rang me on the Saturday night, and he said, I've burnt my shoulders, Mum.
03:57I put him some, like, aloe vera gel in his bag.
04:02He says, is that what that green stuff is?
04:04Will it be all right on my shoulders?
04:06I'm like, yeah, just slap that on your shoulders.
04:08It'll ease your sunburner.
04:12On the Sunday, they were just getting ready to go out for the last bit of the festival.
04:19He FaceTimed me.
04:21I love you, my boy.
04:22That's what I used to say to him.
04:24I love you, my boy.
04:25I only said, I love you, Mother.
04:30I'll speak to you tomorrow.
04:32I love you, Mother.
04:35Oh,
04:38I love you, Mother.
04:55I love you, Mother.
05:25Right, what are you doing and where are you? I'm coming down to get you now.
05:32You're not there this time. I'm going to be fucking fuming.
05:55I was at work. I got a call from Lucy. She just said, Jay's missing. He didn't come back last night.
06:11She just said I've reported him missing to the police.
06:15My legs were just like jelly. I've just gone into panic.
06:18It's an emergency. Who is it you're reporting missing?
06:27What, my son?
06:28Your son.
06:29Do you know where he was staying exactly in Tenerese?
06:33Lost Cristiano.
06:35He's been located as miles and miles away from where he was staying, up a blooming mountain.
06:41And you say he's been located. Is that on his phone location?
06:45He rang early hours this morning and said his phone were 1%. He was on his own.
06:51He didn't know where he was and he were in the middle of the mountains.
06:55So they found this place, knocked on the door, and there's two English lads there.
07:01And all they've said is, yeah, he's been here, but he left this morning.
07:04Oh, it's a bit odd that they've not given you any details of where he's gone, isn't it?
07:10I said, well, they've done something to him.
07:13Yeah, we all tried to ring, of course, but how can you get lost in Tenerife?
07:20These boys, boys, boys on the beach, you don't look behind you until you have to.
07:34I got a phone call off Debbie, and I'll never forget it.
07:40I just said, oh, yeah, you're all right.
07:41And I just told her the voice, she just said, no, Jay's gone missing in Tenerife.
07:47And it's like time's stood still sort of thing.
07:53What do you mean?
07:54Debbie was in a state of panic, and as soon as she'd mentioned that he'd gone up into the mountains
07:59and he'd gone missing, I just knew something wasn't right.
08:05When it got to midnight and there was just nothing, we'd have no contact,
08:10so then it would just, let's get some flights booked.
08:13I literally threw a few things in a bag and that were it.
08:17I just cried the whole way there.
08:19I just had my head in my jacket and I just cried all the way there,
08:23thinking, what the hell is going on?
08:29Hello, I went to the police station this morning.
08:38Are you a friend of Jay Slater, madam?
08:40Yeah.
08:41Do you know where he is?
08:42No, no, no.
08:43No, he hasn't show up yet.
08:45He's been out there all day.
08:48I just want to know, please.
08:51Can you tell me if someone's looking for him now?
08:54I need to know if someone's looking for him or not.
08:59The police is looking for him right now.
09:05We arrived, come outside the airport and my phone went
09:09and it was a WhatsApp message.
09:12And it was a disappearing message.
09:14You know, the ones that only stay as soon as you read and they go.
09:18I looked at it and I just said to Zach, take a photograph of this.
09:21I'll give you one warning, your son won't be coming back.
09:24He owes us enough fucking G money.
09:27Kiss goodbye to him.
09:30Traumatised as soon as we walked out of the airport.
09:33What the hell's going on?
09:34From an early age, we were just full of fun and mischievous.
09:52Cute, big blue eyes.
09:54You know, he stood out and he had curls.
09:59He was just gorgeous.
10:01Just had a nice little family unit.
10:05Life and soul had parted.
10:07Ever since he was growing up, he was always centre of attention.
10:10Even when he was little, he was always up dancing and stuff.
10:14Yay, baby!
10:16We struggled to conceive, so we had IVF to have Zach
10:22and then five years later, IVF to have Jay.
10:27I just felt so blessed.
10:37We just completed our family.
10:40Hello, Jay.
10:42Are you taking a picture or are you recording?
10:44Why do you have to pull that funny face?
10:48There's a little lad.
10:50Hard work.
10:52Compared to Zach.
10:54We were laid back.
10:55Jay were a million miles an hour.
10:59He was very inquisitive.
11:01He always wanted to be doing something.
11:11British teenager Jay Slater
11:12who were missing in Tenerife on Monday.
11:15On Sunday afternoon, Jay attended the NRG Festival
11:17in South Tenerife with a group of friends.
11:20They'd been staying in an apartment in Los Cristianos.
11:23After that festival, he went to a village called Masca in the north.
11:26When we first arrived,
11:34Gordie Sybil headed the search.
11:36There was search and rescue, a lot of volunteers.
11:39There were helicopters up.
11:41Warren, Zach, my brother,
11:43were up them mountains,
11:44just frantically searching.
11:46The terrain, you can't really explain it
11:48until you get off that path.
11:51Everything wants to cut you.
11:53This is the club in Las Americas
11:58where Jay Slater spent the night before he disappeared.
12:01Now, we understand he met two friends that night
12:04and went on with them to a remote village up in the mountains
12:08about an hour away from here.
12:10Story surfaced that he'd gone off
12:13with people who they'd met.
12:15Rocky and Ayub
12:16Found out Ayub is a convicted drug dealer.
12:21He had served time in prison.
12:23Jay is very, very sociable
12:25and loved meeting new people
12:28and probably a bit too trusting.
12:31There are still so many questions about what happened,
12:35why he came here
12:36and, most importantly, where Jay is now.
12:40Lucy, Jay's friend, had set up a GoFundMe.
12:44I mean, I didn't say, let's get a GoFundMe.
12:47I didn't think there were any need
12:49because I just thought, he's going to turn up.
12:52Although Lucy couldn't access the money,
12:55she thought it may help with people searching
12:58and accommodation costs,
13:00but the money were going up and up
13:02and it just span out of control.
13:05Conspiracy theories of Jay's lost an amount of drugs.
13:09If he gets the 30k, he's coming home, I'm telling you.
13:12Apparently, what they do is, yeah,
13:14they get bags of naughty candy, right?
13:16Naughty candy.
13:17And obviously, when there's festivals and stuff going around,
13:19right, they sell them.
13:21You see that festival he was at, the NRG, right?
13:23Apparently, he lost his bag full of the naughty candy
13:25and that cost about 30 grand.
13:28YouTubers, TikTokers, they were all,
13:30he's been taken up into the mountains,
13:32he's been kidnapped.
13:33We've seen a video,
13:35it's been verified and it's true.
13:37The video shows Jay Slater was tortured.
13:40He was tortured so much that he lost his sight.
13:45Lucy put a target amount, 30,000,
13:48so that's it, once it reaches 30,000,
13:51she'll hand this money over to these people who've got Jay.
13:55I were convinced that that were going to be the case
13:57and I were even saying to her,
13:59is that what you need this money for?
14:01Is that what you set it up for?
14:03He was saying, no, no.
14:05I just wanted to believe anything,
14:07to think that he was still alive.
14:10All the conspiracy theories were out there
14:12that had been held somewhere, had been kidnapped.
14:16I was thinking, at least if we got him back,
14:19I could have mended him.
14:19Just if you've got him, he's not a bad person.
14:29He's just got in some, I don't know,
14:32if he has got in any trouble,
14:34please just let him go.
14:36Just let him go.
14:38I was just in an absolute mistake.
14:41I was just on my knees,
14:43just not knowing I was just on my knees.
14:45It was awful.
14:46It was awful.
14:50Thank you, Jay.
14:52Happy birthday to you.
14:58Joe, when he left school,
15:00he always knew he wanted to go into,
15:03you know, having a trade.
15:05So he did an apprenticeship for Brick Lane.
15:08He really enjoyed it.
15:10He'd always come home from work and be like,
15:11I've done this today, I've done that.
15:13Showing pictures that he took of stuff he's built on his phone,
15:16but everybody's had to be in your house to do it.
15:19Maybe it was just one of them.
15:21And though he was knackered,
15:22he always had a smile on his face,
15:24if he'd had a hard day,
15:26telling me about where they'd been working
15:27and be up at like,
15:29oh, it's an early one tomorrow, Mum.
15:31I'm getting picked up at six,
15:33so I'd be up at like half five.
15:35But I always got up with him
15:36and we'd have a brew.
15:38And he just were enjoying life
15:41and spreading his wings.
15:50We were told that when Jay was up in Masca,
15:53the doorbell went around 7.45am
15:57and it was the owner of the Airbnb.
15:59He needed I up to move his car.
16:02And apparently that's when Jay decided to leave.
16:05This is the house where Jay came
16:06in the early hours of Monday morning.
16:08We have spoken to an eyewitness.
16:10I saw the boy in the morning at around 8am.
16:13He asked twice what time the bus came.
16:15I told him at 10 o'clock.
16:19She then says about 20 minutes later,
16:21she was driving up towards the mountains and hills.
16:24She said that she saw him walking there
16:26and she drove past him.
16:29He was going in the wrong direction.
16:34So Ophelia was the Spanish lady
16:37who runs the cafe that's attached
16:39onto the side of the B&B.
16:42She's the last person to see him alive.
16:45Any reason to believe that
16:46she's not telling the truth?
16:48No.
16:49Yes.
16:50Who knows?
16:54We've just got to go off
16:57the Spanish police investigation.
17:00But then content creators were saying,
17:03this isn't real.
17:04This isn't true.
17:05There's no proof that Jay
17:06left the NRG festival alive.
17:08No proof whatsoever.
17:09No CCTV of him walking down the roads.
17:12I mean, look, we've been here before.
17:13We've said this so many times before.
17:15There's just no proof.
17:16We're coming up at the similar time that Jay was supposed to have left the bed and breakfast.
17:39And just for my own curiosity,
17:42I'd just like to see how many people are about this time in the morning.
17:48It's just so raw.
17:50Because I feel like we're only just finding out more facts for ourselves.
17:55It's a scary place when you look at them.
17:57Right, what time are we on?
18:03Are we on the...
18:04About 8 o'clock.
18:05Right, so this is more or less the right time then.
18:09Oh, it's open.
18:10Here's the B&B.
18:11Nice inside.
18:19Well, literally, as soon as you come out the door, the bus stops there.
18:22But he's been told that there's not a bus until 10 o'clock.
18:26So I presume he's looked both ways and decided to go to the left.
18:33Instead of walking down there.
18:35Logic tells you the easiest way.
18:38You walk down a hill instead of walking up a hill.
18:51It's being back here and just thinking what he was thinking.
18:54And just how the eye deceives when you're stood here and you just look just there and you can see the sea.
19:02Is that what he thought?
19:03What the sea's there?
19:05Why walk around all these windy roads and I can just get through there?
19:21We're very close here to Jay Slater's last known location.
19:26It's just down from the main road.
19:28Although I use that phrase loosely because we are high up in the mountains here in this national park.
19:35When we arrived on the Wednesday, I think we were still at the stage where people have turned up in circumstances similar to that before.
19:44And so you're hoping along with everybody else that there's an explanation for why he's missing.
19:49Debbie was beside herself with worry.
19:52She was distraught, but she was really keen that as much information about Jay and...
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