Jay Slater's mother is sent vile message saying 'kiss goodbye to son' (2024)

Missing British teenager Jay Slater cut his leg on a cactus and didn't know where he was during the last phone call he made, it was revealed last night.

His best friend Lucy Law has been desperately searching for the19-year-old bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, ever since he went missing on Monday morning.

Jay was last seen getting into a car with two people he met on Sunday night after NRG music festival in south Tenerife.

He is believed to have travelled with them to a property in Rural de Teno Park, a 40 minute drive or 10-hour walk from where he was staying in Playa de las Americas.

Jay was reported missing after he rang Lucy to say he was lost, dehydrated and only had one per cent battery on his phone as he tried to walk home.

But panic erupted when the call cut out suddenly, and he has not been seen or heard from since.

Last night, Lucy revealed more about the panicked phone call she received from Jay, including that he had 'cut his leg on a cactus' as he tried to walk along the remote path.

Shedding light on his last known contact, the teenager told Sky Newshow Jay had posted a Snapchat image of the house he had visited, showing mountains in the background.

She then desperately drove around the area until she found the property, using the mountains and flower beds as markers to locate it.

Lucy said: 'We managed to find the house. I knocked on the door and there were two people there.'

The occupants told her how Jay had gone out for a cigarettes before going back in and saying he wanted to go home.

Jay's final Snapchat picture is an out-of-focus image of a hand holding a cigarettes at a property in the Buenavista del Norte area at 7.30am on Monday.

'They told me he'd spoken to the next door neighbours and they'd told him there was a bus every 10 minutes back down to Los Cristianos,' she said.

'The bus stop was right next to the house. So obviously if he'd gone to get the bus he wouldn't have got lost because it [the stop] was visible from the front door.'

The search for Jay has entered its third day with mountain rescue crews, sniffer dogs and police scouring the remote north-west side of the island for any signs of him.

Around 15 of Jay's family and friends have flown out to Tenerife to help with the search, including his mother Debbie Duncan, father Warren Slater and brother Zak.

Since he went missing, Ms Duncan has been receiving sickening phone calls from Brits with 'northern accents' claiming to have kidnapped her son.

Yesterday, she revealed another horrifying message sent to her just moments after touching down in Tenerife.

It read:'Kiss goodbye to your boy, you're never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.'

Distraught Ms Duncan said her son is 'streetwise' and 'not stupid', now fearing he may have been kidnapped.

She explained: 'I've got a bad feeling. I'm being warned there's a lot of bad people in Tenerife.I just think he's being held against his will. He's not a stupid lad. He wouldn't have gone walking down bloody mountains.

'There's no ransom demand come in yet.I've told them [police] my suspicions, that I think Jay's been taken up north by people against his will.'

Accrington and Rossendale College, where Jay was studying for his apprenticeship, issued a statement to say: 'We are deeply concerned about the recent news regarding one of our apprentices, Jay Slater, who has gone missing while on holiday in Tenerife.

'The safety and wellbeing of our students are of utmost importance to us, and our thoughts at this worrying time are with Jay's family and friends.'

Social media posts from the night before show Jay went missing show the teenager smiling in a grey t-shirt with green patches on the shoulders.

Yesterday afternoon, concern for Jay's wellbeing deepened as the chaotic search to track him down shifted dramatically.

The search had centred on the remote area near the village of Masca in north-west Tenerife.

But suddenly police focus shifted to the tourist hotspots of Los Cristianos and Playa de las Americas in south Tenerife, after a false sighting of him getting out of a taxi.

It later emerged the report was false and police, having wasted precious time in the blistering 27C heat, were forced to move attention back to their original site.

Responding to the misleading report of Jay being sighted on the opposite side of the island, Ms Law said: 'Someone has given a false lead to the police saying he's rang a taxi down to Los Cristianos.

'If this was the case he would have rang his mum or one of us. I know him well and he would not have us worrying.

'Someone is trying to deter the police from him being up there. I'm starting to think he's been kidnapped.'

After around seven fake GoFundMe pages were set up and debunked by his family, a real fundraising page by Jay's friends has now been verified.

Its raised an impressive£13,119 in five hours as of the time of writing, set up by Lucy.