Cops search Jay Slater’s Tenerife flat for clues after mum sent sickening ‘kidnap’ message as search enters fourth day

POLICE are searching Jay Slater’s accommodation in Tenerife for clues amid family fears that the Brit teen could’ve been kidnapped.

The massive search operation for missing Jay, 19, enters its fourth day today as more than a dozen of his loved ones have flown out to the island to help.

Jay Slater (right) pictured with his brother Zak and mum Debbie

Jay shared a video of him laughing with pals on Sunday evening before he disappearedSolarpix

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Mountain rescue, cops and firefighters have been scouring the hills for Jay in northern Tenerife[/caption]

The apprentice bricklayer, from Lancashire, disappeared on Monday morning while on holiday with two friends.

Cops scoured the teen’s hotel room in the tourist resort of Los Cristianos on Wednesday, where his distraught mum Debbie Duncan is waiting for news.

Jay was sharing the room at a three-star apartment complex with pal Brad – who he’d flown out with alongside friend Lucy Law – to go to Tenerife’s New Generation Rave festival.

He left one of the last events on Sunday night with two men he’d met that evening – and was last heard from around 8.30am the next day.

Police, who promised to keep an “open mind” about his disappearance yesterday, then scanned his accommodation for clues.

But Jay’s stricken mum Debbie said there was “nothing untoward there”.

She explained: “Police have been into Jay’s room today. I’ve been in his room as well.

“But everything of Jay’s was neatly hung up, it’s just a normal room and there’s nothing untoward there.”

Yesterday the worried mum shared a twisted Snapchat she was sent as she touched down in Tenerife on Tuesday – telling her to “kiss goodbye to your son”.

Speaking on Wednesday evening Debbie told ITN: “I got a Snapchat about 10 minutes after I got off the plane saying ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.”

She added: “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 a road there with tourists and buses and properties, He’s not that daft.”

In the three days since Jay vanished his heartbroken family have had to endure an onslaught of sick messages from trolls claiming to have kidnapped the teen.

One even came from a so-called medium who claimed to know where Jay was – and promised to tell his mum if she’d pay for their flights to Tenerife.

Online sleuths have also been posting unverified claims and bogus theories on Facebook, where over 330,000 people have joined the group ‘Jay Slater Missing’.

Apprentice bricklayer Jay, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, was booked on a flight back to the UK this morning.

But Debbie, who has now been joined in Tenerife by Jay’s dad Warren Slater, said she has his passport and isn’t expecting him to reappear in time to catch his plane.

Around 15 of Jay’s family and friends have flown out to the Canary Island this week to help with the search.

She has been staying at another apartment in the same complex Jay had booked into although she is due to move to new accommodation on Thursday.

After scouring his room with cops she said: “His passport was there along with all his euros which I’ve got now.

“I’m not sure he had any money on him when he made that last call to his friend Lucy on Monday morning before he vanished.

“I haven’t slept since all this began and I’ve no plans to go up to the search site right now.

“I just want to be here for if he does turn up but I’ve got a bad feeling. I’m being warned there’s a lot of bad people in Tenerife.”

Debbie, who previously told how sick trolls were calling her up claiming to have kidnapped her son, said “no ransom demand [has] come in yet”.

She said of the creepy Snapchat: “There’s been that many prank calls that I don’t know whether that was one but I’m passing on information to police that I think could be relevant and I thought that could be.

“For me it’s just a question of sitting and waiting and hoping that tomorrow they’ll be good news.”

SEARCH OPERATION

Jay has been missing for three days now after vanishing early on Monday morning.

A Spanish missing persons association has launched an appeal for help in finding him, dubbing his case one of “high vulnerability”.

The nonprofit has sounded the alarm in previous cases involving Brits and urged anyone with information to call the country’s emergency number 112.

Tragically valuable hours were wasted in the search on Wednesday when cops moved the operation to the other side of Tenerife after a false sighting.

Mountain rescue were told around midday to leave the hills where Jay was last seen and move to the southern tourist resorts of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas.

The huge search operation was later moved back near the village of Masca in northwestern Tenerife after the report turned out to be false.

The “Jay Slater Missing” Facebook group, which already has more than 330,000 members, claimed that cops were stopping drivers in the area to show them Jay’s photo on Wednesday morning.

Fiona Duncan, possibly Jay’s maternal aunt, announced in the page that she would be travelling out to help with Jay’s uncle and vowed to find him.

She wrote: “Myself, Jay’s uncle and sister in law fly out today at 3pm to search for Jay.

“I just want to thank everyone for their kind words and support. We will find him.”

Jay’s last Snapchat – sent on Monday morning before he disappeared

Cops stopping cars in Tenerife to show drivers Jay’s picture

MUM’S URGENT PLEA

In her latest appeal for information, a distraught Debbie spoke to ITN on Wednesday evening.

She said: “It’s a nightmare. It’s just an absolute living nightmare.

“I wouldn’t wish this on anybody. I just want my baby back. Please, just anybody who can help just look for him.

“There’s a massive area up there, massive. It’s over 48 hours now since he last had any contact with anybody. 

“He’s out there somewhere, or somebody knows where he is. We just need to find my baby.”

Jay was on his first holiday abroad this past weekend, which his mum happily encouraged him to take – while still warning him to stay vigilant.

Debbie said: “First holiday abroad, saving up, looking forward to this event, three-day DJs from everywhere, absolutely buzzing about it.

“Now I just wish I hadn’t have encouraged him to go, I should have said ”don’t go to Tenerife’.

“I said to him as well, I said ”Jay please have your wits about you, you’re in a foreign country, just stay together”.”

Jay’s friend Lucy Mae Law was the last person to speak to him before he vanished

Rescue teams scouring the hills for Jay on Wednesday

Jay’s mum Debbie with her partner Andy