Pal who was last to speak to Jay Slater updates on his ‘suspicious’ disappearance & insists ‘something weird’s going on’

THE LAST person to speak to missing Brit teen Jay Slater has said his disappearance is “suspicious and weird”.

19-year-old Jay, from Lancashire, was on the island for a festival and had stayed the night with people he had just met after a rave before disappearing on his way home on Monday.

Jay Slater, 19, is still missing in Tenerife

Jay mysteriously vanished after making a frantic phone call at 8am to his pal Lucy Mae – saying he was in the “middle of nowhere”.

A desperate search was quickly launched for the teen with mountain rescue, firefighters, drones, sniffer dogs and police helicopters.

Worried friend Lucy has now said: “There’s something weird going on. It is suspicious. In two days you’re telling me someone’s not seen him.

“There’s a restaurant 10 minutes away that he would have seen or walked past. It’s suspicious and it’s weird.”

“Fair enough it didn’t open for another two hours but if that were me I would have sat and waited at the restaurant till it opened and as soon as it opened I would have said, ‘Please can you put my phone on charge’ and then I would have rung someone, I would have rung a taxi.”

Jay’s last known location was the Teno Rural Park in the northwest of the island – a popular hiking spot for tourists.

His last Snapchat post, sent on Sunday night before he disappeared, showed the teen smiling with friends.

It was filmed at around 8.30pm in the Arona area of Santa de Cruz on the south of the island, where the festival was held.

After calling Lucy at 8am on Monday a missing person’s report was filed at around 9am and the search kicked into gear.

Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan and older brother Zak flew out on Tuesday to join the efforts.

Debbie’s partner Andy Watson, told Lancashire Live how police urged the family to get out to the island as soon as possible.

He said: “It was about 2.30am in the early hours.

“The police said ‘the best thing you can do is get yourself out there’, we knew it was bad.

“This was his first holiday on his own. I’m just hoping he’s gone to another party.”

A stricken Debbie was flying out from Manchester Airport by 7am that morning.

Andy, 63, added “every mum who has a child out there has gone to help”.