EXCLUSIVE Jay Slater vanished in a narco-fuelled party capital - now new info suggests drugs may have played a key role. Read GUY ADAMS'S exclusive report uncovering worrying new details..
. GUY ADAMS retraced Jay steps and found signs of the drugs trade everywhere The spot where the teen's phone vanished is virtually impossible to walk through By Guy Adams Published: 21:37 EDT, 26 June 2024 | Updated: 04:22 EDT, 27 June 2024 e-mail 534 shares 123 View comments You can buy almost anything on Veronica’s Strip, a neon-lit parade of bars and clubs that runs parallel to the black-sand beach of Playa de las Americas. Walking through crowds of scantily-clad young Brits in the early hours of yesterday, I was assailed by street vendors offering everything from sunglasses and jewellery to ‘hashish’, laughing gas balloons, ‘sexy ladies’ and class-A drugs.
A 30-something man with the accent of a Cockney market trader was bellowing ‘pills and powder’ to passers-by. He meant ecstasy and cocaine, and wasn’t short of takers. Leaning against cars, across the pavement from packed venues pumping out dry ice and high-decibel dance music, was the muscle: small groups of burly eastern European men, with forearms like Popeye.
They kept a beady and somewhat sinister eye on proceedings. It was just another night in the narco-fuelled party capital of the Canary Islands — where the music only stops when the sun comes up, and another raucous summer is just getting started. You coul.
