The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Jay Slater has deepened with new information about his phone. Jay vanished on June 17 while holidaying in the remote Rural de Teno area of Tenerife for a three-day music festival. The 19 year old apprentice bricklayer left his friends to stay at a quiet Airbnb with two other British partygoers and attempted to walk back to his accommodation - a 19 hour trek on foot - that morning.
Jay embarked on an arduous 11-hour journey on foot and called his close friend Lucy Mae Law informing her that his phone battery was running low, he was thirsty, and had injured his leg on a cactus. His phone's last known location was in the mountainous region near the village of Masca, where Spanish police concentrated their search before officially ending it on June 30. READ MORE Beauty spot two hours from Yorkshire named world's best holiday destination Despite the official search being called off, Jay's family and friends have continued to scour the island with the help of former British police detective Mark Williams-Thomas, 54, who has investigated numerous high-profile missing persons cases.
The ex-Met Police officer shared an update on social media yesterday, revealing that he had spoken with Ayub Qassim, 31, one of the men who returned to the villa with Jay. In his conversation with Mr Qassim, Mark claimed Jay had asked him for a phone charger and then took one from the other Brit's room while he was sleeping. However, in a strange turn of events.