A specialist in Tenerife claims to have found a ‘new clue’ in the quest to find missing teenager Jay Slater. The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished on June 17 after leaving a rural Airbnb rental in Masca.
A former serviceman who is helping volunteer search groups has allegedly found the unexpected ‘clue’, after stumbling across a pair of sunglasses with one lens missing, and and has speculated about the unsettling reasons why search parties may have missed the teenager.
It’s now been more than three weeks since the 19-year-old disappeared on the Spanish island after spending the night partying with friends.
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The official search was called off after an almost two-week-long hunt in Parque Rural de Teno near the village of Masca in Tenerife. Since then, Jay’s devastated family including his mother Debbie Duncan, father Warren Slater and older brother Zak, have been largely reliant on the help of skilled volunteers to continue the search.
They are being supported by experienced professionals, including volunteer Christopher Pennington, a former serviceman in the British military who traded the UK for Tenerife in 2006.
Chris, now working in property development, expressed his disbelief when the official search was called off, reports the Mirror. He blasted the law enforcement officials for purely ‘sticking to the paths’, hypothesising that Jay followed the same route, claiming that the area has ‘not been searched properly’.
While navigating the demanding terrain of Parque Rural de Teno, where continuous efforts have been focussed since the apprentice bricklayer went missing, Chris claims to have come across a fresh ‘clue’.
Just days after the police ended their search, the British ex-reservist stumbled upon a pair of sunglasses with one lens missing, eerily similar to those the 19-year-old was last seen wearing at the NRG festival before his disappearance. The glasses were found near the area where the teen’s phone signal had last been detected.
Chris promptly turned the sunglasses over to the authorities, and they are now retained as part of the police investigation. Known as ChristopherTenerife or simply Chris, the expatriate Brit shared a video where he scours a vast area of the rugged terrain.
In the footage, he asserts that there’s ‘no way’ the area was thoroughly searched and states: “I don’t buy into the conspiracy theories, I don’t buy into someone took Jay. When you come and stand on this terrain, if that lad was heading for the coast I honestly think he’s had a bit of misfortune.
“He’s had a fall, he’s had an accident or he’s dehydrated and passed out. I feel he’s in this ravine, in this area of Tenerife . . . missing I honestly believe that.”
Chris has pinpointed the ‘most sensible’ search areas, based on the last known location of Jay’s phone signal. He ventured into the dense undergrowth near where he discovered the sunglasses and described the challenge of moving through the thorny terrain with limited visibility.
He told Mail+, “You can only imagine that he’s looked down at the coastline in the distance and thinks it’s a lot closer than it really is. And that heading straight through the bush is the quickest route to safety,” he said.
“If Jay came off the path and went through there, like I’ve just done, he wouldn’t leave the path again. You’d have to be mad.”
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