Jay Slater’s pal Lucy Mae Law shares unseen pictures of missing teen as she flies home from four-week search
JAY Slater’s best pal Lucy Mae Law has shared some unseen photos of the pair three weeks after the Brit first went missing.
Taking to her Instagram for the first time in weeks, Lucy, 18, posted a series of snaps showing the close friends smiling together and hanging out at pubs, music events and raves.
It appears she posted the five new pictures over the weekend after she flew back to the UK for the first time since Jay vanished on June 17.
The pair flew out to the holiday island together and went to a rave at Papagayo nightclub on June 16 during the NRG music festival.
Lucy returned to their holiday apartment in Los Cristianos with their third friend Brad Hargreaves late into the night – leaving Jay to party.
The apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire then went home with two men to an Airbnb hours away from where he was staying.
Jay spent the night sleeping on the sofa up in the mountainous region of Masca before he left on his own in the morning.
The teenager hasn’t been seen since.
One of the men – convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim – says Jay left the house alive.
Lucy has kept quiet since her pal disappeared with the latest pictures being just the second time she has publicly posted online in the last month.
The latest collection of photos are all labelled with a blue love heart emoji – known as the symbol of friendship.
One of the loving pictures shows Jay smiling in a black puffer coat as Lucy poses before what looks like a night out.
The second story slide features three pictures with one showing the pals posing in a similar fashion.
Another snap, taken from a booth in a pub, shows Jay sitting in the middle of four of his female friends.
A second young man is also in the pic as they all smile at the camera apart from a glum looking Jay.
The next two show Jay, Lucy and a number of pals at separate music events with drinks in hand.
A fifth and final photo shows the group of friends getting ready to go out for the night.
Jay and Lucy are front and centre as they both wear sunglasses with a beaming grin on their faces.
It comes as former investigator Mark Williams-Thomas – who has been working on the case for weeks – claims to have pieced together Jay’s last known movements.
Mark spoke to Qassim who told him the teen woke up asking to leave the Airbnb as he was hungry.
Qassim, who rented out the holiday let, says Jay wanted to go home so he could “get a scran”, and was planning on catching a bus.
Mark says that Qassim told him “no bus is coming”, and offered to drive him after taking a nap, but the teen left anyway.
It has since been claimed by Mark that Jay left in a panic and was “scared” to return to the Airbnb.
The missing teen then tried to make his way back to his holiday apartment which was an 11-hour trek away.
Lucy is believed to have been the last person to speak to Jay on the morning of his disappearance.
Panicked Jay told her he was stranded in the “middle of nowhere”, needed water and claimed to have only had one per cent of battery left on his phone.
Lucy also revealed that he said he had been cut by a cactus as he made the treacherous journey back.
The 18-year-old then reported Jay as missing to Spanish cops a few hours later – sparking a massive search for the teen.
Lucy was also the one who set up a GoFundMe to raise money for Jay and to help finance the search.
It has since reached over £50,000.
It comes as Jay’s “desperate” family has vowed to continue on their search in Tenerife until the missing teen is found.
Members of his family and a small number of volunteers have been undertaking impromptu foot searches after police halted the official land hunt on June 30.
Jay’s uncle Glen Duncan, 41, has described the family’s situation as “just desperate – despair”.
Jay’s father Warren Slater, 58, questioned the timing saying that they needed all the help they could get to find him.
Despite the criticism, the Guardia Civil say they are continuing at pace to follow up with numerous leads.
The mysterious case of Jay Slater
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
Monday July 8 marked three weeks since Jay Slater, a 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished in Tenerife.
The apprentice bricklayer, who flew out to the popular holiday island for a rave festival with friends Lucy Law and Brad Page, has made headlines around the country.
On Sunday June 16 the three of them headed off to one of the events at Papagayo nightclub.
In the early hours of Monday 17 – Lucy and Brad were ready to head back to their hotel, but Jay wanted to keep partying.
It was then that he left the south of the island and headed to an Airbnb in the northwest with two British men.
The Sun revealed the identity of one of them – convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim, who spent nine years behind bars in the UK.
For days it was thought that the second mystery man went by the name ‘Johnny Vegas’.
On Sunday former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who is out in Tenerife investigating, said Qassim told him he is in fact the man behind the nickname ‘Johnny Vegas’.
We don’t yet know the identity of the second man – who remains a key part of the puzzle in Jay’s mysterious disappearance.
Qassim claims he drove Jay and the friend back to their accommodation and said they all went to sleep.
In the morning he offered to drive the teen back to the Los Cristianos resort after a nap, but Jay, hungry and tired, said he wanted to leave immediately.
Lucy, the last person to speak to Jay, claims she had a panicked call from him soon after he left the holiday let, telling her he was lost and thirsty, his phone was about to die and that he’d been cut by a cactus.
Jay had been seen by the owner of the Airbnb that morning wandering around near the Rural de Teno park – a mountainous region close-by.
He is believed to have been attempting the 11-hour trek back to his hotel, despite the alleged offer of a lift and more buses scheduled for the day.
It was there that his phone last pinged – and he hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
Mark Williams-Thomas has claimed he left the Airbnb quickly, and was “scared”.
Bizarrely, Qassim says he was woken up that morning by a phone call from an unnamed friend of Jay, saying he was “in a ditch” somewhere and had been “cut by a cactus”.
Jay’s friend Lucy claimed to have “tracked down” the two men in the Airbnb after he vanished – quizzing them on the morning of Jay’s disappearance.
Some reports have suggested Lucy knew the two men, although it is not clear how.
She has dubbed his disappearance “weird and suspicious”.
Both men were questioned by Spanish cops on June 17 but quickly deemed “irrelevant” to the investigation and cleared to fly back to the UK.
Police spent almost two weeks searching for Jay in the Tenerife mountains, scouring a 2,000ft ravine, before calling it off on Sunday June 30.
Jay’s family have repeatedly slammed the Spanish investigation into his bizarre disappearance.
His uncle, Glen Duncan, is convinced of “third party involvement”.
And the teen’s devastated dad, Warren Slater, says “everything stinks”
He told The Sun: “My starting position, I’ve said this from day one, ask the two men who’ve taken him – and then start from there.”
A number of unanswered questions remain, over why Jay would have travelled so far with two older men he didn’t know, why said men would have taken him in, and why he braved the Tenerife mountains with no phone battery, water or heat protection for a day-long walk
