Sick Jay Slater trolls selling warped merchandise mocking teen to ghouls on Ebay and Etsy after body found
SICKOS are selling merchandise featuring photos and memes of Jay Slater online less than 24 hours after his body was found.
Products that are too offensive to show include digitally manipulated images of Jay on mugs and warped memes on stickers.
It comes a day after Jay’s body was found in a ” very inaccessible area” of Masca, in the north of Tenerife, 29 days after the teen went missing.
Mugs depicting the 19-year-old are for sale on Ebay for £7 “or best offer” plus £2.94 postage.
Meanwhile on Etsy, stickers are going for £2.34 plus postage of £10.49 with delivery from the US while mugs are priced £6 with £4.49 delivery.
Both online stores appear to be run by the same person who goes by the name Elliot, from Birmingham.
The Sun has reached out to the seller on both platforms and also contacted Ebay and Etsy for comment.
Reps for Ebay told The Sun they were “looking into the seller” and shortly afterwards the seller’s pages were removed.
The sick product pages were still up on Etsy at the time of publication.
It comes as…
- Jay Slater was confirmed dead after body was found after gruelling four-week search
- Jay’s mum said ‘our hearts are broken‘ after ‘beautiful’ son’s body is found
- The body was discovered just yards away from where Jay’s phone last pinged
- Locals say it’s ‘hard to understand’ how Jay’s body got so far into ravine
- Jay’s family believe the missing teen was killed instantly after a horror fall
- Jay’s best pal Lucy Mae Law paid tribute to the ‘happiest person in the room’
- Jay Slater cops scour ‘inaccessible mountain’ for clues after his body found
People cashing in on Jay’s disappearance with sick merchandise will be another blow to the teen’s heartbroken family.
Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan, 55, said confirmation of Jay’s death after a gruelling four-week search was the “worst news”.
She added: “I just can’t believe this could happen to my beautiful boy. Our hearts are broken.”
The teen’s mum is said to be demanding answers after her son’s remains were found just yards from his last known location.
A family source previously said: “It’s the news they have been dreading. She has lots of questions.
“It hasn’t completely sunk in yet. The hardest thing for her is to hear he was found so close to the original search site. It’s hard to take.
“It means it’s entirely possible they have walked past his body whilst searching for him.”
It looks as if he fell from a height so he would most likely have been killed instantly and he wasn’t there for a long time
Family spokesperson
Spanish police also said evidence suggested Jay had “suffered an accident or fall” with Jay’s family believing the teen was killed instantly.
A family spokesman told Mail Online: “The whole family is absolutely broken. They are devastated. It’s not the outcome they were hoping for.
“It looks as if he fell from a height so he would most likely have been killed instantly and he wasn’t there for a long time.”
The body, found with Jay’s clothes and belongings and close to where his mobile phone last pinged, was formally identified as the teenager’s on Tuesday.
The family are hoping they can bring his body back to the UK in the next week or so and a postmortem will be held both in Tenerife and back home.
Friends of Jay have paid tribute to the “happiest person in the room” following the news of the body being found and posted heartbreaking videos of him dancing online.
Despite the tragic discovery, mystery continues to surround the case – with Spanish cops refusing to reveal the exact location where Jay’s body was found.
The apprentice bricklayer had travelled to Tenerife from Lancashire to go to the NRG festival on June 16.
He left the rave with two men he’d met on the holiday to stay at their Airbnb in a remote area in the north of the island.
After leaving the property the morning after the rave, Jay missed the bus and decided to walk 10 hours back to his own accommodation.
One of the men he had been with – convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim – said Jay left the house alive.
In one of his last phone calls to his friend Lucy Law, Jay told her he only had one percent charge left on his phone, needed water and had cut his leg on a cactus.
Lucy raised the alarm and later started a Gofundme page on behalf of Jay’s family in a bid to help the search.
So far more than £56,000 has been raised.
The family had said they were using some of the money to fund specialist search teams. It is not yet known how they will spend the rest.
The case captured the imaginations of online sleuths, many of whom chose to ignore the facts and spread wild conspiracy theories on his disappearance.
Police revealed how they had to search in secret over fears amateur sleuths who had travelled to Tenerife would disrupt their operation.
The family were also plagued by online trolls who hacked Jay’s Instagram page.
TIMELINE OF THE TRAGEDY
THE grim discovery of a body comes after weeks of agony for Jay’s friends and family. Here is how the events unfolded:
Sunday, June 16: Jay and his friends party at the last day of NRG music festival being held at Papagayo night club in Playa de la Americas, Tenerife.
June 17 3-6am: Jay leaves with Ayub Qassim and another man for a £40-a-night Airbnb 23 miles away in the village of Masca.
7.30am: Jay shares a photo on Snapchat standing at doorway of the Airbnb.
8.50am: He calls pal Lucy Mae Law and says he is “lost in the middle of nowhere” with no water, a cut to his leg and one per cent on his phone.
Tuesday, June 18: Pals search area but no sign of Jay. Local cops and mountain rescue teams start official search. Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan flies to Tenerife.
June 19-20: Spanish police deploy drones, dogs and a helicopter, but find no trace. Search moves to Los Cristianos amid possible sighting, but it is ruled out and they return to Rural de Teno, near Masca.
June 21: Lancashire Police offer support but it is declined.
June 22: Mum Debbie issues emotional appeal to Jay saying “We just need you home.”
June 24: Claims of Jay sighting in Santiago del Teide — near to where he disappeared — and family believe a grainy CCTV image could be of him.
June 25: Debbie issues plea for her son to come home as more friends fly out and TV investigator Mark Williams- Thomas joins search.
June 29: Cops rule Mr Qassim, and other man at Airbnb, out of investigation.
June 30: Spanish cops officially suspend hunt but say probe “remains open”. His family continue to search.
Yesterday: A body is found by helicopter search team close to where his phone last pinged. His possessions are discovered next to human remains. Spanish cops say it points to an “accidental fall”.
