SICK MESSAGE
Missing Jay Slater’s mum sent horror Snapchat saying ‘kiss goodbye to your son’ as she fears kidnapping in Tenerife
Officers searched the room Jay was sharing with a friend at a three-star apartment complex in Los Cristianos
JAY Slater's heartbroken mum received a sickening Snapchat message about her son as his family fears the teen may have been kidnapped.
A huge search effort is underway for the Brit teen, who has now been missing for three days, as his loved ones fear he could have been taken against his will.
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The 19-year-old, from Lancashire, disappeared on Monday morning while on holiday with two friends.
He left a rave in Tenerife on Sunday night with two new pals he'd met that evening - and was last heard from around 8.30am the next day.
Jay's worried mum Debbie Duncan has now shared the twisted Snapchat she was sent when she touched down in Tenerife on Tuesday - telling her to "kiss goodbye to your son".
Cops, who promised to keep an "open mind" about his disappearance yesterday, are now searching the teen's hotel room.
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Speaking on Wednesday evening from southern Tenerife an emotional Debbie said: “I haven’t slept since all this began and I’ve no plans to go up to the search site right now.
“I just want to be here for if he does turn up but I’ve got a bad feeling. I’m being warned there’s a lot of bad people in Tenerife.
I got a Snapchat about 10 minutes after I got off the plane saying ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money'
Debbie Duncan
“I just think he’s being held against his will. He’s not a stupid lad. He wouldn’t have gone walking down bloody mountains.
“There’s a road there with tourists and buses and properties, He’s not that daft.
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“I got a Snapchat about 10 minutes after I got off the plane saying ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.’"
It comes as...
- Jay, 19, was first reported missing on Monday after vanishing on his way home from a rave the night before
- His stepdad Andy said Jay is "no mug" but could've taken a wrong turn on a 10-hour walk back to his hotel
- Mum Debbie was told by cops at 2am on Tuesday to catch the first flight to Tenerife
- She was later
- A Coronation Street star with a connection to Jay's family published an appeal for help to find him
- Jay's posted a Snapchat the night before he vanished showing him smiling with friends
- His friend Lucy described the teen's disappearance as "suspicious and weird" as cops vowed to keep an "open mind"
Officers entered the room he was sharing with a pal at a three-star apartment complex in Los Cristianos on Wednesday.
Apprentice bricklayer Jay, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, was booked on a flight back to the UK this morning.
But Debbie, who has now been joined in Tenerife by Jay’s dad Warren, said she has his passport and isn't expecting him to reappear in time to catch his plane.
She has been staying at another apartment in the same complex Jay had booked into although she is due to move to new accommodation on Thursday.
Jay Slater’s last Snapchat shows him smiling before going missing in Tenerife – as pal reveals his final panicked call
Debbie added: “Police have been into Jay’s room today. I’ve been in his room as well.
“But everything of Jay's was neatly hung up, it’s just a normal room and there’s nothing untoward there.
“His passport was there along with all his euros which I’ve got now.
“I’m not sure he had any money on him when he made that last call to his friend Lucy on Monday morning before he vanished."
Debbie, who previously told how sick trolls were calling her up claiming to have kidnapped her son, said "no ransom demand [has] come in yet".
She said of the creepy Snapchat: “There’s been that many prank calls that I don’t know whether that was one but I’m passing on information to police that I think could be relevant and I thought that could be.
“For me it's just a question of sitting and waiting and hoping that tomorrow they’ll be good news.”
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Coronation Street star's plea for help
By Anita Markoff, TV reporter
VICKY Entwhistle, who used to play Janice Battersby on ITV soap Coronation Street, shared a heartbreaking post on Tuesday as the search continues for missing teen Jay Slater.
Vicky shared one of the missing posters circulating online, adding: "My God Mother’s Grandson has gone missing. His Mother has flown out 7pm. To join the police search.
"Hope to God they find him. Please pray for him."
Fans flocked to the comments to offer reassurance, with one saying: "Saw this on Facebook Vicky, it seems to be getting shared far and wide, hopefully there will be some good news imminently with all the love and support out there, just makes it so much harder when abroad! Love and prayers for you all."
Another offered: "We are in Tenerife if we can help in any way let us know."
LATEST PLEA
In her latest appeal for information, a distraught Debbie spoke to ITN on Wednesday evening.
She said: "It's a nightmare. It's just an absolute living nightmare.
“I wouldn't wish this on anybody. I just want my baby back. Please, just anybody who can help just look for him.
“There's a massive area up there, massive. It's over 48 hours now since he last had any contact with anybody.
“He's out there somewhere, or somebody knows where he is. We just need to find my baby."
Jay was on his first holiday abroad this past weekend, which his mum happily encouraged him to take - while still warning him to stay vigilant.
Debbie said: "First holiday abroad, saving up, looking forward to this event, three-day DJs from everywhere, absolutely buzzing about it.
"Now I just wish I hadn't have encouraged him to go, I should have said ''don't go to Tenerife'.
“I said to him as well, I said ''Jay please have your wits about you, you're in a foreign country, just stay together''."
'SUSPICIOUS'
Lucy Mae, the last person to speak to Jay before he vanished, fought back tears on Wednesday as she said: “There’s something weird going on. It is suspicious. In two days you’re telling me someone’s not seen him.
“There’s a restaurant 10 minutes away that he would have seen or walked past. It’s suspicious and it’s weird."
Lucy told The Sun that her friend "isn't stupid" and he called her from an area "full of hikers" in "broad daylight".
She added: “Fair enough it didn’t open for another two hours but if that were me I would have sat and waited at the restaurant till it opened.
"As soon as it opened I would have said, ‘Please can you put my phone on charge’ and then I would have rung someone, I would have rung a taxi."
SEARCH OPERATION
The mammoth search for Jay enters its fourth day today as around 15 family members have flown out to the holiday island to chip in.
But valuable hours were wasted on Wednesday when cops moved the operation to the other side of Tenerife after a false sighting.
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Mountain rescue were told around midday to leave the hills where Jay was last seen and move to the southern tourist resorts of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas.
The huge search operation was later moved back near the village of Masca in northwestern Tenerife after the report turned out to be false.
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