Nicola Bulley TV sleuth claims Jay Slater’s mum ‘eager to simply accept assist’

The detective-turned-TV investigator who probed the disappearance of Nicola Bulley has claimed that Jay Slater’s mother is ‘keen to accept my team’s help’.

Mark Williams-Thomas, who also exposed Jimmy Savile‘s evil crimes, has offered his expertise as the hunt for the missing 19-year-old who vanished after leaving a Tenerife nightclub enters its second week.

Jay, an apprentice bricklayer, disappeared last Monday after going to a three-day energy music festival on the Spanish island – sparking a major investigation which has been subjected to wild conspiracy theories online. 

Mr Williams-Thomas, who revealed he had ‘reached out’ to Jay’s mother, Debbie Duncan, yesterday has now given an update on X/Twitter.

He wrote: ‘Brief update: Jay Slater’s family clearly struggling with all the media interest and attention, have switched off all phones and cut contact. I am awaiting to speak to mum later today, but have had a response from close relative that mum is keen to accept my team’s help. 

‘Having worked with many families at crisis point when a child goes missing the loved ones become the eye of the storm and it’s very very tough for them to manage all the enquiries on top of there own stress & worry.’  

Mr Williams-Thomas was previously lead investigator on the ITV Exposure documentary, The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, which revealed how the late BBC presenter systematically and disturbingly preyed upon young and vulnerable girls.

He also offered help earlier this year when mother-of-two Ms Bulley, 45, went missing while walking her dog in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire, before her body was later discovered and an inquest ruled she had accidentally drowned.

His latest intervention comes amid wild speculation online and TikTok sleuths flying from Britain to Tenerife to join the search.

At least five British nationals have spent hundreds of pounds on making the trip despite having no link to Jay.

Paul Arnott, 29, who runs the Down the Rapids TikTok account and describes himself as an ‘explorer’, spent £400 on travelling to Tenerife on Saturday from Fort William, in Scotland.

He told The Telegraph: ‘It’s cost quite a few hundred pounds so far. I’ve been trying to contact mountain rescue all day but I haven’t been able to get through to anyone.’

He added: ‘The idea is ideally to communicate with mountain rescue and the police and if I can’t get a response then I’ll do my own thing in hits area and try and work out where’s not been searched.’ 

Mr Arnott said he would want someone to come out and help if the same thing had happened to him. 

It comes as search teams have narrowed their efforts on small buildings close to where his phone last pinged in Tenerife.

Officers from the Guardia Civil in the Canary Islands could be seen circling two structures at the bottom of a ravine in Rural de Teno Park on Sunday.

Efforts appeared to be solely focused on the one area after days of searches in the village of Masca and the surrounding landscape.

Those conducting the searches on the seventh day of the hunt for Jay could be seen looking into blue barrels outside one of the small buildings.

Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus.

He had attended the NRG music festival on the island with two friends before his disappearance.

Lucy Mae Law, who went to the festival with Jay, said he called her at about 8.30am last Monday and told her he was ‘lost in the mountains, he wasn’t aware of his surroundings, he desperately needed a drink and his phone was on 1%’.

The walk from Jay’s last known location to his accommodation would have taken about 11 hours on foot.

Lucy has blasted the Spanish police, claiming they are ‘not doing a good job’ as Jay’s family and friends desperately try to find him.

Police are currently searching for Jay in the Teno Nature Reserve, referred to as ‘malpais’ by locals — a word that translates into English as ‘badland’.

In a statement released late on Friday, Lancashire Police said it had ‘made an offer of support to the Guardia Civil’ but this was declined after local cops said they were ‘satisfied that they have the resources they need’.

Lucy blasted: ‘We are having to do this all by ourselves as Spanish police are not doing a good enough job.

‘They don’t even speak English. It’s been a very slow process here so we need the British police to come out and help them.’

She told of wanting to ‘bring him home to his family’, adding: ‘That is all we want, all that we need.’

When asked how she felt that the offer from British cops to help had been declined, Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan told MailOnline: ‘I had a screaming and shouting day when I had the meeting with the police. 

‘I know the Spanish police mean well, but the problem we are having is the language barrier, we just don’t seem to be getting told. I’m sure they are doing their best.

‘They told me they had used dogs and drones and then they said Lancashire police had offered their resources but they turned it down, but I think that would have really helped.

‘I would feel happier if our people were over helping. It’s just so difficult not knowing where he is, the area and the terrain is rough, but the police were saying that now there are too many people up there and it could interfere with their investigation.

Meanwhile, Jay’s distraught father Warren, 58, has fought back tears as he told of just wanting ‘my boy back’ as he and Jay’s brother Zak, 24, visited the spot where his phone last pinged and hugged each other in emotional scenes.

Choking back tears Warren, wearing a bucket hat, sunglasses and black t shirt, said: ‘He’s my son. I just want him back.’

The visit came as a bombshell new video of missing Jay dancing shirtless in a Tenerife nightclub just hours before he disappeared has emerged.

In the new clip of Jay which has emerged, he is seen dancing shirtless in Papagayo nightclub which is at the end me of the notorious Veronica’s Strip area of Playa de las Americas.

The after-party is known to have wrapped up at 5am and an hour later Jay was with two mystery British men at their £40-a-night AirBnB 19 miles away at Masca.

It was here that a woman made the last confirmed sighting of Jay at about 8.15am, saying he was walking at pace up the hill and away from Playa de las Americas.

Debbie, 55, who has flown out to Tenerife from her home at Oswaldtwistle, told MailOnline there had been a sighting of someone resembling her son at around 6pm the day he disappeared by the church at Santiago de Teide which is back towards Playa de las Americas.

She said the man had told police he was ‘with two men sitting on a bench by the church looking a little worse for wear’ however at the moment it has not been confirmed this was Jay.

Jay’s mother still believes that he may have been kidnapped.

She has vowed to stay in Tenerife for ‘as long as it takes’.

A GoFundMe page set up to raise funds for Jay’s family hit its target of £30,000 just three days after being set up. 

In a statement on the site, Debbie thanked everyone who had donated for their ‘generosity and kindness during this difficult time’.

She added: ‘I just wanted to confirm that this is the only GoFundMe fundraiser approved by our family.

‘We have not yet withdrawn any funds and are currently covering the expenses, such as the trip to Tenerife and accommodation, ourselves.

‘The funds will remain on hold with GoFundMe until we post a further update on this page.

‘We are extremely worried and are doing everything we can to find Jay.

‘Please continue to share our fundraiser far and wide. Your support means the world to us, and we are grateful for any help you can provide.

‘Thank you again.’