Nicola Bulley TV sleuth lands in Tenerife to assist Jay Slater search
The detective-turned-TV investigator who probed the disappearance of Nicola Bulley has arrived in Tenerife to help the family of missing British teenager Jay Slater.
Mark Williams-Thomas, who also exposed Jimmy Savile‘s evil crimes, was today spotted on the Spanish island where the 19-year-old was last seen on June 17.
The TV sleuth is believed to have landed in Tenerife on Monday night – 24 hours after he ‘reached out’ to Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan to ‘get her answers as to what happened to him’.
Jay, an apprentice bricklayer, disappeared last Monday after going to the three-day NRG music festival on the Spanish island – sparking a major investigation which has been subjected to wild unfounded conspiracy theories.
Mr Williams-Thomas previously said it would take him three days to get answers for the family – while he also vowed to ‘track down’ the two men that Jay left a rave with and went back to their Airbnb before going missing.
Mark Williams-Thomas (pictured), who probed Nicola Bulley’s disappearance and exposed Jimmy Savile ‘s evil crimes, was today spotted on the Spanish island where the 19-year-old was last seen on June 17
Jay, an apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished on Tenerife on Monday June 17
Before landing in Tenerife, he told Manchester Evening News: ‘Having feet on the ground and looking at the scenario and circumstances, I know I will get to the bottom of this in three days.
‘I would quickly be able to establish whether or not there are suspicious circumstances – but I’d need total access to everything and to speak to all the witnesses involved.’
He said it was crucial for the family to work with him to get answers and that he would need to speak to ‘every witness involved’.
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.
The Mirror reports that he landed in Tenerife on Monday evening – the same day Jay’s family shared new CCTV of a possible fresh sighting of Jay.
The grainy CCTV is taken close to a church in Santiago de Teide, San Fernando Rey, where Jay’s mother told MailOnline on Saturday that a man has come forward to say he saw someone matching her son’s description sitting on a bench with two men.
The sighting has not been confirmed by local police, who say ‘nothing has been ruled out and nothing has been ruled in’, as they continue to focus their efforts on a ravine near where he was last seen.
The CCTV is from around 6pm last Monday – nearly ten hours after his phone last pinged in the Rural de Teno Park at 8.50am.
The last confirmed sighting of Jay was in the village of Masca at around 8am by a woman who had told him the bus back to his accommodation was due at 10am when he asked. She saw him set off on foot for a journey and later drove past him ‘walking fast’.
The teenager was last heard from at around 8.30am when he called his friend Lucy Mae Law to say he was walking back to his accommodation after missing the bus. He told her he was ‘lost in the mountains with one per cent battery and no water’.
The walk from where Jay’s phone last pinged in the national park to his accommodation would have taken about 11 hours on foot.
The hunt for Jay took a fresh turn over the weekend after another Briton was dramatically saved by Spanish police during their search for the missing teenager.
A ‘tired and disoriented’ Scottish hiker was rescued from a ravine in the Los Carrizales neighbourhood, near the Rural de Teno national park where Jay’s phone last pinged.
Police said that when the 51-year-old man failed to return to the start point of his walk after several hours, locals alerted mountain rescue teams who were ‘at those moments in the search for the missing young man, Jay Slater’.
They said the hiker was found in a ‘difficult’ area that is ‘not suitable for travel’ on Friday, adding: ‘Tired and disoriented, he was located by the agents and the rescue team who helped him get out of the ravine.
‘We want to thank these neighbours for giving alert to this situation because due to the difficulty and lack of communication in the area, this hiker would not have managed to get out by his own means without the help received.’
Local police in Buenavista del Norte alongside the Civil Protection mountain rescue team located the hiker in the Asomada Canyon.
Jay’s father accused the Spanish police of keeping the family in the dark over the search for the missing British teenager.
The detective-turned-TV investigator who helped Jimmy Savile ‘s evil crimes today offered to help Jay Slater’s mother find her missing son in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday
A search team near the last known location of Jay Slater, near to the village of Masca
On Friday, Spanish police (pictured) managed to rescue a 51-year-old Scottish hiker who got lost near the same national park that they are searching for Jay in
Warren Slater said that although some officers had been ‘brilliant’, he was becoming increasingly frustrated by the lack of communication from others as he desperately tries to find his 19-year-old son.
‘Nobody’s told us,’ he told reporters. ‘The mountain police [have been] brilliant… but I don’t know how the other police [force] works.
‘They could be doing everything but if they are doing [something], they’re not telling us what they’re doing, if you understand what I’m saying.’
Choking back tears as he investigated a new possible CCTV sighting of Jay, he later told Sky News: ‘I’m his dad, I’m supposed to be able to do something for him.’
Last night, Debbie told MailOnline: ‘It’s been a week now and it’s been awful. I’ve barely slept and I’m at my wits end.
‘The Spanish police are doing a good job and we are getting updated from the consulate so we just put our faith in them.
‘I know people in the UK have come forward as well who were at the festival and they are giving details of what they know but I’m not being told about that.
‘Jay’s very good friends from home have also been over and have put up posters. They are good kids and like me just want him home.’
The last confirmed sighting of Jay (pictured) was at around 8am last Monday by a woman who had told him the bus was due at 10am when he asked
Warren Slater (pictured with Jay’s brother Zack) said although some officers had been ‘brilliant’, he was becoming increasingly frustrated by the lack of communication from others as he desperately tries to find his 19-year-old son
Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan (pictured) flew to Tenerife on Tuesday, the day after he vanished in Tenerife
Lucy Mae Law (pictured), 18, received a call from Jay before he went missing
It also emerged on Monday that Spanish police are investigating Jay’s background to determine whether it is ‘relevant’ to his disappearance.
Detectives on the holiday island are trying to determine whether Jay’s disappearance is linked to his criminal past after the Spanish press revealed that he was previously involved in a machete attack that left a man fighting for his life.
Jay was part of an eight strong gang who split the skull of Tom Hilton after he was attacked with a machete, golf clubs and an axe.
Mr Hilton was left with injuries to his head which left his skull exposed as well as wounds to his shoulders and legs in the 2021 attack when he was 17 in Rishton, Lancashire.
