Jay Slater ‘might not be lacking’ as ex-cop claims ‘issues simply do not add up’
A fresh investigation into the disappearance of Jay Slater is needed to iron out any ‘inconsistencies’, claims an ex-copper who says the teen might not actually be missing.
The 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, went missing in Tenerife on June 17 after attending a weekend rave with his friends.
Following a near two-week manhunt for the teen, which included mountain rescue teams, sniffer dogs, drones, and social media sleuths jetting out to the holiday hotspot, police have now officially called off the search.
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However, a new bombshell theory by former copper and policing commentator Graham Wettone, who worked at the Met for 30 years, suggests the teen might not be missing at all.
Speaking to MailOnline, Wettone branded the case as ‘bizarre’, arguing there are ‘lots of things that just don’t add up’.
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“There are so many inconsistencies in what I am seeing and reading,” he said. “I think the Spanish police need to take a step back and think ‘Why did he go missing where he did and in what circumstances?’
“Were there any patterns forming that would point to him wandering off? The fact he is said to have done that just doesn’t square with me. Was there anything sinister and untoward there, that would have made him go off with these two men? Is there anything in his past that needs looking at more fully?”
Wettone suggests Spanish police should begin looking down ‘other avenues’ including ‘criminality’. He has also urged police to re-question all witnesses involved in the case as he doesn’t believe many of them are ‘telling the truth’.
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“After this length of time and with nothing being found you have to ask is he even there and he is perhaps somewhere else?” he added. “The fact no body or evidence of him up there has been found would start leading me to another avenue, I’d even be asking are we sure he was up there in the first place.”
The ex-cop says to get to the bottom of the conspiracy theory-riddled case, Spanish police should re-trace the days leading up to Slater’s disappearance, including checking his bank accounts for anything ‘untoward’.
Slater’s mum Debbie Duncan described her son as her ‘gorgeous, beautiful baby’, adding: “He’s just an all-round nice, bubbly guy with hundreds of friends who love being in his company.”
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