Jay Slater replace as forensics cops search condo the place he spent last evening

Cops have been to the apartment where Jay Slater stayed the night before he vanished.

The two officers, dressed in plain clothes, left the holiday rental home wearing forensic style blue slip-ons over their shoes this morning (July 2). They were spotted speaking to a local who had let them into the property in Masca, Tenerife.

Jay, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancs., had travelled with two British men to the property after partying at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas.

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He was seen leaving the apartment at around 8am on June 17.

The apprentice bricklayer called his friend Lucy Law to tell her he was in the middle of nowhere with 1% on his phone battery.

It is more than 20 miles from the Los Cristianos apartment where he had been staying.

Police have said the two British men, who were spoken to by Spanish officers before flying back to the UK, have “no relevance” to the investigation.

Jay’s mum Debbie has pleaded with the Spanish police not to “give up” on her son.

A source close to the family said they are in constant contact with them about the case.

Spain’s Civil Guard carried out a search over the weekend in the village of Masca. Officials in Tenerife said no criminal activity has been linked with the disappearance.

Meanwhile, a mystery pair of sunglasses found by a TikTok sleuth during the search for Jay Slater were “thrown” on purpose, it has been claimed.

TikTokker Paul Arnott, 29, took to the platform to share details about a new clue, found by a bloke called “Chris”, and said: “There’s two bits of information I’m going off, one of which is a ‘three word’ GPS, and the other is going to be a pair of sunglasses that were found by a man called Chris.”

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