Two lacking Brits women discovered trapped in automobile close to Jay Slater search website
A pair of British girls – one of them a baby – have been rescued after being found “abandoned” in a car in Tenerife.
Arona local police said the duo were saved after a local resident in Las Galletas, Tenerife noticed a white Volkswagen Polo rental car parked directly in the sun – just an hour away from the search site for missing British teenager Jay Slater.
Upon closer inspection, the 34-year-old found two girls inside it with the windows closed. Police claim the eldest girl, seven, said their father left them there while he had gone to have a haircut in a nearby shopping centre, but the girls refused to leave even though they could unlock the car from the inside.
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The woman called emergency services. Officers tried to search the shopping centre for the father having found documents relating to him in the car alongside a bag containing yoghurts and juices after the girls allowed him access to the vehicle.
A 38-year-old man was questioned but initially denied being connected to the children.
The girls were then taken to the Nuestra Señora de la Paz Maternal Centre in La Laguna after an order was made by the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office – only for the 38-year old to later claim responsibility for the car. He then fled the premises.
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Another man, thought to be a 35-year-old from Poland, later arrived and claimed to be a friend of the girls’ father. After a police investigation, a 27-year-old British woman was later verified as the mother of the girls and police handed them over to her.
The 38-year-old is still missing and a warrant is out for his arrest.
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