It wasn’t long after Jay Slater disappeared that the internet turned on his pal, Lucy Mae Law.
Her account of what happened has been heavily scrutinised by an army of online sleuths convinced she has something to hide. It was Lucy who was the last known person to speak to the 19-year-old who told her he was lost, thirsty and had 1% phone battery, before vanishing without trace in Tenerife.
But since then a swathe of conspiracy theories have surfaced forcing one of his mates to speak out declaring: “We ain’t drug mules.”
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It comes as convicted drug dealer, Ayub Qassim admitted he let Jay stay at his Airbnb but said that the teen “arrived alive and left alive.”
Jay’s best friend, Brad Hargreaves who he flew out with has even been virtually attacked and hit back saying: “We ain’t drug mules or whatever…. people need to know the facts before talking s*** on the internet…”
Meanwhile, Lucy has deactivated her Facebook account. But it hasn’t stopped armchair detectives rooting out one of her old ones, spamming it with hate and dubbing her ‘Lu-ci-fer.’
In a two-year-old status asking if anyone is selling a ticket for Leeds Festival, one twisted user pretending to be Jay Slater himself, wrote: “Please Lucy, find me,” and “Just tell them the truth.”
Another troll wrote: “Oy, Lucy Mae, Lucy Mae Law, Lucy Law, Lucy Mae New – what’s with all the names? Why did you not want to show your face on TV? But it’s all over here, and your account you got rid of? Why not tell the truth, your story changed so much. Time to stop all your jollies now, and go where you belong!”
The inactive account is filled with images that appear to be Lucy, most of them edited with Snapchat filters. It states that she is from Burnley in Lancashire, and is single.
Lucy had been with Jay and Jay’s best friend, Brad Hargreaves at Papagayo nightclub on June 16 during the NRG music festival in Tenerife before the Lancs teen went back to a remote Airbnb with two British unknown men.
She said he had called her around 8am the following morning telling her he’d missed the bus and was making the 11-hour journey back on foot. He said he was lost “in the middle of nowhere,” he was thirsty, had cut his leg and his phone battery was about to die.
His phone last pinged in Rural deTeno park, a sparse parkland area on the north-west of the island. Lucy described his disappearance as “weird and suspicious” and set up a GoFundMe page which has since raised over £50k.
Earlier this week she broke her silence on Instagram for the first time in weeks with a crypric message which fuelled more mystery. She uploaded a selfie of her and Jay along with a crying emoji and a blue love heart but soon afterwards, it was removed.
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