Less than one week after a TikTok sleuth made a bold claim about the whereabouts of Jay Slater and what happened to him, local Spanish police appear to have confirmed it.
Slater went missing on June 17 after travelling from a rave to the remote Airbnb in the mountains of Tenerife with two men. Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire had posted a Snapchat video of himself at the Casa Abuela Tina, near the village of Masca, shortly before making his last phone call to pal Lucy Mae Law before he disappeared.
The search for the him was officially called off two weeks ago, nearly two weeks after he went missing, and his last known location was half a mile north of Masca village – yet a TikTok sleuth claimed he was still there just five days ago.
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Known online as ChristopherTenerife – or just Chris – the ex-pat Brit posted a video of himself search a large section of the mountainous region in Masca.
During the clip, he claimed that there was “no way” it was searched properly, and added: “I don’t buy into the conspiracy theories, I don’t buy into someone took Jay. When you come and stand on this terrain, if that lad was heading for the coast I honestly think he’s had a bit of misfortune.
“He’s had a fall, he’s had an accident or he’s dehydrated and passed out. I feel he’s in this ravine, in this area of Tenerife . . . missing – I honestly believe that.”
(Image: tiktok@christophertenerife)
And in the Guardia Civil statement released earlier today, it has been confirmed that the “lifeless body of a young man” was found in the Masca area, and that it appeared as if the person had “suffered an accident”.
They stated: “”Given the complexity of the case, the discovery has been possible thanks to the incessant and discreet search carried out by the Civil Guard during these 29 days, in which the natural space was preserved so that it would not be filled with curious onlookers.
“All indications indicate that it could be the young British man who has been missing since June 17 in the absence of full identification. The first investigations reveal that he could have suffered an accident fall in the inaccessible area where he was found.”
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