The mother of Jay Slater has revealed how she was sent sickening images claiming to show her beloved son being held captive.
Vile trolls sent suffering mum Debbie Duncan one image that appeared to show Jay with a gash under his eye and a chain around his neck. A message attached is understood to have said, “we have your son”.
Debbie, 56, has since revealed to the Sun how the brutal barrages of trolling started soon after her lad’s disappearance in Tenerife on June 17. Grim messages, letters and pictures were all sent to the distressed mother, including those of the fake kidnapping.
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The horrific doctored snaps show a young man with his likeness, no top on, blood under his right eye and coming from the left corner of his mouth.
The man in the image has a despondent look on his face and what appears to be a dog collar around his neck.
In another message trolling Debbie, it says: “I’ll give you one warning, your son won’t be coming back. He owes us enough f*****g g money kiss goodbye to him.
She is understood to have been left in floods of tears as she claimed she received thousands of messages and videos.
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She told the outlets: “I wanted to believe that he’d been chained up – because at least that way I knew that he would still be breathing somewhere. I wanted to believe he’d been kidnapped and he was being held, because I thought, well, that would mean he’s alive somewhere.
“You know, anything. As horrible as it was, I just thought, well, he might be breathing somewhere.”
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Conspiracy theories circulated wildly during the search, which lasted 29 days, and Debbie admitted she and her family got pulled into some of them. But even since his body was found on July 15, Debbie claims the trolling has not stopped.
She said she has been “terrorised” and despite her best efforts to keep them out, has not been able to.
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