Brit cops STILL haven’t quizzed Jay Slater’s mystery holiday pals including ‘Johnny Vegas’ who could hold key to case
BRITISH cops say they have still not quizzed two men who hosted Jay Slater at their Airbnb before he disappeared, The Sun can reveal.
The 19-year-old has been missing for more than a week after he disappeared on a mountain range in Tenerife.
He travelled to the rural village of Masca in the early hours of June 17 with two men that he met at NRG music festival.
The holidaymakers were quizzed by local cops at the small cottage before they travelled back to Luton Airport.
Both men are said to hail from Luton, Bedfordshire. One has the nickname ‘Johnny Vegas’.
A woman identified only as Araceli, who works in the cafe next to the rental property, told reporters: “They came in for cafe con leche a couple of times.
“One was aged about 40. The other one was slightly younger.”
Cops in the UK revealed they have no intention of speaking with the men, despite growing concerns over Jay.
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Lancashire Constabulary, whose offer of assistance was refused by local cops, said it will not pursue the tourists.
Bedfordshire Police, which looks after Luton Airport, will not seek to speak with the men, alongside London’s Met.
Fears for Jay continued to grow, as authorities scoured Rural de Teno national park, dubbed the ‘Badlands’ by locals.
Guarda Civil visited the mayor’s office in the town of Santiago del Teide to collect CCTV images which could be Jay.
A grainy image was shared with Jay’s distraught father, who visited the town on Monday to hand out missing posters.
Warren Slater, 58, told The Sun: “One minute he’s here, the next minute he’s not. It doesn’t make sense.
“You think to yourself, has somebody got him? Because no matter if you were drunk you don’t go off that road up there.
“It is a living hell, unless you’re going through it, you cannot explain.”
A possible sighting was made to cops in the town, with a man reporting seeing Jay on a bench 10 hours after he vanished.
The owner of the Airbnb where the two men stayed said she had given all the information she had to the police.
Ofelia Hernandez revealed they were friendly, booked several days at the cottage, and spent a lot of time inside the property.
Questions are now being asked why the males have not spoken out about the events leading up to the teenager leaving.
Jay, of Oswaldtwistle, Lancs, called pal Lucy Law at around 8.30am and told her he was thirsty and his phone would die.
The treacherous walk from Jay’s last-known location to his own accommodation would have taken about 11 hours on foot.
Spanish police are investigating apprentice bricklayer Jay’s background to determine whether it is relevant to his disappearance.
A spokesman told us: “We are not going to give out any information on what the Civil Guard is doing during this investigation – which is running parallel to the search operation near the area Jay Slater was last seen in.
“We are investigating everything as we do in any investigation and not discounting anything, while the search which officers are focused on at the moment is ongoing.”
Meanwhile former British cop Mark Williams-Thomas arrived in Tenerife to help Jay’s family locate their son.
The investigator has probed a string of high-profile missing persons cases, including Nicola Bulley’s disappearance.
Asked if cops were considering conspiracy theories around Jay, a local police source said: “Yes, of course it is being investigated.
“From the beginning they have been considering all possibilities, but this issue is being handled directly by the judicial police.”
Timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
SUNDAY JUNE 16 – MONDAY 17
Jay goes to a rave at the 2024 NRG music festival in Tenerife, around Arona on the south of the island
8.35pm – Jay posts a smiling Snapchat video of him laughing with friends
He leaves the rave with two men he met that day and is driven back to their accommodation across the island
MONDAY 17
7.30am – Jay posts a Snapchat of a hand holding a cigarette in the area where the accommodation was – near the rural de Teno Park on the north of the island
8.30am – Jay calls his friend Lucy Law and tells her he missed a bus, had one per cent of battery left on his phone and was stuck in the “middle of nowhere”
9am – A missing persons report is filed and the search for Jay begins
TUESDAY 18
2am – Police knock on the door of Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan’s home and tell her to catch the first flight out to Tenerife
7am – She flies out from Manchester Airport alongside her son Zak to help with the search
Debbie is sent a Snapchat message saying “Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.”
WEDNESDAY 19
12.30pm – Police move the search to the south of the island briefly after a false sighting
Cops search his hotel room for clues as his mum says there was “nothing untoward there”
Debbie gives a heart-wrenching interview where she shares fears he has been “taken” and says “I just want my baby back”
THURSDAY 20
Cops begin day four of the massive search for Jay
FRIDAY 21
Lancashire cops offer to help with the search but Tenerife authorities say they are “satisfied that they have the resources they need”
Search turns to 22,000ft ravine in Masca – part of an area dubbed “the badlands” by locals
SATURDAY 22
The sixth day of the search begins with sniffer dogs, cops, mountain rescue and firefighters again taking to the hills in northern Tenerife
Possible new sighting of Jay places him near a church with two men at 6pm on Monday – although unconfirmed by police
Jay’s dad Warren and brother Zak visit the search site in Tenerife
SUNDAY 23
Cops focus their search around small outbuildings in de Teno park near where Jay’s phone last pinged
Jay’s mum Debbie says trolls are comparing her to Karen Matthews
The GoFundMe set up by Jay’s friend Lucy surpasses £30,000 after just three days
Exclusive Sun footage shows Jay appearing to fall and stumble back up at a rave before he vanished
MONDAY 24
Search for Jay enters eighth day
Police expand search area north to parts of Buenavista del Norte
Jay’s dad says his family are in ‘a living hell’