Chilling new theory in Jay Slater case details how teen could be ALIVE & boarded yacht before vanishing without trace
A CHILLING new Jay Slater theory has been revealed – speculating the teen could be alive and have boarded a yacht.
The mystery of the teens’ disappearance has deepened after Jay’s last known location on June 17 was thought to be marked by a ping from his cellphone on Tenerife.
After a night of partying on the island, the apprentice bricklayer went to stay with two British men he met at the festival before trying to make the 11-hour walk back to his holiday apartment.
The phone pinged in a remote area in the north of the island not far from the Airbnb but in dry and treacherous landscape.
But a new theory states the Oswaldtwistle bricklayer could possibly not have been with the phone when the tower registered it.
Jay could have thrown his phone into the bushes in order to avoid being found.
He then could have made his way down the nearby Los Gigantes cliffs via a safe route to a nearby jetty.
At that jetty he could have got onto a waiting boat and skipped the island – meaning the teen might be alive and well somewhere else.
The dangerous Los Gigantes cliffs could have proved perilous to the dehydrated teen with a 600m drop down to the ocean at the top.
But if he was able to find a safe path to the the bottom, he could have found a number of coves to have fled the island from.
A local guide has said there is a well-trodden path down to the beach through the Masca ravine, the Daily Mail reported.
A 14ft yacht named the Maruba was also reportedly recorded sailing past Masca beach around the time of Slater’s disappearance.
The last known location of the cellphone was critical to search efforts to find Jay.
Rescue crews focused their search efforts on the 2,000ft Masca ravine in the north of the island.
Police searched for days using drones, sniffer dogs, mountain rescue specialists, in the northern hills of Tenerife around where the phone pinged.
Jay had used the phone to make a desperate phone call to pal Lucy Law saying he was lost, thirsty, his phone was about to die and that he’d been cut by a cactus.
She claims he appeared panicked on the 8.50am call.
The theory comes after claims were made that Jay was involved in the theft of a £12,000 Rolex.
The Rolex disappeared when a fight broke out at the club Jay was partying at with investigators questioning taxi drivers and bar staff present on the strip.
The teen had gone back to a Airbnb with convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim, rather then returning to his apartment in Los Cristianos.
Jay had reportedly decided to try and make the 11-hour trek back to Los Cristianos on foot after he was seemingly unable to catch a bus.
During his rocky walk, Jay phoned Brad before he phoned pal Lucy.
Brad told ITV’s This Morning he didn’t think anything was wrong during their talk.
But he did say he could hear Jay’s feet sliding on the rocks during the chat.
Brad said: “That’s how I knew he went off the road because, you know when you walk on gravel, or whatever it is, you can… you know what I mean, stones.
“We were both, like, laughing about it. He said: ‘look where I am’.”
It comes after The Sun exclusively revealed yesterday that Jay was son unwell while partying hours before vanishing a waiter gave him water.
Jay was seen on video appearing to stagger back to his feet after falling over at Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas, Tenerife.
A hostess at the notorious party venue has told how she saw the apprentice bricklayer looking unsteady on his feet in the early hours of June 17.
She told The Sun: “I remembered Jay, because he was unstable on his feet.
“I gave him some water for free as he didn’t look well.”
Ravers are usually charged three euros for water at the club, which sits on Tenerife’s infamous party strip crammed with tourists.
The search was called off by police on June 30 after two weeks of hunting for the teen in the island.
Cops in Tenerife said officers would continue to investigate the case if any major tip-offs or information comes in.
But his family have carried on the search
The mysterious case of Jay Slater, four weeks on
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
Monday July 15 marks four weeks since Jay Slater, a 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished in Tenerife.
The apprentice bricklayer, who flew out to the popular holiday island for a rave festival with friends Lucy Law and Brad Page, has made headlines around the country.
On Sunday June 16 the three of them headed off to one of the events at Papagayo nightclub.
In the early hours of Monday 17 – Lucy and Brad were ready to head back to their hotel, but Jay wanted to keep partying.
It was then that he left the south of the island and headed to an Airbnb in the northwest with two British men.
The Sun revealed the identity of one of them – convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim, who spent nine years behind bars in the UK.
For days it was thought that the second mystery man went by the name ‘Johnny Vegas’.
On Sunday former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who is out in Tenerife investigating, said Qassim told him he is in fact the man behind the nickname ‘Johnny Vegas’.
We don’t yet know the identity of the second man – who remains a key part of the puzzle in Jay’s mysterious disappearance.
Qassim claims he drove Jay and the friend back to their accommodation and said they all went to sleep.
In the morning he offered to drive the teen back to the Los Cristianos resort after a nap, but Jay, hungry and tired, said he wanted to leave immediately.
Lucy, the last person to speak to Jay, claims she had a panicked call from him soon after he left the holiday let, telling her he was lost and thirsty, his phone was about to die and that he’d been cut by a cactus.
Jay had been seen by the owner of the Airbnb that morning wandering around near the Rural de Teno park – a mountainous region close-by.
He is believed to have been attempting the 11-hour trek back to his hotel, despite the alleged offer of a lift and more buses scheduled for the day.
It was there that his phone last pinged – and he hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
Mark Williams-Thomas has claimed he left the Airbnb quickly, and was “scared”.
Bizarrely, Qassim says he was woken up that morning by a phone call from an unnamed friend of Jay, saying he was “in a ditch” somewhere and had been “cut by a cactus”.
Jay’s friend Lucy claimed to have “tracked down” the two men in the Airbnb after he vanished – quizzing them on the morning of Jay’s disappearance.
Some reports have suggested Lucy knew the two men, although it is not clear how.
She has dubbed his disappearance “weird and suspicious”.
Both men were questioned by Spanish cops on June 17 but quickly deemed “irrelevant” to the investigation and cleared to fly back to the UK.
Police spent almost two weeks searching for Jay in the Tenerife mountains, scouring a 2,000ft ravine, before calling it off on Sunday June 30.
Jay’s family have repeatedly slammed the Spanish investigation into his bizarre disappearance.
His uncle, Glen Duncan, is convinced of “third party involvement”.
And the teen’s devastated dad, Warren Slater, says “everything stinks”
He told The Sun: “My starting position, I’ve said this from day one, ask the two men who’ve taken him – and then start from there.”
A number of unanswered questions remain, over why Jay would have travelled so far with two older men he didn’t know, why said men would have taken him in, and why he braved the Tenerife mountains with no phone battery, water or heat protection for a day-long walk.