Investigator who probed Nicola Bulley case says he can get Jay Slater's family answers 'in three days'

A TV investigator and former police officer has offered to fly out to Tenerife to help find answers 'in three days' for the family of missing 19-year-old Jay Slater.

The Oswaldtwistle teenager was reported missing last Monday (June 17) after he called his friend Lucy Law, telling her he was lost in a rural area with his phone battery down to just one percent. His phone later 'pinged' half a mile north of Masca village.

Emergency services, including the Civil Guard, mountain rescue team and fire crews, are tirelessly searching a 30-kilometre area in the Rural de Teno park, a landscape filled with steep mountains and ravines. Experienced investigator Mark Williams-Thomas announced that he had reached out to Jay's mum Debbie Duncan to "get her answers as to what happened".

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Speaking to the M.E.N, Mark, who investigated the disappearance of Nicola Bulley after she went missing in the Lancashire village of St Michael's on Wyre, revealed he has offered to fly out to the island to "find out whether a third party was involved". He also vowed to track down the two men, who are thought to be British, that Jay is said to have stayed with in the Airbnb rental the night before he vanished.

He said: "I would quickly be able to do establish whether or not there are suspicious circumstances - but I'd need total access to everything and to speak to all the witnesses involved. Having feet on the ground and looking at the scenario and circumstances, I know I will get to the bottom of this in three days.

"If the family work with me, I will get them answers. It is crucial for the family. It is difficult for them, dealing with foreign police who handle it differently.

"But I'd need their full co-operation, I'd need to speak to every witness involved; those that he's been with since he's been on the island. Some people will be more persons of interest than others.

"It's a week on now - I need to get on the ground and get them answers. It's about finding Jay. I come with credibility, will work with them and Spanish police, and get them the answers they need.

"We need to establish what the involvement is with these two guys [he stayed with], why he went back to the Airbnb and then why just leave? The chances of him wandering off are possible, but is there more to this?"

His comments come after Jay's dad Warren told the M.E.N that his son's sudden disappearance 'doesn't make sense'. As he put up missing posters around the village of Santiago del Teide, where a reported - but unconfirmed - sighting was made to police, he said: "I knew right from when I went up there that he wouldn't have gone [off that road]. He isn't stupid."