Jay Slater's mum is sent chilling five-word Snapchat message after Tenerife flight

The mum of missing Jay Slater has said she was sent a vile Snapchat message with the words "kiss goodbye to your boy". Debbie Duncan said she was sent the chilling message after landing in Tenerife.

The message also claimed she would never see her son again and that he owed someone "a lot of money". A desperate search for her 19-year-old son is currently ongoing after he vanished on the Spanish island.

Mum Debbie and brother Zak have since flown out to the island to help with the search. Speaking on Wednesday, Debbie said: "There’s no ransom demand come in yet but I got a Snapchat about 10 minutes after I got off the plane saying "Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money" which I passed on to police with the number it came from because I had my wits about me at the time and got my eldest son Zac to take a screen grab before it disappeared."

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Jay - from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire - was reported missing on Monday morning after calling a friend to say he was making a long walk back to their accommodation. He had been with friends the night before and then reportedly caught a lift with others staying on the island, Mirror reports.

But he found himself unable to get a bus back. Friend Lucy Mae said she was called by Jay at about 8am on Monday morning saying he was thirsty and had 1 per cent battery left on his phone.

The teen has not been seen since. Spanish police are searching the apartment where he had been staying with friends.

Officers went into the room he was sharing with a friend at a three-star apartment complex in Los Cristianos, in the south of the island. Debbie said she fears 'something bad' happened to him and he was being held against his will.

She also revealed how she had been receiving sick hoax calls from someone claiming to have Jay. The mum said: "I haven’t slept since all this began and I’ve no plans to go up to the search site right now," she said. “I’ve been warned I’d be beside myself when I see how rocky it is and I probably haven’t got the strength right now.

“I just want to be here for if he does turn up but I’ve got a bad feeling. I’m being warned there’s a lot of bad people in Tenerife. I just think he’s being held against his will.

"He’s not a stupid lad. He wouldn’t have gone walking down bloody mountains. There’s a road there with tourists and buses and properties, he’s not that daft."

Guardia Civil police shifted their search to the south of the island near where Jay was staying on Wednesday (June 19) after reports of a sighting, which turned out to be a false lead. The search has now returned to the Rural de Teno area in the west of the island where he was last seen.

Debbie said: "Police have been into Jay’s room today. I’ve been in his room as well. But everything of Jay's was neatly hung up, it’s just a normal room and there’s nothing untoward there. His passport was there along with all his euros which I’ve got now.

"I’m not sure he had any money on him when he made that last call to his friend Lucy on Monday morning before he vanished. But he had his bank card and I’ve checked his bank because I can get into his account online and there’s nothing gone out since he was on Veronica’s Strip in Playa de Las Americas earlier.

"He and his friend Brad who he flew out here with would have been getting up tomorrow and flying home. They had a flight tomorrow morning. I’ve got the tickets as well as Jay’s passport which has had a stop put on it by the British authorities before they knew it was in my possession.

"Brad’s going to stay now. No one’s going to go to the airport just in case Jay turns up there because I know for a fact he would have been in contact with someone and won’t be suddenly reappearing there without warning.

"I’m being kept updated with what police are doing through the British Consulate and the lady there who’s been fantastic. We’ve been speaking to her daily a few times. I’ve told them my suspicions, that I think Jay’s been taken up north by people against his will.

"My understanding is the police have been into the house he went to after he left the festival which is in the Teno Rural Park near Masca. I believe the people he went with are British and have Cockney accents but I’m not aware they’re being treated as suspects at this time.

"For me it's just a question of sitting and waiting and hoping that tomorrow they’ll be good news."