Tenerife tour guide issues 'dangerous' Jay Slater update and says 'what was he doing'

A Tenerife tour guide has spoken out over the disappearance of Jay Slater. Speaking to reporters on the ground in the Canary Islands today, a tour guide - Angel - told the Manchester Evening News “nothing like this has happened before”.

He regularly drives up to Masca, describing the landscape as “dangerous”. “What was he doing at 8 in the morning?” he asked. There has not yet been any police response, official or otherwise, to reports of a possible sighting of Jay outside a church in Santiago de Teide around 6pm last Monday.

Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan said a witness had gone to police and claimed to have seen him sitting on a bench with a pair of men, just over three miles away from the village of Masca where the missing teenager had spent time in an Airbnb.

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Lancashire Constabulary said it had made “an offer of support to the Guardia Civil to see if they need any additional resources”, which was rejected by Spanish authorities. Questioned on whether Spanish police should have accepted help from the UK force, Ms Duncan said: “I believe they said they’ve got enough resources and they don’t need the help from English police.

“I don’t know if they find it an insult – I really don’t know. They say they’ve got enough resources to get on with the investigation... I don’t know, I don’t know.” Asked if her head was spinning from the past few days, she said: “It is, it is. People say: ‘Yeah, I understand’ – no, you don’t, you don’t understand.”

Speaking about what message she would have for her son, Ms Duncan added: “We just need you home – we just need him home.” The 19-year-old was on his first ever holiday without his family when he vanished as he walked back to his accommodation last Monday morning.