Internet sleuths have flown out on one-way tickets to Tenerife to help find missing Jay Slater - echoing the case of Nicola Bulley.
They include false and unfounded claims that he has faked his disappearance to pocket cash from a GoFundMe page, that he has been kidnapped after a drugs deal went wrong with criminal enforcers holding him to pay back the debt, and that he may have actually pocketed the money himself and is lying low until the heat dies down.
They searched the river path, caravan park and fields where she was last seen but Lancashire Police were forced to issue a warning to stay away because those 'playing private detective' were getting in the way of the proper rescue teams. At least five Britons are understood to have left home in the UK to fly out to Tenerife and hike through the Macizo de Teno mountains near the village of Masca, where Jay's mobile phone was last pinged.
Paul Arnott , 29, who flew out from Fort William three days ago and has been updating his TikTok page called 'DOWNTHERAPIDS' where he has 193,000 followers 'They've got dogs out at the moment and they've just asked me to come down here because they don't want too many people around . Explaining why he came to Tenerife, he told Sky News: 'I heard on the internet, but they needed help.
Mr Knight, who now lives in Tenerife, has been searching a mountainside close to the spot where Jay last used his phone. A picture of missing teenager Jay Slater shows the 19-year-old in a nightclub in the early hours with his female friend Lucy Law just hours before he disappeared in Tenerife Posting on his social media Bradley said:'Don't know why l've to jump on here to explain myself to the Facebook world but if any of yous believe me his best mate has anything to do with him going missing your honestly not all there.
'They could be doing everything but if they are doing , they're not telling us what they're doing, if you understand what I'm saying.' The grainy CCTV is taken close to a church, San Fernando Rey, where Jay's mother told MailOnline on Saturday that a man has come forward to say he saw someone matching her son's description sitting on a bench with two men.