A former detective has revealed new information on the 19-year-old's death.

09:09, Thu, Jun 12, 2025 | UPDATED: 09:10, Thu, Jun 12, 2025

Jay Slater

Jay Slater's body was found after a 29-day search in Tenerife (Image: Men Media)

Jay Slater's friend has made a glaring admission about the night he disappeared. The 19-year-old from Lancashire went missing after attending a music festival in Tenerife last year before his body was found following a 29-day search.

Jay is reported to have left the Papagayo nightclub, in the resort of Playa de las Americas, on June 16 before going to an Airbnb apartment located in the north of Tenerife with two men. He then vanished and was reported missing on June 18. However, his friend Lucy Law told former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who worked with Jay's family after his disappearance, that she did not know who the two men were he left the nightclub with.

As reported by the Mirror, the 20-year-old said: "I have no idea. I don't know who they are! How would I know who they are?"

Williams-Thomas replied: "But you don't just pass people in a coffee shop and spend two nights with them, and then Jay gets in a car with them. Why were they staying so far away?"

Lucy then said: "I dont know I had never met these people in my life." She also claimed that the local Tenerife police did not take her reports of Jay's disappearance seriously.

She told Williams-Thomas: "Police kept ending the phone on me, they weren't taking me seriously. I ran down to a taxi rank and went to the nearest police station.

"I went in and they gave me this piece of paper that said ‘go on this website’ but I can’t remember what else was on there."

Macro Search For The 19 Year-old British Tourist Who Disappeared On June 17 In Tenerife.

His body was found in a steep mountainous area (Image: Getty)

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Lucy went looking for the Airbnb where Jay was after he called her to say he was in trouble. Williams-Thomas asked her: "How did you know to go to that location?"

She replied: "Because he uploaded a video on his Snapchat story, there was a cigarette a white car (...) I had no idea where this house was, we were driving around looking for clues. I was doing this before the police, why was it not the police? I don’t understand."

Jay's body was found by the Spanish Civil Guard in a steep and inaccessible area near the village of Masca on July 15. His death was caused by a severe head injury and an inquest revealed that the pattern of injuries was consistent with a fall.