Jay Slater’s loved ones ‘absolutely heartbroken’ by ‘horrible lies’ and set record straight
As the search for Jay Slater stretched into yet another day on Tuesday, his friends and family have once again faced another raft of abusive messages online from cruel trolls who are compounding their anguish over the missing teenager.
19-year-old Jay, from Lancashire, has now been missing since June 17, when he disappeared in the mountains of north west Tenerife.
He had stayed at an Airbnb rental the night before he vanished after 'walking off alone’ in a remote part of the Island. So far the rescue effort to bring Jay home has seen members of the Civil Guard, fire crews and mountain rescue teams deployed to the vast and 'treacherous' Rural de Teno Park, while Jay's friends and family have also travelled to the island to assist the search.
Meanwhile, Jay's mum Debbie Duncan revealed she had “barely slept” and is “at her wit's end with worry”. Yet despite the anguish surrounding Jay’s absence, the apprentice bricklayer’s friends and family have also been forced to face off against countless false allegations on social media, which have ranged from claims they were ‘partying on boats’ through to false reports that Jay’s body had been found. READ MORE: Jay Slater missing in Tenerife LIVE with police 'considering all possibilities' - latest updates Hitting out at the claims on social media, the mother of Jay’s best friend, Rachel Harg, who is also the admin of the Find Jay Slater Facebook group, revealed the extent of the toll the trolling was taking, as she took to social media to slam yet another fake post and revealed it had left her “absolutely heartbroken.” Sharing a screenshot of a video online, which falsely claimed that Rachel had been partying on a boat instead of searching for the teen, Rachel hit out at the post as she wrote: "This is another horrible lie about myself firstly this isn’t me !!
