Jay mountaineer enlisted by family reveals 3 major issues hampering search
It comes as Jay’s best pals have reportedly flown home to the UK as the missing Brit’s family continue their desperate search.The Kilimanjaro and Mount Olympus climber jetted off to Tenerife this week to help tackle the treacherous Masca terrain where cops believe Jay might’ve got lost.



“Dozens of cars would have gone past him. We got here at 9am and the 10am bus passed us. And it would have passed him. I’ve been up here three weeks and I’ve never seen as many cars.”He continued telling the Manchester Evening News: “From the bnb, he’s a fit lad, 25 minutes you can get to the top, to where the cafe is. If he’s followed the road and been where we’ve been today, it’s took him an hour and a half.For days it was thought that the second mystery man went by the name ‘Johnny Vegas’.Mr Yerrell, who is the mayor of Waltham Abbey in Essex, also spoke out on how the family are feeling after a turbulent last week, the Mirror revealed.
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It was then that he left the south of the island and headed to an Airbnb in the northwest with two British men.Both men were questioned by Spanish cops on June 17 but quickly deemed “irrelevant” to the investigation and cleared to fly back to the UK.
Jay’s family were left heartbroken by the news of the search ending and took matters into their own hands.Shane Yerrell
Jay had been seen by the owner of the Airbnb that morning wandering around near the Rural de Teno park – a mountainous region close-by.A source close to the probe announced on Tuesday that cops are still hopeful of finding the teenager alive despite the time that has passed.
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Monday July 8 marked three weeks since Jay Slater, a 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished in Tenerife.Jay’s friend Lucy claimed to have “tracked down” the two men in the Airbnb after he vanished – quizzing them on the morning of Jay’s disappearance.
The apprentice bricklayer, who flew out to the popular holiday island for a rave festival with friends Lucy Law and Brad Page, has made headlines around the country.”They are doing everything to find him. They’re not just out for an hour, they’re out all day 9.30am until 6pm. Mr Yerrell, who has been part of the search party for a few days now, has quickly understood why it has been so tricky to make progress.By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News ReporterHe returned home to Essex on Tuesday morning but vowed to do all he could to support the family.Lucy, the last person to speak to Jay, claims she had a panicked call from him soon after he left the holiday let, telling her he was lost and thirsty, his phone was about to die and that he’d been cut by a cactus.On Sunday June 16 the three of them headed off to one of the events at Papagayo nightclub.A number of unanswered questions remain, over why Jay would have travelled so far with two older men he didn’t know, why said men would have taken him in, and why he braved the Tenerife mountains with no phone battery, water or heat protection for a day-long walkIn the morning he offered to drive the teen back to the Los Cristianos resort after a nap, but Jay, hungry and tired, said he wanted to leave immediately.



He said: “It’s really not easy. I struggled on the mountain and so did his family, but it didn’t bother them because their priority is powering through to find Jay.A MOUNTAINEER who was enlisted by Jay Slater’s family has revealed the three biggest issues hampering the search effort.The Sun revealed the identity of one of them – convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim, who spent nine years behind bars in the UK.Some reports have suggested Lucy knew the two men, although it is not clear how.We don’t yet know the identity of the second man – who remains a key part of the puzzle in Jay’s mysterious disappearance.It comes as The Sun revealed that British police still cannot get involved despite emotional pleas from Jay’s dad Warren.Desperate Warren has remained hopeful that they will find Jay but has been vocal about the family’s anguish over the case.Shane Yerrell has been with the devastated family as they scour the barren mountainous region where the teen’s phone last pinged on June 17.On Sunday former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who is out in Tenerife investigating, said Qassim told him he is in fact the man behind the nickname ‘Johnny Vegas’.
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Police spent almost two weeks searching for Jay in the Tenerife mountains, scouring a 2,000ft ravine, before calling it off on Sunday June 30.”The altitude and the heat makes it really difficult and the mountain is massive.
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