By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter

Monday July 8 significant 3 weeks considering that Jay Slater, a 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared in Tenerife.

The pupil bricklayer, that flew bent on the preferred vacation island for a go crazy celebration with pals Lucy Law and Brad Page, has actually made headings around the nation.

On Sunday June 16 the 3 of them avoided to one of the occasions at Papagayo club.

In the very early hours of Monday 17 – Lucy and Brad prepared to head back to their resort, yet Jay intended to keep partying.

It was then that he left the south of the island and headed to an Airbnb in the northwest with 2 British guys.

The Sun exposed the identification of one of them – founded guilty dope dealer Ayub Qassim, that invested 9 years behind bars in the UK.

For days it was believed that the 2nd secret guy passed the name ‘Johnny Vegas’.

On Sunday previous investigator Mark Williams-Thomas, that is out in Tenerife checking out, claimed Qassim informed him he remains in truth the guy behind the label ‘Johnny Vegas’.

We don’t yet recognize the identification of the 2nd guy – that stays an essential component of the challenge in Jay’s strange loss.

Qassim declares he drove Jay and the buddy back to their lodging and claimed they all went to rest.

In the early morning he used to drive the teenager back to the Los Cristianos hotel after a snooze, yet Jay, starving and exhausted, claimed he intended to leave instantly.

Lucy, the last individual to talk to Jay, declares she had actually a worried telephone call from him not long after he left the vacation allow, informing her he was shed and parched, his phone will pass away which he’d been reduced by a cactus.

Jay had actually been seen by the proprietor of the Airbnb that early morning straying around near the Rural de Teno park – a hilly area nearby.

He is thought to have actually been trying the 11-hour trip back to his resort, regardless of the affirmed deal of a lift and even more buses set up for the day.

It existed that his phone last sounded – and he hasn’t been seen or learnt through considering that.

Mark Williams-Thomas has actually declared he left the Airbnb swiftly, and was “scared”.

Bizarrely, Qassim states he was awakened that early morning by a telephone call from an unrevealed buddy of Jay, stating he was “in a ditch” someplace and had actually been “cut by a cactus”.

Jay’s buddy Lucy declared to have “tracked down” both guys in the Airbnb after he disappeared – quizzing them on the early morning of Jay’s loss.

Some records have actually recommended Lucy recognized both guys, although it is unclear exactly how.

She has actually called his loss “weird and suspicious”.

Both guys were examined by Spanish police officers on June 17 yet swiftly regarded “irrelevant” to the examination and removed to fly back to the UK.

Police invested virtually 2 weeks looking for Jay in the Tenerife hills, searching a 2,000ft gorge, prior to calling it off on Sunday June 30.

Jay’s household have actually consistently pounded the Spanish examination right into his unusual loss.

His uncle, Glen Duncan, is persuaded of “third party involvement”.

And the teenager’s ruined father, Warren Slater, states “everything stinks”

He informed The Sun: “My starting position, I’ve said this from day one, ask the two men who’ve taken him – and then start from there.”

A number of unanswered inquiries stay, over why Jay would certainly have taken a trip until now with 2 older guys he didn’t recognize, why claimed guys would certainly have taken him in, and why he endured the Tenerife hills without phone battery, water or warmth defense for a day-long stroll