Former British detective investigating missing Jay Slater ‘wants to speak to two key people’
TV investigator Mark Williams-Thomas, who presented the documentary that exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile, has flown to Tenerife to help find Jay Slater.
Watch: Former British police investigator outlines 'two options' which may have happened to Jay Slater
A former British detective who has travelled to Tenerife to investigate the disappearance of Jay Slater has said that two men could hold “crucial” information.
Slater, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared in Tenerife following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus on 17 June. The apprentice bricklayer had attended the NRG music festival on the island with two friends before his disappearance.
While the search, which is now in its second week, has uncovered no firm leads, former detective – and TV investigator – Mark Williams-Thomas has flown out to Tenerife to help find Slater. He told reporters that he wants to speak to two men who have already spoken to police and flown back to England.
Williams-Thomas, an award-winning journalist who presented the ITV documentary that exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile, believes the two men hold “crucial information” into Slater’s disappearance. The detective said the men were the ones that Slater left with on the morning he went back to his rental apartment.
Williams-Thomas said: “These two men have spoken to the police. They are now back in England. But these two men I need to speak to because they have crucial information.
“I do not know the names, I know the nickname of one of them, and I have a photograph of one of them. They know who they are.
“I would urge them to come forward to contact me so that I can speak to them and I'll speak to them in confidence because I need to establish a lot more detail in terms of what took place, both in terms of the lead-up to them taking Jay back to the property and also whilst they were at that property.”
'Two options'
Spanish police have so far yet to hold a press conference into Slater’s disappearance. Their silence has possibly fuelled numerous online conspiracy theories about what has happened to Slater.
Williams-Thomas himself said that there were two possible options, but doubted the possibility that the teenager had run away to start a life of his own.
He added: “There are two options. He has either come to harm himself by simply falling off an edge, or a cliff or something, or there is a third party involved, which is based around some element of criminality.”
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Who are the two men?
Little is known about the two men that Williams-Thomas would like to speak to. Details have not been released, while descriptions are merely conjecture and hearsay at the moment.
According to The Sun, the men hosted Slater at their Airbnb rental and were briefly questioned by Spanish police before flying back to the UK. The pair reportedly travelled to Luton Airport after questioning.
The Sun claims that British police will not question the two men themselves as the investigation “falls outside the jurisdiction of UK policing”.
Read more:
Jay Slater: Tenerife police looking into reports of 'teenager watching Euro games' on island (Evening Standard)
Jay Slater's dad says police keeping family in dark (Sky News)
Search for Jay Slater in Tenerife finds a different missing person (Manchester Evening News)
