Jay Slater | Inquest begins (P173)

[jrb]

On Saturday, almost two weeks on from Jay's disappearance, authorities in Tenerife organised a public search to try to comb through the area.

Emergency workers had been combing the Masca valley and other nearby ravines, caves and paths daily, with no luck.

They hoped that the call for a “massive search” would bring experienced amateur climbers and hikers to the area to comb through the undergrowth, looking for any clues as to what happened to Jay.

On the day, fewer than a dozen volunteers turned up.

All in all, including the professionals, 30 people in total were tasked with combing a massive and difficult-to-reach search area. For most of the morning, there were more journalists than rescue workers at the rendezvous point.

Caves, ravines and towering volcanic cliffs: The search for Jay Slater

Almost two weeks after the 19-year-old was last seen, the search has now been called off.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[jrb]

The islands are all volcanoes in the sea basically. The area he is assumed to have gone missing in is one of the most barren and isolated areas there. Have been several times on excursions and the roads are very narrow and treacherous even for experienced drivers. They're basically ravines and if he has slid or fallen it would be very difficult to locate a body, even for trained rescuers. It could just be a simple case of him walking on the main road as such and a car has come round a corner and ran into him, they've panicked and disposed of him tragically.

Shackattack is right.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I was talking to a bar owner last night who's been in this island many years. He knows one of the guys who runs the Morrocon firms. He said they haven't got him.

I’m no mafia boss, but if I was I don’t think I’d be giving all the local pub landlords daily updates on the comings and goings of my criminal empire.

Just a thought.

 

[NZBlue]

Just wondering- after what is it it now, 2 weeks of searching, have they found anyone with any sympathy for him yet?

 

[cheekybids]

Don't know they're usually good at fezzimg up.

“just like that”

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Well if he's brown bread he'll stink like fuck by now and the sniffer dogs will be going the other way in the mountains.

 

[LWashington]

Shackattack is right.

So he's either Down On The Street or with the Night Birds ?

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

I’m no mafia boss, but if I was I don’t think I’d be giving all the local pub landlords daily updates on the comings and goings of my criminal empire.

Just a thought.

I'm not so sure Johnny. They don't call him El Chappo for nothing.

 

[DrBlueBob]

I'm not so sure Johnny. They don't call him El Chappo for nothing.

El Choppo?

 

[splinter]

Send over some English spinger spaniels..if they don't find him nothing will..they will sniff and run all bleeding day..

 

[Crooked_rain]

I was talking to a bar owner last night who's been in this island many years. He knows one of the guys who runs the Morrocon firms. He said they haven't got him.

Fair enough

Better let the police know to close off that potential avenue because a fella from the local boozer said the Moroccan Mafia said they haven't got him.

 

[heslops barnet]

Search called off according to Sky News…..

 

[splinter]

So the civil guard have ended the search..Will act now on tip offs. Right everyone back to sunny Oswaldtwistle

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Looks like they were working on the assumption that he had fallen down and was covered by rocks or shrubs.

Or could he have been eaten by a predator?

Are there bears or large reptiles on the island?

 

[york away to this!]

Send over some English spinger spaniels..if they don't find him nothing will..they will sniff and run all bleeding day..

Those are the traits that got Jay in this predicament in the first place...

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Are there bears or large reptiles on the island?

No

 

[LWashington]

I worked with a woman who said her husband used to leave with his golf clubs at night to play floodlit golf. She later found out it was the bar maid he was playing.

Who won ?

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

I can't find the thread, but I've just read that the lad from Oldham who was missing in Londons turned up safe and well. :)

 

[Keeper!]

Don't know they're usually good at fezzimg up.

 

[Keeper!]

Looks like they were working on the assumption that he had fallen down and was covered by rocks or shrubs.

Or could he have been eaten by a predator?

Are there bears or large reptiles on the island?

Don't you need help in covering someone with rocks and shrubs?