One of Jay Slater's best friends has shared the last conversation he had with the missing teen.
As the search for Jay reaches its 12th day, crime journalist Isla Traquair spoke to one of the last people to hear from the holidaymaker before he disappeared - one of his closest friends Brad Hargreaves.
Lancashire-born Jay vanished after attending a music festival on the Spanish island on Monday, June 17. He was last heard from by his friends, as he told them he was hours away from his accommodation with a very low phone battery.
Appearing on This Morning today, one of Jay's friend's opened up about their last conversation after becoming one of the last people to have spoken to Jay prior to his disappearance.
Brad, 19, was emotional as he spoke of his friend's "zest for life" and said that Jay wasn't initially worried about finding his way back to his friends.
"He was on the phone and he goes: 'I've got walk and go all down that road'", Brad said, adding that Jay had promised to video call him back but hung up as "someone else was ringing him."
Brad added that Jay, according to him, would have avoided going down the road he had mentioned during their phone call as he speculated the savvy lad would have taken a safer path.
The teen revealed that he could also hear Jay's feet slide on the rocks, signalling to him his friend had "went off the road.. That's how I knew he went off the road because, you know when you walk on gravel, or whatever it is, you can... you know what I mean, stones."
Brad explained, “He was on the phone walking down a road and he’d gone over a little bit - not a big drop - but a tiny little drop and he was going down, and he said ‘I’ll ring ya back, I’ll ring ya back’ because I think someone else was ringing him. If he was thinking like me, he would have gone back up and started walking on the path again… He wouldn't have gone all that way down there.”
Isla said, “You said you could see his feet and he was sort of sliding down the hill?”
Brad replied, “Yeah, that’s how I knew he went off the road because I could hear like when you walk on gravel… stones.”
Isla asked: “Were you concerned at that point?”
Brad replied: “Not at the time because we were both laughing and he said, ‘Look where I am’ and I was like, ‘I’ve just come out of a festival’ and he didn’t seem concerned on the phone until we knew how far away he was. I said, ‘Put your location on and he said ‘a 15 minute drive or a 14 hour walk, I don’t know if it’s accurate or not’ and I said, ‘If it’s only a 15 minute drive, get a taxi’.”
In recent days, Jay Slater's family have come under fire after the launch of a GoFundMe campaign, which gathered over £40k. The youngster's mother Debbie recently confirmed that the funds were being withdrawn and will be used for her and her loved ones' stay in Tenerife, as they have all joined the search for the teen.
In another recent instalment of This Morning, Isla Traquair raised alarm bells about the conspiracy theories swirling around Jay Slater's disappearance as she also called out their impact on his family and friends.
"I went into a deep dive very late last night looking into all this. People have posted photos of bodies saying 'that could be his body' and they've traced to a photograph taken in Iceland. It's absolute nonsense - can you imagine how traumatic that is for his family?", she said.
Elsewhere, while authorities focus their search on the Rural de Teno Park and Masca, multiple "sightings" of Jay Slater notably catching up with recent matches of the Euro 2024 have led to confusion.
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