Jay Slater’s friend Lucy Law breaks silence after sharing touching photo of the couple together

A close friend of distraught Jay Slater has shared a new photo of them together. The 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, has been missing in Tenerife since June 17.

His friend Lucy Law has been instrumental in efforts to find Jay in recent weeks. She claims to have spoken to Jay on the phone when he told her he planned to walk back from an AirBnB in the north of Tenerife to their accommodation in the south.

Lucy has now shared a touching photo of the couple on Instagram, the Mirror reports. The picture includes a blue heart and a crying face emoji.

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The last time Jay was heard from was when he phoned Lucy to say he was “lost in the middle of nowhere”. The apprentice mason had attended the NRG music festival with two friends before his disappearance, and his last known location was the Teno Rural Park in the north of the Canary Islands.

It was earlier reported that he had spent the night at an Airbnb and was last seen by two men at the rental. According to Lucy, Jay had told her that he planned to walk from the Airbnb to his accommodation after missing a bus, which would take him about 11 hours of walking.

She also added that her phone was at 1% battery. Lucy had previously described the situation as “weird” and said: “There’s something weird going on. It’s suspicious. In two days, you’re telling me no one’s seen him. There’s a restaurant 10 minutes away that he could have seen or walked past. It’s suspicious and it’s weird.”

His friend had earlier said: “It’s true that the restaurant didn’t open for another two hours, but if I had been in his shoes, I would have sat down and waited in the restaurant until it opened. As soon as it opened, I would have said, ‘Can you charge my phone please?’ and I would have called someone, I would have called a taxi.”

Lucy hasn’t commented publicly on the missing person case for over two weeks, but she previously shared an update after locating the two people who saw Jay an hour before he went missing. She said: “We managed to find the house. I knocked on the door and there were two people there.”

She added that the couple told her that Jay had gone to buy cigarettes before returning to their apartment. However, once he returned, he allegedly told them that he wanted to go back to his accommodation. “They told me that he had spoken to the neighbours next door and that they had told him that there was a bus every 10 minutes to go back to Los Cristianos,” she said.

“The bus stop was right next to the house. So if he had gone to catch the bus, he wouldn’t have gotten lost because it (the stop) was visible from the front door.”

On Thursday, the man who rented the Airbnb, named Ayub Qassim, spoke out about the disappearance case and said Jay arrived at the vacation home alive and also left alive. Spanish police had previously questioned Qassim and his unnamed friend and determined they were “not relevant” to the investigation.

He told the Mail he had let the 19-year-old stay because he “had nowhere else to go” and claimed all his friends had “left him”. Qassim said he knew the bricklayer through friends and was doing him a “favour” by letting him stay. His remarks come after the search on the ground for the missing Briton was suspended.

Jay’s mother, Debbie Duncan, recently released a statement saying: “Jay is a normal boy in his third year of apprenticeship and is a very popular young man with a wide circle of friends. We are a very close family and are absolutely devastated by his loss. Words cannot describe the pain and agony we feel. He is our beautiful boy with his whole life ahead of him and we just want to find him. We have no information on his whereabouts.”

“The Guardia Civil worked tirelessly in the mountains where Jay’s last phone call was traced. They conducted a 12-day field search, mobilizing all the resources at their disposal. Although the field search has been completed, the Spanish police are still investigating why Jay traveled to this location so far from his home. We extend our sincere thanks to the Spanish authorities who continue to follow up on the leads in the investigation.”