Jay Slater missing – latest: Family urged to use GoFundMe to carry on search as TikToker uncovers ‘new clue’
Spanish police haved called off the search for Jay Slater almost two weeks after he vanished on Tenerife
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Jay Slater’s family have been urged to use fundraising donations to hire “experts” to continue the search for the missing teenager.
Spanish police said the hunt for the 19-year-old from Lancashire had ended, with the case remaining open on Sunday as the gruelling search entered another week.
But his family have vowed to carry on looking for him regardless.
TV detective Mark Williams-Thomas flew out to conduct his own investigation and has urged the family to use some of the £46,000 raised to help continue the search.
He wrote on X: “In light of the police search ending. I have suggested the family should use the GoFundMe money to continue the search using experts in searching.”
It comes as an amateur sleuth claimed to be following an unofficial “new clue”.
TikTok climber Paul Arnott, who has been searching for Jay in Tenerife, said that a pair of sunglasses similar to the ones Jay was last seen wearing had been found close to where his mobile phone last pinged.
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