Jay Slater’s family are facing fresh pain after a notorious ‘YouTube detective’ has shared new evidence.
The young bricklayer from Lancashire was last seen on June 17, trying to embark on a 10-hour trek back to his hotel after leaving a party on the Island with people he had just met. It is believed thought he misjudged the distance he had to walk, a mistake which regrettably led to his death.
After a desperate month-long search, the 19-year-old’s body was found finally on July 15 near the village of Masca. This was just metres from his last known location.
After his disappearance, Jay’s family were inundated with online abuse from trolls. Conspiracy theories about what had happened to him were shared all over the internet. Even now after two months since Jay was found, more claims are being made including a fresh suggestion by online detective Dan o’Keeffe who claimed that Jay had signs of being tortured when his body was found, reports the Mirror.
His allegations have led to more wild debate as well with nearly 1,000 people commenting on his video. While many people have hit out at the suggestions saying it is “nonsense” others appear to believe there could be some truth behind it and that Mr o’Keeffe should go to the police with his evidence.
One person said: “This video needs to go to the UK police. It has been obvious from the get go he was murdered,” and another wrote: “If his family see this, and you truly have the evidence you should be going to the police, this is horrifying news to hear on YouTube for the family. The UK police need to be sent all information.
And TikTok user @cometcrime also has dismissed the video and claimed she has contacted Mr o’Keeffe who did not give her a straight answer about whether he had handed the video to police. She said: ” I’ve had some email contact with Dan o’Keeffe where I’ve tried to ask him some very specific questions over and over again where he has refused to answer them. The main one was have you please handed that to Lancashire Police, he kept saying watch my video, watch my video.”
But another person said: “Absolute nonsense another fantasist writing his own fiction novel on some poor kids demise for views.” The preliminary autopsy pointed to his cause of death being on account of a ‘fall or plunge from height’, with the Civil Guard confirming that Jay’s catastrophic injuries included several broken bones. But despite the findings giving his loved ones some comfort, it still remains unknown why Jay ventured out alone.
Meanwhile Jay’s father Warren has launched his own TikTok page to discuss the investigation into his son’s disappearance. In his latest video, which has been viewed over 50,000 times, Warren said: “Just to show a video to confirm this is my account. The keys I found do belong to Down the Rapids guy. I found them at the end of the path.
“I haven’t been back to Tenerife ever since I came back from looking for my son. The videos that I’ve been posting are just documentation of what I was up to, where I was searching, things I was looking at while I was out there and that’s it.”
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