Jay Slater’s Instagram account has been ‘hacked’ by a mystery person as the search for the teenager in Tenerife continues for the seventh day.
The 19-year-old, who is the subject of a search and rescue operation on the Spanish island after he went missing last weekend, had his account “accessed” by someone other than him, his loved ones claimed.
Friends of Jay’s family furiously attacked the currently unknown person, calling them “sick in the head” and accusing people of making up “complete lies” about the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.
The apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, last posted on his Instagram account three years ago in July 2021, but there is a feature that allows his close friends to see when he last logged in.
Jay went missing last Monday after attending a three-day high-energy music festival, and the teenager was later seen walking away from Playa de las Americas.
Jay Slater, pictured here in a Snapchat post the morning he disappeared, has not been seen since Monday, June 17.
Search and rescue teams travel through a mountainous area of Tenerife near the town of Masca to try to find him.
He later contacted a friend to tell him that he was “lost in the mountains without water” and with a one percent battery on his cell phone, with the last phone signal near the beautiful location of the Masca gorge, which has been the focus of search and rescue efforts. in the days since then.
Since then, his mother Debbie Duncan, father Warren Slater and brother Zak, as well as other family members, have flown to the island to help with the search, while friends back home have continued to ask for help finding the boy. 19 years old. old on social networks.
However, they attacked some people who followed the case after it appears that an unknown person accessed Jay’s Instagram account while the search was underway.
Rachel Louise Harg, who runs the Jay Slater Missing page on Facebook and is close to his family, said her social media had been hacked and it wasn’t Jay who was logging in.
She wrote: ‘Jay’s mom asked me to post this. For everyone asking who’s logged into his Instagram account, it’s not him (Jay) or her (his mom), someone else is logged in.’
He added: “Some people are really sick in the head, there are people hacking my accounts and Jay’s family’s accounts, turning them into pure lies and pretending that we are all in on this.”
Ms Harg said Debbie is “devastated” and called the mystery person using the account “cruel”.
It comes as an explosive new video emerged on social media showing the teenager dancing shirtless in a nightclub just hours before he disappeared.
In the clip, Jay is seen dancing without his top at the Papagayo nightclub, which is located at the end of the famous Veronica’s Strip area in Playa de las Américas.
The after-party is understood to have ended at 5am and an hour later, Jay was with two mystery British men at their £40-a-night AirBnB 30km away in Masca.
Jay Slater, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, traveled to the Canary Islands for a music festival with Lucy Law and another friend
Jay Slater was seen dancing shirtless at Papagayo nightclub (pictured), which is located at the end of the famous Veronica’s Strip area in Playa de las Américas in Tenerife.
Apprentice bricklayer Jay Slater, 19, pictured here with his mother Debbie Duncan, was last heard from on Monday at 8.50am.
Search teams were seen near buildings in a ravine near the town of Masca on Sunday morning.
It was here that a woman made the last confirmed sighting of Jay at around 8.15am, saying he was walking at a good pace up the hill and away from Playa de las Americas.
Debbie, 55, who flew to Tenerife from her home in Oswaldtwistle, told MailOnline she had seen someone who looked like her son at around 6pm on the day he disappeared at the Santiago de Teide church, which is back to Playa de las Américas. .
She said the man had told police he was “with two men sitting on a bench next to the church, looking a little run down”, however it has not yet been confirmed that it was Jay.
Since he went missing, wild theories have flooded the internet and social media which MailOnline does not publish, but his mother Debbie fears he may be “held against his will”.
Police have said they are keeping an open mind about what happened and have used helicopters, drones and sniffer dogs as part of the search.
On Saturday, Jay’s father Warren, 58, and brother Zak, 24, visited the spot where his phone last rang and hugged each other in emotional scenes.
Fighting back tears, Warren, wearing a bucket hat, sunglasses and a black T-shirt, said, “He’s my son.” I just want him back.’
The couple traveled to a remote gorge above the town of Masca, 30 kilometers from the tourist center of Playa de les Americas, at an altitude of 1000 metres, where Jay’s mobile phone last rang on Monday morning.
Warren Slater and his son Zak, 24, joined other family and friends at the remote mountain spot where his mobile phone last rang on Monday morning.
Jay’s mother, Debbie Duncan, has made a direct appeal to her son, telling him “we just need you at home” as the search for him enters its seventh day.
They watched as mountain rescue teams and civil protection units with high-powered binoculars scanned the cactus-covered ravine for clues.
Friends of Jay’s who had flown in from Britain were also among the group and spent several hours at the scene while search teams explained what they were doing.
Both father and son appeared to cry as they embraced each other in the secluded spot and Warren simply said: “I just want the boy to come back.”
They also visited the Air BnB where Jay had gone after the festival with two mysterious British men and from where he had sent two Snapchat messages to his friend Lucy Mae Law.
The family reunion comes six days after Jay went missing in Tenerife on Monday morning.
Lucy Law, 18, was the last person to speak to Jay when he called her about 8am on Monday from a secluded mountain pass in Masca.
The walk from Jay’s last known location to his accommodation would have taken approximately 11 hours on foot.
Lucy, who attended the NRG music festival with Jay, said he called her and told her he was “lost in the mountains, unaware of his surroundings, desperately in need of a drink and that his phone was on at the same time.” One percent”.
This morning, search teams trying to locate Jay focused their efforts on small buildings near where his phone last rang in Tenerife.
On Sunday, agents from the Canary Islands Civil Guard could be seen surrounding two structures at the bottom of a ravine in the Teno Rural Park.
Efforts appeared to focus only on one area after days of searches in the town of Masca and the surrounding landscape.
Searchers on the seventh day of the search for Mr Slater could be seen looking at blue barrels outside one of the small buildings.