The 19-year-old has been missing for four days
The 19 year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire , travelled to Tenerife last month for a music festival with his friends Lucy Law and Brad. He was last heard from at 8.50am on Sunday, June 19 when he called Lucy with just 1 percent of battery left on his phone.
Jay and Lucy went their separate ways that evening. Lucy told the MEN: "I'd left the festival to come back to my hotel early because I was tired. Jay had stayed on with two new friends he'd made and a guy who we'd come with so there were four of them. "I said, 'If you're ever going to listen to anything I'm going to say to you, it needs to be now. If you're in the middle of nowhere with no water and no phone you're going to be f****d so you need to turn around and go back to wherever you came from and get help."Jay sent a photo of his location and said he didn't know where he was. It was a picture of some mountains online next to a house he had been to. Lucy told him to return to where he had walked from.
Lucy told Sky News: "We managed to find the house. I knocked on the door and there were two people there." Lucy said the two people explained to them that Jay had gone out for a cigarette before going back in and saying he wanted to go home. Lucy was left puzzled as to why Jay would opt to walk back to their resort instead, which would have taken him several hours. She said: "I can't understand why he would come out of the house and then decide he was going to walk. I think he maybe set off walking with battery and had not realised how far the walk actually is."
Stepdad Andy Watson has cast doubt over the theory that Jay would have tried to walk back from the friend’s house to where he was staying. He said: “He has me run him down to the hairdressers. It is 200 yards away - why would he walk eight hours?"
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