Mark Williams-Thomas said it 'provides some clarity as to why he may have left in a hurry and did not want to return to the rental'
A former British police detective working for the family of missing Jay Slater says he has received "a significant new piece of information" about the teenager's disappearance.
Mr Williams-Thomas did not give any further information about what the new clue is. He had previously spoken out about how Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, had told pals he couldn't go back to the property, which he had travelled to with two older British men before his disappearance. "It was a cold damp morning only 18 degrees, with a high that day only reaching 20. The evidence we have been able to collect, including the significant new intelligence, strongly supports that Jay is therefore most likely to be in or around the mountains, we suspect some distance from the last phone location."
He joined the hunt for apprentice bricklayer Jay, 19, after reaching out to Jay's mum Debbie Duncan, 55, offering his help free-of-charge, which she accepted. And he travelled to the island on June 24, where he was seen carrying out inquiries at the holiday rental, as well as at Papagayo nightclub, where Jay had been seen shortly before he vanished.
He said: "We've now had the opportunity to speak to all the people that we know leading up to his disappearance. However there are still people we have not yet spoken to and I would urge them to get in contact so they can be ruled out of the investigation."
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