A waitress at the Tenerife nightclub where Jay Slater was last seen before he disappeared said he “didn’t look well” while senior staff remained tight-lipped.
The 19-year-old from Lancashire had attended an NRG Festival rave at Papagayo in Playa de las Americas all night before disappearing on June 17. After the event, Jay went to a remote Airbnb in the north with two men and then left the property on foot, heading towards Teno Country Park.
Despite an intensive search by emergency services that continued until June 30, Jay remains missing and investigations are ongoing. A waitress who reportedly saw Jay at the rave party commented on his condition, noting that he appeared “unsteady on his feet” and “didn’t look well.”
Asked by the Manchester Evening News for a statement on Jay’s disappearance, a department manager said: “No one will talk.”
Further questions about the waitress’ observations of Jay’s condition at the club were met with the response: “No one would talk about that,” the Mirror reports.
Earlier, video footage emerged online appearing to show a young man resembling Jay at the party, wearing what appears to be the same clothes he was last seen in.
Speaking about Jay at the club that night, a waiter told The Sun: “I remembered Jay because he was unsteady on his feet. I gave him free water because he didn’t look well. I remembered him, my boyfriend called me in the morning and said he was missing. I recognised his picture straight away. I feel so sad, it hits so close to home because I’m his age too. I feel so much sympathy for his family.”
Jay’s disappearance case has caught the attention of former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas. In a recent update shared on Friday, he shared eyewitness accounts that Jay was “wide awake and still going strong” in the early hours of June 17.
Following Jay’s disappearance, NRG Festival officials announced on social media: “Firstly, thank you to everyone who came to our NRG event in Tenerife last weekend. As you know, among those attending was 19-year-old Jay Slater, who after leaving the event went missing in the north of the island on Monday.”
“We are grateful to the thousands of people who responded and shared the appeals on our own channels and many others in the days that followed. Despite widespread media coverage and the hard work of local authorities and volunteers involved in the search at the time of publication, Jay had not yet been found. It has deeply affected us all that such a devastating situation has occurred.”
