Missing Jay Slater search takes new twist as ex-Scotland Yard top cop issues warning

The search for missing teen Jay Slater has taken a new twist after an ex-Scotland Yard top cop issued a warning about the Spanish investigators' approach to the Airbnb the Brit was staying at.

Graham Wettone, who was in the Met Police for 30 years, has urged Spanish police to accept help from their British counterparts and claimed an isolated £40 Airbnb could be a point of interest. The property was where Jay was driven to by two Brits following a rave after party in the Playa de las Americas resort.

Jay has been missing since June 17 after a three-day music festival, and ex-cop Graham believes something "very bizarre" has occurred. Little is known about the two men, who are in their late 30s and early 40s respectively.

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Spanish police believe the two men are "irrelevant" to the case. Speaking to MailOnline, Wettone said: "I've been following this case closely and discussing it with colleagues and it's certainly a very bizarre one, lots of things just don't add up." Graham added authorities should accept an offer of help from Lancashire police.

Jay Slater
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He added: "I'm sure the Spanish police kept their details and if need be can go back to them and investigate them with the help of British police. I know people are saying these two should have been kept, but unless there is any real incriminating evidence it would be hard to keep them in Spain.

"That's why I would start again from the beginning and speak to all the witnesses again; my gut feeling is that many of them may not be telling the truth. I would hope that they have at least secured the Airbnb because if evidence is there then it will need to be gathered." He is now urging them to "go back to their starting point" and look from there for the 19-year-old.

The Airbnb close to Masca in Tenerife where Jay Slater stayed the night before he went missing Credit: MEN Media
(Image: MEN Media)

The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from when he called pal Lucy Law, who he was staying with on the Monday morning, saying he was trying to walk home and that his phone was about to die. A two-week search of the area around where his phone was last tracked to was called off on Sunday after crews failed to find anything.

A report from crime reporter Isla Traquair read: "The two men that he went to go and stay with, they had met them three days before. They hung out with them, they made friends on holiday. It wasn't two random people he'd met that night. They'd established a friendship and (Jay's friend) Brad said they seemed like really cool guys."

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