The Most Confusing Missing Person in Recent Memory... Finally Found | Jay Slater 

That name is so fun to say!!😂😂

Too roight, innit?

Yeah...I'm in a gang from Honeydale..It's a "rural" gang...and..We get together for Bingo twice monthly.

😂sounds like a toy town

especially when the local rizz effectively pronounces it asswadtwiddle XD

In the UK its considered assault if you defend yourself from an attack. Meaning, machete victim couldve gotten prison time if he fought back. So chopping a kids head with a machete, community service. Defending yourself? Prison time.

Wow! That’s really sad.

@@CyrusChennault This is not true according to Google stating in the UK: The common law of self-defence applies where the defendant uses necessary, reasonable and proportionate force to defend themselves or another from imminent attack. It is a complete defence to all non-sexual offences involving the unlawful use of force (anything from battery to murder).

@@CyrusChennault Silly septic..

​@@CyrusChennault surely you dont actually believe this?

You were spot on with Oswaldtwistle 😉 didn't realise enough people lived there to form a gang??

You're normally perfect with the European names. English towns too.

You pronounced it the American way, so not wrong at all. In England it's referred to as Tenner-Reef

Its wrong but it kept making me smile.

Actually you're the first English-speaking RU-vidr that I hear saying it right! LOL

He actually come out and said he wasn’t lost at all! Experienced Hiker just hiking… he maintains he told the police he wasn’t lost at all but they reported that he was and that they had ‘saved his life’ 🤷‍♀️

@@sewsed He's Scottish, though, so I wouldn't blame non-native English speakers for not understanding him 🤣

​@@georgezee5173😅😅😅

Them forcibly taking a hiker off a hiking trail and acting like heroes was extremely funny, bloke was so indignant lol

@@punchbeard They never acted like heroes nor claimed they had rescued him. That was the British media, as usual. They had probably closed the area from hiking and just removed him from it.

Blessing in disguise. If in prison he might still be alive. People like Jay dont deserve to make it past 20 yo.

Bollocks, mate.

Nah g you can’t say stuff like that. Not upto u to decide, sure he should have got heavy prison but maybe he would have learned in pen and regretted his actions

Tom Hilton appears the career criminal. Jay seems to have got in with a bad crowd. Not justifying his actions, but his mates seem to have done a lot worse. My heart goes out to his family especially Debbie.

if he did he'd still be alive, so this was for the best even though he absolutely should have.

rofl, i missed that when he said it, fkn gold!

this was the most frustrating statement i think ive ever heard a person make in my entire life. absolutely no hint as to what the fuck he is talking about, i only realized he meant he couldn't hear his footsteps on the gravel anymore from the sheer fact that i myself am not an idiot

None of these people are the sharpest tools in the box.

LOLLLL

LOL. I thought, at first, he was using British slang. Nope. Just never learned how to speak. Drugs hurt brains, kids....

Not the sharpest bulb in the tool cache . Cus’ you know, stones.

​@@andersondasilva1334omg 😂was that necessary 😂

​@@andersondasilva1334 😂😂😂😂😂😂

this being the same girl that thought the Spanish were using their sniffer dogs incorrectly, and not interviewing the other lads "properly". all said with a wealth of experience and knowledge im sure lol

Or scared stiff.

Lucy told him to stay where he was and they were coming to get him. Its likely he thought he would get a head start and meet them on route. Unbeknown to him that he was walking in the opposite direction. When hes realised that he's tried to get back to where he was by cutting out the gorge and has died doing it. That last call with brad his final words were "i''ll' call you back i'll call you back" i'd put money on that being the pinnacle moment he was falling rather than another call incoming. He would of wanted to save his phone and use both his hands but it wasn't enough and he's tumbled down the side of a mountain and plummeted into a ravine head first! the responders said all his injuries are consistent for a fall. Don't forget people have fallen from meer FEET and died. you only need to hit your head once in the wrong place and i imagine falling down a cliff face smashing your head of rocks on the way down would defo do that.,

​@@brettrigby2226 Thats not what happened though is it, he called Lucy after calling Brad and so couldn't have fallen while on the phone with him/directly afterwards. Its more likely hes getting away from someone, scared, not using the road as he'll be found by the car and thinks he can get out through the mountains maybe even just to hide until his 2 mates come later. I think its far more likely he slipped while trying to move quickly to get away from someone and that that someone was able to retrieve the things he stole. I'm sure we'll find out more, the Spanish police letting the drug dealer and his friend leave is criminal and clearly critical to the investigation, along with his dodgy dealings on the island, how Lucy travels around Europe constantly without a real job and many other things Dire Trip unfortunately missed out

@@TheKruxed no he never! He called Lucy FIRST who told him to stay where he was and she would come and get him! He then called Brad to tell him where he was and how fucked he was! The reason Lucy was there less than an hour later was because as she said…she was coming to get him! You use terms like “more likely” while making baseless claims!

What you’re actually doing is villaising ppl based on your own opinion. It’s wrong

An Attempt at deterring. Even having fake cameras w just a sign would be enough to sort of put people off. Not ideal but lots of places do it.

@@ciaraskeleton Definitely true that just the appearance of a camera is a deterrent, but surely if you're going to the trouble of providing a CCTV camera with power and the facility to record video, it might as well have a resolution good enough to be able to actually identify people? And if not, a fake camera would be easier and cheaper to set up. A powered, but low-resolution, camera just seems like a ridiculous half-job that has the hassle of requiring power and recording storage but without the advantage of actually identifying people on it

You look at the case from the isle of wight, that was in the 90s and the cctv is so clear! Even has audio! Unfortunately he was never found. Lads name is Damien Nettles. Dissappeared 96

@@pinkbubblesnake Ah yes I remember that one!

​​@@ciaraskeletonbut if it's for deterrence why buy working cameras at all then? Lol

1000000%, definitely witherspoon regulars

What, so we just take them out back? The prison system doesnt rehabilitate anyways, but even successful murderers can get less than a life sentence when caught. I understand the sentiment, but what do you suggest we do with attempted murderers?

@@blakewhite3131 "What, so we just take them out back?" Yes

@@PitH0und I'm not entirely opposed to that suggestion, I'm just curious what alternative methods there could be. The legal system is in shambles, and how things work clearly isn't an effective way of dealing with these crimes, so I really value hearing what other people think about this matter, since it has so many varied perspectives to consider. Though, if every single murder attempt was an immediate death sentence, that seems like a blanket solution to a nuanced problem. It also would also be bad for instances of false charges. I definitely think in this case, given the violence and weapons and intent with the attempted murder, the safety of the public should've been valued over his age.

Look at Norway and take a sociology class

@@biblereadingmum1239Yep. It actually works over here!

Drugs clearly I bet he took some ecstatsy or k or something n fancied a walk

_The selective empathy zoomers have is disgusting. I'm a Canadian armed forces veteran and taking someones life is no small thing, because even if it's a terrorist or someone that's going to kill you, you're still taking everything that person has or ever will have and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy._

Not sad

Sad?

>Nobody understands | My brother in Christ he took so much shit that he stayed up for 72+ hours. He was absolutely full of low quality drugs, going hyper and most likely paranoid from them. This is part and parcel of being a non-fixable druggie.

Same. They should have been locked up for that. That's insane. Hope Tom got therapy, can't imagine the mental scarring.

Yep, isn't it ironic

Nope it's karma

So true! Or someone would have dealt with him in prison.

He didn't attack the guy though. He was just in with the gang

@@DanielCordone9 regardless in the eyes of the law you're part of whatever conspires

yup and please test your drugs!

And don't over do it. Some drugs take a while to kick in so have a little patience

Gatorades is a winner too. Electrolytes!

And don't forget the sunblock 😎🔴

Small sips often, you do not want to od on water

He was surely high af after drug taking during the partying. The illogical choice to walk 10hrs- when utterly unprepared- makes perfect sense when under the influence of stimulants like meth.

@@TheDramacist yeah, it does

Plus, I'm not sure how it is in Tenerife (no one really mentions it so maybe it's less of a thing), but in the UK there is absolutely a chance that a taxi will refuse to drive you if you're visibly on drugs. Sometimes you're sober enough to realise a taxi probably wouldn't take you, yet high enough to think that a two hour wait for the bus is unbearable, but walking home through a nature trail sounds fun. It happened to me once - what should have been a twenty minute walk took me two and a half hours

​@@ScouseJazminor you're in a foreign country afraid of going to jail

Yea the dealer’s story conveniently mentions no drug usage outside of a cigarette, seeing as they were at a festival and he was a dealer I’d guess some K was involved

@popartpistol On Drugs raving all night de-hydrated high temprature you just want to sleep all day after not walk a F**king mountain.

They issue in this case is that Jay's friends and associates are dealers, so they basically wanted as least attention as possible from the beginning so people wouldn't recognise them. All that led to them looking and sounding suspicious AF, like they were hiding something... and they were actually hiding something, just not about Jay's disappearance itself.

​@georgezee5173 yes! Someone speaking logically & common sense, I totally agree with you.

​@@georgezee5173 Nicely said. Everything about this is suspect.

Maybe you live in the US? The criminal justice system in the UK is broken. There are not enough prisons. They are filled to bursting. So many criminals who should be locked up are out on community sentences.

The lad who got hacked bided his time and got his vengeance .From the look of him his kin don't forget or forgive .

@@lauraditchburn1857 I do live in the US. Every time I watch a video from the UK it always amazes me what light sentences people get. It’s just not right.

@@stefanhinchliffe5318 Not a bad idea.

​@piperjaycie Jay Slater, 18, of Fountains Way, ACCRINGTON - 18 month community order with 25 days rehabilitation activities and 150 hours unpaid work. Convicted of violent disorder in August 2023, when he was aged 18. He is now 19. His codefendants were found guilty of witness intimidation, attempted robbery and conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. Throughout a trial at Preston Crown Court, all eight laughed and joked in a way the judge said showed disrespect. The judge said if the group had been convicted of the more serious charge of section 18 wounding, they would all have gone to youth custody. Tom Hilton, who was 17 at the time of the attack, suffered a head injury so serious his skull was exposed, and wounds to his shoulders and legs in the attack close to the Old Paper Mill in Hermitage Street, Rishton, in August 2021. The Daily Record: Eight thugs who split boy's head open with machete dodge jail The teens were slapped with community service after attacking Tom Hilton, who was 17 at the time, with a machete, an axe and a golf club. By Rachel Smith Eve Beattie 19 JUN 2024 Please compare pictures of the convicted Jay Slater in the Lancashire Telegraph article: Eight handed community and rehabilitation orders over attack 4th August 2023, with any other pictures of missing Jay. It is the same person. Tom Hilton, the victim, was jailed for 14 months, disqualified from driving for 25 months and must sit an extended re-test if he wants his licence back. He pled guilty to attempted burglary, theft of a motor vehicle and dangerous driving. Before conviction for these offences, he had 14 convictions for 28 offences. The court also heard that on committing these offences on February 12, Hilton was in breach of two community orders which had been imposed on him, one just three days earlier and one in November 2021 which was a two-year order. Recorder Timothy Hannam KC said: “You have an awful record for someone of your age. “You’ve had a great many chances to change your ways but these offences are so serious that only a custodial sentence is appropriate. “This was a prolonged period of bad driving being chased by police. The speeds were terrifyingly high in built up areas. You were lucky the streets were relatively empty." Source: Lancashire Telegraph - Rishton teen jailed for stealing car and taking police on 70mph chase 30th March 2023

What innocent man?

two wrongs don’t make a right

@@BreezyD-tr8bd Exactly, the Guy who was attacked def lived the same lifestyle and Has even gone on record that He had no ill will toward Jay and hoped He was found safe...Its a sad case, Jay made a bad decision and it cost Him his life.

Aren’t you thriving off agony just by writing this comment? Nice one ☝🏽

The victim was no innocent man.

😂😂

Yea cause you would know 😂

@@BreezyD-tr8bdwym? I’ve only heard the best things about wipes > toilet paper in general🤔

@@BreezyD-tr8bdaw did the wannabe gangbanger get his feelings hurt?

@@emilybarclay8831 aw the armchair detective couldn't think of anything better to say other than make baseless assumptions. Grow up you beg

Take a shortcut lol 14 hr walk. Tbf he and all of his mates didn't seem like the brightest bunch.

Why didn't the friends call a cab for him.

​@@TadhgcDoran Absolutely 💯

@@melodymacken9788 the whole thing is a bit off smelling right? Btw mackens of co.meath?

Except he wasn't even lost..he had supplies and was just hiking normally. It was the cops who insisted he was lost and that they "rescued" him. So, instead imagine you're a Scottish hiker who's just had their holiday ruined by witless cops sent out to find a chav hoodlum who'd been on a bender, and since they couldn't find him, they were desperate to salvage the situation and save face, so they insist they're "rescuing" you

@@kazumablackwing4270 Well, that's what the Scotsman claimed afterwards. Regardless, I don't remember the police stating they had rescued him at all. It was just the news reporters saying so. The area was probably closed for hiking those days because of Jay's disappearance (they close Masca every once in a while for weather conditions reasons, for instance), so it wouldn't be weird for the police to remove the man from there.

Imagine children not asking you to 'Imagine' on RU-vid anymore.. 🥔

​​@@Dave-hu5hroh its you again, still providing nothing of actual value i see. Be better or cease to be anything at all.

@@MisanthropicOcellus C'mon then Magnum mate.. What happened?

Agreed! Who cares? Why are so many people bothered?! If he came back alive, returned home and burgled their grannies house next month maybe then they’d change their tune!

in fact value was found, in helping the lost scottish hiker.

@@Satori-Automotive the Scottish hiker wasn’t lost. He was an experienced hiker just hiking in the area. The Tenerife cops/media put out that he was a lost hiker to make the cops and authorities look like they were doing something, but the guy himself said that he wasn’t lost.

Except the Rolex

Agree completely, trash took itself out.

Based.

Wow like mother like son I see.

I believe that the mother knows. Deep down she knows what has led to the demise of her son. One cannot just brush aside her original plea for people to let her son go. (a comment which triggered the theory machine into overdrive) and then there is the remarkable silence. No banging of drums or shouting off the rooftops demanding answers. It has all been casually accepted.

@@Lowshyne sometimes, judging a book by its cover works, i knew this lookin at her lol

Harsh

Spain had to make some effort in order to protect the tourism industry, even if he was a dirtbag

Because most people don't leave many crumbs to follow jays case has many loaves of bread leading in different directions causing much mystery and criminal activity

This was my issue too. Why the big publicity? People go missing ALL the time. This case was giving me Maddie McCann vibes tbph. WAY more media coverage than was necessary imho

​@@nixm9093👍 Exactly

No one in the Spanish police would have been privvy to Jay's sordid history at the time of arranging the search. They're just doing their job. Like I work in medicine and care for 800 patients a year. I dont know their history without going mining. It just demonstrates the quality of those in the police.

Many errors too. Don't take every word as being from the real story. It got all convoluted from the start because of many factors, but most of all because no-one could understand why he walked the wrong way after being told the bus was coming at 10 am (NOT every 10 minutes, nobody told him that) without water, phone charge or ever having seen a mountain before in his life. Simple answer, he was on drugs the entire weekend. Plays tricks with a mind.

Exactely... press talking of a poor child lost in the woods instead of an attempted murderer, drog dealer managing with criminals abroad

The same happens in Australia

seriously and they are always white

I agree, but yk the world looks on in horror and disgust at the US industrial prison complex. Doesn't seem to be working well so far. Just my view on it, I know it's a complex societal issue.

@@sadmermaid we should take notes from El Salvador

omg usa is no better!!!

Oh it's SUCH a perfect day

Ok but whet did he “reap”?

@@gregorylyons3025justice, nature took the trash out for society

@@gregorylyons3025death apparently. Same saying as “live by the sword die by the sword “ it’s very sad.

@@beckycantrell5547Sad? Karma got him!

I wouldnt wish this fate on anyone, but cant help taking a moment to reflect on Karma. The truth is in most of these cases we only hear good things about the victims because theyve already passed on and its considered tasteless to make them out to be anything less than saints. I prefer the grey areas, theyre far more interesting. And god he was a right little prick.

@@thesouluniversal he certainly was

He F'd around and found out. Don't rip off a Rolex on a small island while all high on drugs and not expect things to go sideways quickly

Basically, leaving that house like that, then heading off to a mountain after missing a bus? clearly hes running from the drug dealer and his buddy otherwise he'd just walk on the road with his thumb out and at worst the next bus would catch up with him

@@jarrodm9010 He probably tried selling it to the dealer, doubt the police even bothered looking

​@@TheKruxeddont give them so much credit. They were al as gormless as each other. He sat out in the open for over 20mins after missing that bus, just twitching. Not the actions of a scared person. Why even flee back to his airbnb where he'd be easiest to find? Jay acted weird becauae he was wired from taking stimulants. That's why his actions were illogical to any normal person who wasnt on drugs.

I live in a close knit rural area, this isn't just possible it's probable and it'll be an open secret on the island.

Ngl...i didn't expect that sentence to end that way💀💀

@@aurelia1108 lmfao 😂

There’s a news article I saw her asking today for funeral coats she’s milking it he’s a criminal and the apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree

From the cradle me thinks

Grifters ... no shame

@@emilywright3454 that's the one!

@@emilywright3454 Well it's not her fault if people keep donating for no reason.

Sorry not my job

@@SpicyTexan64 Yeah, that job requires having friends to hang out with so unfortunately you aren't qualified.

I dont think the plp in Jay's life were anything close to friends

it's called a sitter and so many people seemed to have missed the memo that you need one, is that natural selection.. i dunno, shit always seemed obvious to me.

@@SpicyTexan64 i see who doesnt get invited to the gatherings 🫵🤣

Exactly!

Or the Machete, in this instance.

😂😂😂 Bear or Man?

As a Brit, I definitely agree that our legal system is awful *but* the US is shockingly bad, too. Granted, things like murder get genuinely long sentences over there but there are a lot of questionable laws and regulations in the US. Things like poor food standards, gun laws/culture, anti-abortion laws, horrible worker's rights, etc. are just baffling!

@@Xenobat I agree those things as well, but any murder that wasn’t accidental should always be a life sentence.

@@Xenobat Britain has stricter abortion laws then much of America. It’s also not obvious to me your worker protection is better given Americans make far more money and have better benefits then Britons. Like if you exclude London from the UK it’s a country poorer then Mississippi

@@LetsBarkAndRoll There’s no such thing as accidental murder, that’s when manslaughter is the charge.

@@eriknervik9003 manslaughter and accidental murder is literally the same thing

Yip, sometimes the trash takes itself out...

The only thing they found was that he fell pretty hard. It would be hard to test what drugs he was on as his body was found in a bad state

@@elisazouza it's still a very likely conclusion

Despite all evidence suggesting he fell.. yknow bcause he fell..

Thank you! It’s driving me crazy that no one else is questioning this??? That’s gotta be literally impossible.

it's facebook, anyone still wasting their life away on that dead end money sucker IS an absolute nutter, it's just a written at this point.

They always are, haha.

Either they're old enough to do drugs and alcohol or they're not old enough to do drugs and alcohol

@@SpicyTexan64I think I'm completely missing the point you're trying to make

I think his friend group was pretty much the same as he was.

It's Scooby's Doo fault 😂

​@@SpicyTexan64 exactly.

I’m about 4mins in and all ready im seriously debating this ‘gang’ talk

The one member who subscribes to this circus clown of reporting

Yeah you say that but dire trip fully knew well that Jay was found by the time this video was posted. And further that he was not a victim to any crime. This weasel of a ‘reporter’ missed his deadline and just continued with his BS narrative. Absolutely shameless.

Yh that was awful they dealt w it soooooi badly

Yep, if ppl can't be bothered to investigate properly, they just rule it as accidental fall

They set up a go fund me page almost immediately as well , maybe both needed ransom money and both failed .

@@stefanhinchliffe5318 well given that Nicola bulley’s time of death matched when she was last seen… no. But Lancashire police are a joke. I wouldn’t want their help either.

Oh ffs not again. People can’t have accidents can they?

Nah. Don't worry. You're fine. Most of us over here in the UK feel the same.

@@andersondasilva1334 Yes. He was involved in a machete attack on a rival gang member, which resulted in a 17 year old getting his skull cracked.

@@andersondasilva1334 I forgot to mention the golf clubs and the axe they also used to mame the victim. If that's not enough for you I don't know what to say. You clearly have a different moral compass to most law-abiding citizens.

@@andersondasilva1334 Oh 100% he was and his family too, so I hear.

That's fair

Sus from jay, Tenerife cops, UK cops?

Just like the rest of the English

@@NathanMatthews.I'm English and can confirm this is true

Except you see one photo of him and his mates and they all look like little 🔔 🔚

He took it out of the video after realizing it wasn't relevant

Do you have a link to that circulated video by any chance?

@@sarahr9894 ah nice one, I’ve seen his edit comment that he made not too long after I made this

@@michaelrathbone67 I can’t link but look up “how much did that fresh Rolex set you back?”

Ive posted about 6 discrepancies for this video. The guy “Dire trip” is an absolute clown of a reporter. He’s seriously pathetic and just aping on the tragedy of jay slater. Rip

Some of the details in this video are incorrect.

Start with the first videos and work your way through you will be mind blown

​@@smith549371no they are not

That Lucy was such a know-it-all young Karen. Yapping that she knows how to conduct a search and how to deploy choppers & tracking dogs. Like she has a clue how any of that works irl, not on Cornation St

It's also _vastly_ more expensive to send up a single helicopter to search than to have multiple drones able to not only cover the same area but in less time. The fuel bill alone for a helicopter starts in the $1,000's for just a few hours of flight, and they have to burn time & fuel travelling to/from the nearest heliport.... drones are launched from the search location itself, and can be used underneath canopy, in valleys & other areas that heli's just can't get to. Drones are incredibly valuable SAR tools.

@@medea27 On the other hand, a helicopter could be potentially better if the person is still alive and conscious, since all the noise it creates (even from the distance) would alert the person and probably they would be more able to make sure they are seen by the helicopter. Every method has its cons and pros, I guess.

@@TheDramacist My thought was that the dogs probably didn't need something of his for a scent because they were cadaver dogs. That or if they were search and rescue, they'd already been given something for a scent and she was just interfering.

Because he wasn’t there. I don’t think anyone will find out the real truth, but there are so many twists,it’s mind boggling. I’ve said this on another video, a coronor report will provide the exact time of death and how the death occurred. In the U.K. you would have had a full forensic team on this case.

@ryanboothroyd7037 yeah exactly I recon he was put there when euro final was on and why were his clothes nxt to him

Locals.say police found him on friday​@@strawbcollins