Jay Slater - British teenager missing in Tenerife

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.

Preston Crown Court heard Mr Hilton had gone to the mill - a popular meeting place for local teens - to look for a teenage girl. However, as he arrived he was chased by a group of boys he later described as "like a pack of gorillas." He ran through the woods and onto the road, where the gang caught up with him, the court heard.

At the time, around 50 young people were in the area, and as the gang of eight surrounded Mr Hilton, each either attacked him directly with weapons or fists or encouraged the others. Judge Philip Parry said they acted together.

Throughout a trial at Preston Crown Court, all eight laughed and joked in a way the judge said showed disrespect. "Many of you have found these proceedings amusing throughout the trial and yesterday and today, showing disrespect to the court. I hope for the sake of all your families, the public and the people who have offered you jobs and apprenticeships and the sort that you all grow up. Every one of you deserves to be sent to youth detention.

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. However, he said he took a rehabilitative approach when sentencing them for violent disorder and further offences including witness intimidation, attempted robbery and conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Jay Slater, 18, of Fountains Way, Accrington - 18 month community order with 25 days rehabilitation activities and 150 hours unpaid work.

I'm confused about the dates here. Was his sentence of an "18 month community order" handed down just this week, while he himself was vacationing (and ultimately going missing) in the Canary Islands?

Apologies R2 - the original reporting of the court case was from August 2023, so 10 months ago.

The story has been republished by all the Reach media groups as they realised it's linked to the Tenerife case.

It's unlikely that the cases are directly linked, but it makes me think he is probably a dumb, aggressive chav who pissed off the wrong people.

[quote]At first I wondered if it was a Grindr hook up gone wrong, then a dodgy drug deal.

So basically what the DL asserts is behind every missing person/unexplained death case that crosses our desk despite the fact that it almost never is?

British again!!! Are we surprised? Even today they rape and pillage. Divide and conquer.

R6 Zzzzzzzzz

Eat some really filthy shit r7, perhaps the Brits should have Zzzzzzzzz, the world wouldn't be in the state it is, shithead.

Based on the judge's sentencing in the Hilton case, it's obvious that the British legal system is hopeless. Anyone who thinks kids who do what that gang did can be rehabilitated is seriously naive. And I'm sure the thugs' parents don't give a toss what their kids do.

The victim's suffering is, of course, immaterial.

Have they checked his Uber Eats history? Is there an order for lunchables?

Divine justice….

Plot twist: the kid they attacked had a favorite uncle who retired to the Canary Islands…he was waiting for just this opportunity.

Feral children.

Check the brackish water!

R13, Facebook has done even better than that.

Molly comedown the morning after. What about the two male 'friends' he stayed with that night?

The BBC filmed in his home town where the locals are tying blue ribbons to lampposts.

No oak trees where he’s from?

[quote]Madeleine McCann has donated £5 to the fund to find Jay Slater.. What is happening

The #jayslater hashtag is comedy gold, I tell you.

The last one is reminiscent of a "fat womon" on garbage detail.

Hopefully the little monster was meted out the same of what he gave that poor kid.

No media is reporting that he was involved in bashing up others. They just write about how his friends and family think he’s a saint.

[quote] No media is reporting that he was involved in bashing up others. They just write about how his friends and family think he’s a saint.

Because he was a under 18 when convicted there may be a privacy issue why mainstream media are not reporting that aspect.

And there is also sensitivity about potentially victim blaming.

The Daily Mail tries to get around this by reporting that the mother has been compared to Karen Matthews by cruel trolls. That’s Karen Matthews, mother of missing child Shannon Matthews.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Daily Mail now reporting on previous gang attack

Mr Hilton would not be welcome on datalounge with that spelling. Needs a full stop or two and ‘he’s farmily’. My sisters are both obsessed with this case.

He was 18, named and his photograph published at the time, r23, and the same happened with most of his fellow thugs, except two who were then 16.

I do think his violent behaviour is pertinent. It shows that he's a scoundrel who could have been getting up to anything in Tenerife.

Link to an article originally published last year.

[quote]He was 18, named and his photograph published at the time, r23, and the same happened with most of his fellow thugs, except two who were then 16.

The attack on Thomas Hilton took place in 2021, when Slater was 16.

When the trial started in April 2023 Slater was 17 and wasn't named publicly but when the trial concluded with a guilty verdict in May 2023 he had turned 18 and was named. When sentencing took place in August 2023 the 16 year old were named as well.

In other words, Slater was already named last year, at the time of sentencing, and his photo published, r28. His involvement in the attack on Hilton has been known since last year.

From the article linked at r27, the two who were still under 18 at the time of the sentencing in August 2023 could not be named.

The sentencing was a joke anyway - community service for attacking someone so violently that his skull was exposed.

The mother of Jay Slater's best friend told the BBC a deluge of online trolling has added to their "living nightmare".

Ms Hargreaves, a chef from Accrington in Lancashire, said a troll even impersonated her late mother, who died eight months ago.

Is someone missing if no one cares he's gone?

Poor Jay could live off the stores in his ample posterior for a couple of weeks.

Like a camel.

Police search called off, and the mother has started spending the cash raised through the gofundme.

I'm guessing a criminal adventure gone wrong and his body has been disposed of.

Ten a reef?

Once again, Brits can't stay home, causing trouble somewhere else, was he getting his new teefs?

His gofundme is now at 44k.

There's a lot explained in the BBC article in the OP.

[quote]Reporting from the scene, the BBC's Nick Garnett described the Rural de Teno as a "remote and wild national park", with cold nights and high winds.

[quote]"Deep ravines and huge daunting mountains make the national park a difficult place for the Spanish search teams to navigate, but one mountain rescue worker told me this is not the first time they’ve been called out to the area," he said.

[quote]"At night, the countryside becomes a maze, pitch black and disorientating."

[quote]He said search and rescue teams are concentrating on one particular valley near the top of a mountain pass, and a helicopter has been sighted for the first time this afternoon.

And more:

[quote]Mr Slater's mother, Debbie Duncan, has told the BBC her son was on his first holiday abroad with friends.

[quote]She flew to the island and joined the search, and said: "I've not slept at all, it's like it's not real."

[quote]Apprentice bricklayer, Mr Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, had attended the three-day NRG music festival in Playa de las Americas in the south of the island.

[quote]He left with two men he met there and ended up in a house about 40 minutes drive away in a rural area.

[quote]Ms Law said he told her he had missed a bus, and was instead attempting the 10-hour walk back the accommodation, but the call then ended.

[quote]When the Guardia Civil spokeswoman was asked if officers had spoken to the two men Mr Slater left the festival with, she said: "It's part of the investigation, I cannot tell you more."

BBC article at R33 about the search being called off (though the investigation remains active):

[quote]The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, had been attending the NRG music festival on 16 June, and his friends said they were out in the tourist hotspot of Playa de las Americas when he was seen getting into a car with two British men he met earlier in the night.

[quote]The next morning, 17 June, he was tagged in a photo posted on Snapchat at 07:30 BST at an Airbnb in Masca, which was reportedly being rented by the two men.

[quote]Investigators have spoken to the pair and they are "not in any way relevant to the case".

[quote]He was last heard from before 09:00 BST in the Rural de Teno Park, where he called a friend to say he had missed the bus and was trying to make the 10-hour walk back to their accommodation in the south of the island.

[quote]Lucy Law said Mr Slater told her during a frantic phone call that he was "lost in the mountains", desperately needed a drink and had 1% battery on his phone.

[quote]Best friend Brad Hargreaves told ITV's This Morning he received a video call from Mr Slater around the same time in which he appeared to be sliding off a designated path, with the call showing his feet on rough ground.

So it's obvious the police thinks he got lost and died of exposure.

Agreed, R37. There's no way he's still in hiding and the whole thing is a big scam.

Armchair detectives will never accept the reality is a lot less dramatic than their conjectures.

He now has something in common with celebrity doctor, Michael Moseley.

[quote] [CAPTION:]Jay's friend Lucy Mae Law (pictured), 18, has blasted Spanish police for rejecting an offer from British officers to help

I say Lucy Mae Law knows more than she's saying. She was the one who reportedly received the missing man's last or next to last phone call. Maybe she can demonstrate the call having been received, but I wonder that her report of the content is accurate. Her blaming the Spanish police is at once very British and wrong-headed -- suggesting that the Lancashire police were going to crack the case and/or find a body in rough terrain.

And interesting that the Spanish police say they interviewed the two men to whose apartment the missing man went, and declared that they are definitely not implicated in the least.

Missing persons cases are quite rare in Spain and they receive a great deal of police and media and volunteer attention (and social media where people post and repost flyers of missing persons.). An old.man who wanders from his family home, a young adult with some developmental or mental or personal.problems, a tourist who misses a connection...these stories get loads of attention and sympathy and leads because the situation is so rare.

A body has been found

from BBC news - looks like case closed. He was dehydrated disoriented and trying to walk 10 hours back to his lodging in the middle of the night. Fell down a ravine.

RIP. I'm not sure I've ever seen a missing person turn into a meme quite as rapidly as Jay did.

[quote]trying to walk 10 hours

r42 Crazy under any circumstance. Do NOT attempt to walk more than three hours at a time anywhere, even on flat terrain, unless you're properly equipped and used to it from regular hiking. It's too much of a shock to the system, something is bound to go wrong.