JAY Slater left the Airbnb he went to with two men feeling “scared” before he vanished, an investigator claims.
Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas said the 19-year-old did not want to return to the remote holiday let despite having little phone battery.
Apprentice bricklayer Jay, who had been at a rave all night in Playa de las Americas, went to the Airbnb in Masca village in the early hours of June 17.
He shared a final Snapchat from the cottage holding a cigarette at 7.30am.
Jay then tried to make his way back to his holiday accommodation, but after missing the bus was faced with an 11-hour walk.
At around 8.50am he made a final frantic call to friend Lucy, telling her he was lost in the “middle of nowhere” with no water and had just one per cent battery on his phone.
The two men Jay was with in the last hours before he disappeared spoke to police on the island before jetting back to the UK.
They have been deemed “not relevant” to the investigation by Spanish police.
But Mark – who worked on the Madeleine McCann case – has now claimed Jay fled the holiday let and was “scared”.
He said: “We have received information that would suggest that Jay left the rental property feeling scared and he would not return to the rental, even though that would have been the most sensible course of action, and also where he could have charged his phone, got water and made contact with friends.”
