Jay Slater admitted to friends that he stole a £12,000 Rolex watch and was trying to sell it just hours before the British teenager went missing, a former detective has claimed.
Mark Williams-Thomas, who is probing the 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer’s disappearance from a remote mountainous area of Tenerife, posted an update on X on Wednesday morning.
WHAT THE POLICE SAID
The TV detective said he had spoken to Jay’s friends who revealed the missing raver had sent them a Snapchat in the early hours of June 17 in which he admitted to stealing the luxury timepiece.
Mr Williams-Thomas said Jay was headed in a Seat Leon hire car to the rented Casa Abuela Tina Airbnb near the village of Masca with two older British men when he made the shock revelation.
Although the TV detective has not been able to verify that an alleged theft took place, he said friends of Jay have told him that the missing teenager would not have made it up.
He said he was making the new information public to ‘given the massive interest in this case’ and to ‘provide some clarity to clear up the total inaccuracies and misreporting of information’ in connection with the case.
