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Privacy NoticeDetective-turned-TV-investigator Mark Williams-Thomas, who is looking into the tragic death of teenager Jay Slater, has hinted that an update could be on the horizon in a new video. The sleuth had previously flown to Spain to meet with Jay’s family during his disappearance in June and pledged to “get them answers”. Now, he’s revealed that he’s been continuing his investigations behind closed doors. Apprentice bricklayer Jay, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was holidaying in Tenerife and attending a music festival with pals when he disappeared on 17 June. Heartbreakingly, Jay’s remains were found nearly a month later, on 15 July, near the village of Masca, just metres from where he was last seen. An initial autopsy suggested that Jay died due to a “fall or plunge from height”, with the Civil Guard confirming that Jay suffered multiple broken bones.
Jay Slater’s remains were found on 15 July
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While these findings provided some solace for his loved ones, it’s still unclear why Jay ventured out alone. However, in a fresh video posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Monday, 14 October, Mark Williams-Thomas said he had news regarding his “involvement with the Jay Slater case” after taking a break from social media, reports the Manchester Evening News. He stated that although he always believed Jay’s death was a “tragic accident”, there are other updates about Jay’s movements before his disappearance that have yet to be disclosed “I worked very closely with the family and as a result of that, got a lot of information, but also a lot of information from potential witnesses, people involved, people who knew Jay and also the authorities in a roundabout way,” he shared. “One of the things that’s very clear is there is a huge amount of misinformation. I’ve been back and looked through some of the videos that I took when I went out there, in relation to my investigation and thought processes of whilst the investigation was going on. “You find information out, you look at that, and then a couple of days later that information changes or is evidenced in some way. Some of the information that came to me in the early days wasn’t accurate and wasn’t correct and I needed to validate it.”
Mark Williams-Thomas has been looking into the tragic death of teenager Jay Slater
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Sign up to OK!’s daily newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free Mark revealed that he had “access to the family, mobile phone records and friends” of Jay during his investigations and that there “wasn’t a single friend who stepped away and didn’t engage” with him as he delved into the teenager’s disappearance back in June, including maintaining regular contact with one of the men that Jay stayed with at the secluded Masca Airbnb rental the night before he disappeared. He confessed that he has not yet disclosed details of “considerable issues that existed” and why Jay “left in the manner he did” and “didn’t want to return” but hinted that they might be unveiled “when the time is right”. “I’ve got to be very careful. What I don’t want to do is upset the family with any more trauma than they have already had and so it would be something I would work very closely with Debbie and the family on to reveal that information. And maybe the time will be right soon to be able to do that, but not right now,” he expressed. “I’ve spoken in the last few days to Debbie; we get on very well. There is no issue with that at all,” he added. “She’s a mother who lost her child and not just that, but was in the eye of a media storm.
The investigator said Jay’s mother was in the ‘eye of a media storm’
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“This was an inquiry that hit headlines not just in the UK, but worldwide. People became fascinated and it took on a life of its own and, as a result of that, there were lots of conspiracy theories and people with their own views in terms of what happened. “But I was literally at the heart of it, able to establish information from different parties, collect that information and look to see what evidential value it had. I was very clear from day one that this looked like a tragic accident.”Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnIn the News
