THE GoFundMe web page set as much as increase cash for the household of lacking Brit teen Jay Slater has surpassed its aim in simply three days.
Arrange by Jay’s pal Lucy Legislation, the fundraising web page aimed to gather £30,000 for his family as they search for him in Tenerife.
Now solely days after it was created, with nearly 3,000 donations, the web page now sits at greater than £30,500.
Jay’s anxious mum Debbie Duncan launched a press release as we speak thanking the general public for his or her generosity on the web page.
She wrote: “Hello everybody, that is Debbie, Jay’s mom. Thanks all on your generosity and kindness throughout this tough time.
“We’re extraordinarily anxious and are doing every part we will to search out Jay. Please proceed to share our fundraiser far and vast.
“Your help means the world to us, and we’re grateful for any assist you may present.”
Debbie reassured these contributing to the web page that the cash would not be used for something over than bills to stay in Tenerife.
A minimum of 15 of Jay’s household and associates have flown out to the vacation island as rescue efforts enter the seventh day.
Jay’s mum Debbie is accompanied by his dad Warren Slater and brother Zak.
Debbie wrote: “I wished to substantiate that that is the one GoFundMe fundraiser permitted by our household.
“We have now not but withdrawn any funds and are presently masking the bills, such because the journey to Tenerife and lodging, ourselves.
“The funds will stay on maintain with GoFundMe till we put up an extra replace on this web page.”
It comes as…
Lucy was the final individual to talk to her buddy Jay earlier than he vanished in northern Tenerife on Monday.
On Sunday night he had gone to a rave with buddies Lucy and Brad however left with two new folks he’d simply met.
After staying at their accommodation near Masca village, Jay missed the bus house on Monday morning and was confronted with a 10-hour stroll.
He made a panicked telephone name to Lucy to tell her he was lost in the middle of nowhere, his telephone was about to die and he wanted water.
Native cops as we speak focused their efforts around several small buildings in the desolate parkland near Jay’s final identified location within the Rural de Teno park.
Footage from the mammoth search op as we speak present rescue staff scouring the sparse brush land round two small brick buildings.
One firefighter aware of the world has stated it’s “unusual” that Jay hasn’t been discovered but.
Riccardo, from the Brigada Forestal companies, informed Manchester Night Information: “It’s totally tough to search out folks right here, due to the ravines and the mountains.
“I’ve seen the case and concerning the lacking boy on the web… however the days are actually passing by and it is more and more unusual that he hasn’t appeared but.
“The data we’ve got is that Jay [and his friends] have been going to a music pageant, and afterwards, the final signal of him was round right here within the Teno Rural Park.
“I do not know if he was strolling, mountaineering… I simply do not know. That is the place I lose the thread.”
Timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance
By Ellie Doughty, International Information Reporter
SUNDAY JUNE 16 – MONDAY 17
Jay goes to a rave on the 2024 NRG music pageant in Tenerife, round Arona on the south of the island
8.35pm – Jay posts a smiling Snapchat video of him laughing with associates
He leaves the rave with two males he met that day and is pushed again to their lodging throughout the island
MONDAY 17
7.30am – Jay posts a Snapchat of a hand holding a cigarette within the space the place the lodging was – close to the agricultural de Teno Park on the north of the island
8.30am – Jay calls his buddy Lucy Legislation and tells her he missed a bus, had one per cent of battery left on his telephone and was caught within the “center of nowhere”
9am – A lacking individuals report is filed and the seek for Jay begins
TUESDAY 18
2am – Police knock on the door of Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan’s house and inform her to catch the primary flight out to Tenerife
7am – She flies out from Manchester Airport alongside her son Zak to assist with the search
Debbie is shipped a Snapchat message saying “Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re by no means going to see him once more, he owes me some huge cash.”
WEDNESDAY 19
12.30pm – Police transfer the search to the south of the island briefly after a false sighting
Cops search his resort room for clues as his mum says there was “nothing untoward there”
Debbie provides a heart-wrenching interview the place she shares fears he has been “taken” and says “I simply need my child again”
THURSDAY 20
Cops start day 4 of the large seek for Jay
FRIDAY 21
Lancashire cops supply to assist with the search however Tenerife authorities say they’re “happy that they’ve the assets they want”
Search turns to 22,000ft ravine in Masca – a part of an space dubbed “the badlands” by locals
SATURDAY 22
The sixth day of the search begins with sniffer canine, cops, mountain rescue and firefighters once more taking to the hills in northern Tenerife
Potential new sighting of Jay locations him close to a church with two males at 6pm on Monday – though unconfirmed by police
Jay’s dad Warren and brother Zak go to the search web site in Tenerife
SUNDAY 23
Cops focus their search round small outbuildings in de Teno park close to the place Jay’s telephone final pinged
Jay’s mum Debbie says trolls are evaluating her to Karen Matthews
The GoFundMe arrange by Jay’s buddy Lucy surpasses £30,000 after simply three days
Unique Solar footage exhibits Jay showing to fall and stumble again up at a rave earlier than he vanished
THE GoFundMe web page set as much as increase cash for the household of lacking Brit teen Jay Slater has surpassed its aim in simply three days.
Arrange by Jay’s pal Lucy Legislation, the fundraising web page aimed to gather £30,000 for his family as they search for him in Tenerife.
Now solely days after it was created, with nearly 3,000 donations, the web page now sits at greater than £30,500.
Jay’s anxious mum Debbie Duncan launched a press release as we speak thanking the general public for his or her generosity on the web page.
She wrote: “Hello everybody, that is Debbie, Jay’s mom. Thanks all on your generosity and kindness throughout this tough time.
“We’re extraordinarily anxious and are doing every part we will to search out Jay. Please proceed to share our fundraiser far and vast.
“Your help means the world to us, and we’re grateful for any assist you may present.”
Debbie reassured these contributing to the web page that the cash would not be used for something over than bills to stay in Tenerife.
A minimum of 15 of Jay’s household and associates have flown out to the vacation island as rescue efforts enter the seventh day.
Jay’s mum Debbie is accompanied by his dad Warren Slater and brother Zak.
Debbie wrote: “I wished to substantiate that that is the one GoFundMe fundraiser permitted by our household.
“We have now not but withdrawn any funds and are presently masking the bills, such because the journey to Tenerife and lodging, ourselves.
“The funds will stay on maintain with GoFundMe till we put up an extra replace on this web page.”
It comes as…
Lucy was the final individual to talk to her buddy Jay earlier than he vanished in northern Tenerife on Monday.
On Sunday night he had gone to a rave with buddies Lucy and Brad however left with two new folks he’d simply met.
After staying at their accommodation near Masca village, Jay missed the bus house on Monday morning and was confronted with a 10-hour stroll.
He made a panicked telephone name to Lucy to tell her he was lost in the middle of nowhere, his telephone was about to die and he wanted water.
Native cops as we speak focused their efforts around several small buildings in the desolate parkland near Jay’s final identified location within the Rural de Teno park.
Footage from the mammoth search op as we speak present rescue staff scouring the sparse brush land round two small brick buildings.
One firefighter aware of the world has stated it’s “unusual” that Jay hasn’t been discovered but.
Riccardo, from the Brigada Forestal companies, informed Manchester Night Information: “It’s totally tough to search out folks right here, due to the ravines and the mountains.
“I’ve seen the case and concerning the lacking boy on the web… however the days are actually passing by and it is more and more unusual that he hasn’t appeared but.
“The data we’ve got is that Jay [and his friends] have been going to a music pageant, and afterwards, the final signal of him was round right here within the Teno Rural Park.
“I do not know if he was strolling, mountaineering… I simply do not know. That is the place I lose the thread.”
Timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance
By Ellie Doughty, International Information Reporter
SUNDAY JUNE 16 – MONDAY 17
Jay goes to a rave on the 2024 NRG music pageant in Tenerife, round Arona on the south of the island
8.35pm – Jay posts a smiling Snapchat video of him laughing with associates
He leaves the rave with two males he met that day and is pushed again to their lodging throughout the island
MONDAY 17
7.30am – Jay posts a Snapchat of a hand holding a cigarette within the space the place the lodging was – close to the agricultural de Teno Park on the north of the island
8.30am – Jay calls his buddy Lucy Legislation and tells her he missed a bus, had one per cent of battery left on his telephone and was caught within the “center of nowhere”
9am – A lacking individuals report is filed and the seek for Jay begins
TUESDAY 18
2am – Police knock on the door of Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan’s house and inform her to catch the primary flight out to Tenerife
7am – She flies out from Manchester Airport alongside her son Zak to assist with the search
Debbie is shipped a Snapchat message saying “Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re by no means going to see him once more, he owes me some huge cash.”
WEDNESDAY 19
12.30pm – Police transfer the search to the south of the island briefly after a false sighting
Cops search his resort room for clues as his mum says there was “nothing untoward there”
Debbie provides a heart-wrenching interview the place she shares fears he has been “taken” and says “I simply need my child again”
THURSDAY 20
Cops start day 4 of the large seek for Jay
FRIDAY 21
Lancashire cops supply to assist with the search however Tenerife authorities say they’re “happy that they’ve the assets they want”
Search turns to 22,000ft ravine in Masca – a part of an space dubbed “the badlands” by locals
SATURDAY 22
The sixth day of the search begins with sniffer canine, cops, mountain rescue and firefighters once more taking to the hills in northern Tenerife
Potential new sighting of Jay locations him close to a church with two males at 6pm on Monday – though unconfirmed by police
Jay’s dad Warren and brother Zak go to the search web site in Tenerife
SUNDAY 23
Cops focus their search round small outbuildings in de Teno park close to the place Jay’s telephone final pinged
Jay’s mum Debbie says trolls are evaluating her to Karen Matthews
The GoFundMe arrange by Jay’s buddy Lucy surpasses £30,000 after simply three days
Unique Solar footage exhibits Jay showing to fall and stumble again up at a rave earlier than he vanished