Police search missing Jay Slater's Tenerife apartment for clues after mum sent terrifying message on Snapchat

Police have searched missing Jay Slater's Tenerife holiday apartment for clues to his whereabouts as the major search to find the teenager continues.

Officers went into the room he was sharing with a friend at a three-star apartment complex in Los Cristianos, in the south of the island, as the teenager’s worried mum Debbie said she feared 'something bad' happened to him and that he was being held 'against his will.'

Mum Debbie says she has been sent a terrifying Snapchat message saying 'kiss goodbye to your boy', claiming that Jay owed the sender 'lots of money'.

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"I got a Snapchat about ten minutes after I got off the plane saying ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.’ which I passed on to police with the number it came from because I had my wits about me at the time and got my eldest son Zac to take a screen grab before it disappeared," she said.

Debbie has already been the victim of 'sickening' prank calls about her son's disappearance, and seeing several GoFundMe pages set up in Jay's name.

Apprentice bricklayer Jay, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, was reported missing on Monday (June 17). He had flown out to holiday on the island with pals for the NRG music festival but disappeared after going to stay with people he met after a night out.

Jay was booked on a flight back to the UK on Thursday morning (June 20) but has still not returned. A major search is continuing on the Spanish island, involving police dogs, mountain rescue teams and members of his friends and family.

His concerned mum Debbie Duncan, who has now been joined in Tenerife by