Jay Slater 'admitted to friends he stole £12,000 Rolex and was trying to sell it' hours before he vanished: Investigator reveals dramatic new revelation in missing teenager probe By Arthur Parashar Published: 07:22 EDT, 3 July 2024 | Updated: 08:52 EDT, 3 July 2024 e-mail 292 shares 1.5k View comments Jay Slater admitted to friends that he stole a £12,000 Rolex watch and was trying to sell it just hours before he vanished, 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.
The investigator, who also probed Nicola Bulley's disappearance, claimed Jay's friends 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 that 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 just after 6am when he made the shocking Rolex claim. MailOnline today revealed the first picture of one of those men, who used the name Ayub Abdul to book the £40-a-night holiday rental online.
Although the former police detective has not been able to verify that an alleged theft took place, he said friends of Jay have assured him that the missing teenager would not have made it up. Mr Williams-Thomas said he was making the new information public to 'provide some clar.
