Coronation Street star reveals connection to missing Jay Slater saying she’s heartbroken as police search Tenerife
A CORONATION Street star begged fans to pray for missing teen Jay Slater as police comb Tenerife for him.
Vicky Entwhistle, who used to play Janice Battersby in the ITV soap, shared the heartbreaking post today as Jay’s grandma flew out to join the search.
Jay Slater, 19, from Lancashire, was on the island for a music festival and vanished after making a desperate phone call to his pals saying he was in the “middle of nowhere”.
He spent Sunday night with pals he had just met before disappearing on his way home in the morning.
Vicky shared one of the missing posters circulating online, adding: “My God Mother’s Grandson has gone missing. His Mother has flown out 7pm. To join the police search.
“Hope to God they find him. Please pray for him.”
Fans flocked to the comments to offer reassurance, with one saying: “Saw this on Facebook Vicky, it seems to be getting shared far and wide, hopefully there will be some good news imminently with all the love and support out there, just makes it so much harder when abroad! Love and prayers for you all.”
Another offered: “We are in Tenerife if we can help in any way let us know.”
The teenager’s last-known location was Teno Rural Park in the north-west of Tenerife – a popular hiking spot.
He was last heard from at 8am on Monday morning when he made a frantic call to a friend saying he was lost, needed water and had 1 per cent battery left on his phone.
A Civil Guard spokeswoman in Tenerife said the force was desperately trying to find Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, with the help of mountain rescue teams and police helicopters.
She said: “A specialist Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group called the Greim have been mobilised.
“A police helicopter is also out and focusing on the area around the village of Masca.
“Other emergency services including firefighters have also been mobilised.
“Everything possible is being done to try to find the missing man.”
The people Jay met were staying in an apartment “in the middle of nowhere”, his close friend Lucy told the Manchester Evening News.
Lucy called Jay on Monday morning after he spent the night with his friends and he told her he was walking back to their holiday home.
He told her he “didn’t know where he was” and he needed a drink of water before the call cut off.
Tracking his phone, Lucy said the last location was in the middle of the mountains in Teno Rural Park.
Lucy told Manchester Evening News: “He’s gone on a night out, he’s gone to a friend’s house, someone that he has met on holiday.
“One of the people he has met has hired a car out of here, so he’s driven them back to his apartment and Jay has gone there not realising how far away it is.
“He’s ended up out in the middle of nowhere. Jay was obviously thinking he would be able to get home from there.”
The Brit was last seen wearing a white t-shirt and shorts with a black bag on him.
He is believed to have gone straight from the NRG festival in Tenerife to the home of his new friends before he left them at around 8am on Monday.