{"id":87691,"date":"2024-07-04T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/jay-slater-tiktok-star-quits-search-and-says-hes-never-had-any-money-from-gofundme\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:48:12","slug":"jay-slater-tiktok-star-quits-search-and-says-hes-never-had-any-money-from-gofundme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/jay-slater-tiktok-star-quits-search-and-says-hes-never-had-any-money-from-gofundme\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Slater: TikTok star quits search and says he’s ‘never had any money’ from GoFundMe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A volunteer search party has pulled out of the hunt for Jay Slater, insisting they have not seen a penny of the money raised to help find the missing teenager.<\/p>\n

Callum Fahim, who flew to Tenerife<\/a><\/strong> after contacting the 19-year-old’s mother online, said he has withdrawn after two weeks of looking – and receiving death threats.<\/p>\n

He plans to return to the UK today.<\/p>\n

Mr Slater<\/a><\/strong> was last heard from on 17 June after setting off on a walk back to his accommodation – a journey of about 11 hours.<\/p>\n

Police called off the land hunt on 30 June<\/a><\/strong> after 12 days, but Mr Slater’s mother Debbie Duncan said she and her family will remain on the Spanish island.<\/p>\n

In a statement on a GoFundMe page set up to help fund the search for her son – which has raised almost \u00a350,000 – Ms Duncan thanked Spanish authorities and supporters.<\/p>\n

She said part of the funds will be used<\/a><\/strong> to support volunteers hunting for Mr Slater in the mountain – but Mr Fahim has told Sky News he has not received any of the money.<\/p>\n

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Referencing Mr Fahim and another TikTok user<\/a><\/strong> who jetted to Tenerife to help, Ms Duncan wrote<\/a><\/strong>: “We are currently looking after Paul Arnett (sic), putting together a package of any equipment and essentials he needs and going up to do a drop for him.<\/p>\n

“We are also supporting Callum Fahim and his group with accommodation and other essentials.”<\/p>\n

The remaining money would be used to support rescue teams, Ms Duncan said, as well as her family’s “own expenses as we remain in Tenerife looking for our boy”.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky News after the statement, Mr Fahim, who is in his twenties, insisted: “I haven’t had anything from the GoFundMe.<\/p>\n

“We have not had a bit of essentials paid for.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never had any money from them whatsoever or even offers to go and pick anything up.<\/p>\n

“If they had offered it, personally I would’ve said maybe a bit of a treat at the end of the week, but don’t worry about it.”<\/p>\n

Read more:
Bar apologises for ‘offensive’ Jay Slater joke<\/a><\/strong>
Key questions around the disappearance<\/a>
Final search effort dismissed as ‘massive PR thing’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mr Fahim, who has been in contact with Ms Duncan through online messages, said he and a search party, including a local hiking group, had retraced all of the likely routes Mr Slater may have taken.<\/p>\n

One of the group, Milly, who lives on the island and knows the area well, said: “My group and I live here, we don’t need accommodation.<\/p>\n

“We haven’t received a bottle of water. We haven’t had anything and we wouldn’t take it. We haven’t even had a thank you.”<\/p>\n

Ms Duncan’s GoFundMe statement appears to have since been edited and no longer mentions Mr Fahim.<\/p>\n

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Mr Fahim, who along with Mr Arnott is one of several TikTokers to have joined the search, said he paid to fly to Tenerife himself.<\/p>\n

“It’s getting very out of control. The situation here is very dangerous at the moment,” he said. “I have had death threats.<\/p>\n

“I had a long conversation with her [Ms Duncan] and decided I’m withdrawing.”<\/p>\n

On Thursday afternoon, Ms Duncan addressed speculation over the GoFundMe in a post on a Facebook group set up to help find her son.<\/p>\n

The message, posted by her friend, read: “For those of you who are more concerned around the Gofundme page I can assure you that up to now it has not been used and our stay up to now has been financed by ourselves.<\/p>\n

“I do have proof of transactions and transfers to other persons but I should not have to justify this.<\/p>\n

“So you can make up your own minds. If any of you in this group have donated I am thankful.”<\/p>\n

The hunt in the northern village of Masca, near Mr Slater’s last-known location, took in a steep rocky area, ravines and trails.<\/p>\n

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Helicopters, drones and search dogs were deployed to find the apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, but without success.<\/p>\n

Ms Duncan wrote although the police land search – which “involved every resource they had available” – had ended, officers will “continue with their investigations into why Jay had travelled to the location so far away from his accommodation”.<\/p>\n

Jay Slater’s last known whereabouts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Slater travelled to Tenerife with friends on 13 June to attend a music festival at Papagayo nightclub in the southern resort of Playa de las Americas on 16 June.<\/p>\n

After he left the event, he got in a car early the next morning and travelled to a small Airbnb in Masca with two men<\/a><\/strong>, who police said were “not relevant” to the case.<\/p>\n

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At 8.30am on 17 June, he called his friend Lucy Law, telling her he missed his bus and had tried to walk back to his accommodation.<\/p>\n

He said he had “cut his leg” on a cactus, had “no idea where he was”, was “lost in the mountains” and his phone battery was on “1%”, Miss Law said. Shortly afterwards, his battery ran out and he was reported missing at 9.04am.<\/p>\n

His last known location was in the Rural de Teno Park, near Masca.<\/p>\n

A local cafe owner previously told Sky News Mr Slater tried to catch a bus back to Los Cristianos, where he was staying.<\/p>\n

Ofelia Medina Hernandez said she spoke to the teenager at 8am on the day of his disappearance, telling him a bus was due at 10am – but he set off walking.<\/p>\n

She said she later drove past him “walking fast”.<\/p>\n

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The Civil Guard last Friday called for volunteers<\/a><\/strong> to join a new search in the Masca area on Saturday.<\/p>\n

A handful of volunteers turned up to help rescue teams, forming a group of 30 to 40 people scouring a huge area of rugged and hilly terrain.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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