Brit cops STILL haven’t quizzed Jay Slater’s mystery holiday pals including ‘Johnny Vegas’ who could hold key to case

BRITISH cops say they have still not quizzed two men who hosted Jay Slater at their Airbnb before he disappeared, The Sun can reveal.

The 19-year-old has been missing for more than a week after he disappeared on a mountain range in Tenerife.

He travelled to the rural village of Masca in the early hours of June 17 with two men that he met at NRG music festival.

The holidaymakers were quizzed by local cops at the small cottage before they travelled back to Luton Airport.

Both men are said to hail from Luton, Bedfordshire. One has the nickname ‘Johnny Vegas’.

A woman identified only as Araceli, who works in the cafe next to the rental property, told reporters: “They came in for cafe con leche a couple of times.

“One was aged about 40. The other one was slightly younger.”

Cops in the UK revealed they have no intention of speaking with the men, despite growing concerns over Jay.

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Lancashire Constabulary, whose offer of assistance was refused by local cops, said it will not pursue the tourists.

Bedfordshire Police, which looks after Luton Airport, will not seek to speak with the men, alongside London’s Met.

Fears for Jay continued to grow, as authorities scoured Rural de Teno national park, dubbed the ‘Badlands’ by locals.

Guarda Civil visited the mayor’s office in the town of Santiago del Teide to collect CCTV images which could be Jay.

A grainy image was shared with Jay’s distraught father, who visited the town on Monday to hand out missing posters.

Warren Slater, 58, told The Sun: “One minute he’s here, the next minute he’s not. It doesn’t make sense.

“You think to yourself, has somebody got him? Because no matter if you were drunk you don’t go off that road up there.

“It is a living hell, unless you’re going through it, you cannot explain.”

A possible sighting was made to cops in the town, with a man reporting seeing Jay on a bench 10 hours after he vanished.

The owner of the Airbnb where the two men stayed said she had given all the information she had to the police.

Ofelia Hernandez revealed they were friendly, booked several days at the cottage, and spent a lot of time inside the property.

Questions are now being asked why the males have not spoken out about the events leading up to the teenager leaving.

Jay, of Oswaldtwistle, Lancs, called pal Lucy Law at around 8.30am and told her he was thirsty and his phone would die.

The treacherous walk from Jay’s last-known location to his own accommodation would have taken about 11 hours on foot.

Spanish police are investigating apprentice bricklayer Jay’s background to determine whether it is relevant to his disappearance.

A spokesman told us: “We are not going to give out any information on what the Civil Guard is doing during this investigation – which is running parallel to the search operation near the area Jay Slater was last seen in.

“We are investigating everything as we do in any investigation and not discounting anything, while the search which officers are focused on at the moment is ongoing.”

Meanwhile former British cop Mark Williams-Thomas arrived in Tenerife to help Jay’s family locate their son.

The investigator has probed a string of high-profile missing persons cases, including Nicola Bulley’s disappearance.

Asked if cops were considering conspiracy theories around Jay, a local police source said: “Yes, of course it is being investigated. 

“From the beginning they have been considering all possibilities, but this issue is being handled directly by the judicial police.”