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EMBARKING on her first ever Caribbean cruise, Amy Bradley was excited for the luxury trip ahead.
Her insurance agent parents, Ron and Iva, had won the once-in-a-lifetime holiday for being top of the annual sales list and were delighted that their children – Amy, 23, and Brad, 21 – were allowed to join them.
Amy Bradley (pictured with her brother Brad) couldn’t wait to go on the ultra-high-end cruise with her family – but she vanished without trace on the trip in 1998[/caption]
Amy on the once-in-a-lifetime cruise with her parents[/caption]
But the family’s dream holiday turned to tragedy on the high seas when Amy disappeared without trace – sparking a mystery that remains unsolved 27 years later.
The lively, vivacious young woman, who had soon made friends among staff and passengers, often stayed up with brother Brad after their parents headed back to the cabin on the Rhapsody of the Seas cruise liner.
On the third night aboard she was letting her hair down and planned to head to the ship’s nightclub after bidding Iva and Ron goodnight.
“I said ‘I love you’ as I headed back to the cabin, and she said, ‘I love you, too, Mom. I’ll see you in the morning.’ And we went to bed,” recalls Iva.
But Iva was not to see her fun-loving daughter ever again. Somehow, during the early hours of the morning of March 24, 1998, she vanished.
Did she drunkenly fall overboard, take her own life, or hide on the ship and leave when it docked the following day – or was she taken against her will?
There have been many theories over the years and several ‘sightings’ of Amy, but one thing is for certain – her family are convinced she is still alive.
“Twenty seven years of looking for Amy every day. It’s a life goal,” says Iva. “In my quiet times it’s like, ‘What did we miss?’ I know somebody knows something.”
Amy’s disappearance is examined in the new three-part Netflix documentary Amy Bradley Is Missing, which explores the various leads and purported sightings over the years with interviews from suspects, family and friends.
On that fateful night, the ship had just left Aruba when Ron and Iva went to bed around 1am.
“We went up to the disco because that was the last place that was open,” says Brad.
“We weren’t ready to turn in yet. We were having drinks and listening to music and having a great time.”
After a while he indicated to Amy, above the noise, that they should call it a night and he headed back to the cabin at 3.35am.
“My parents were sleeping,” he remembers. “I went out onto the balcony and five minutes later, Amy came back to the room.
They could hear him talking inside of his room, even over the sound of the loud TV or radio. I thought, ‘Well, who’s he talking to?
Wayne Breitag
“We were both finishing our drinks and hanging out and talking about the next day. She brought up that someone she had been dancing and talking to during the course of the evening made some sort of physical pass at her.
“She told me it was the bass player from the band. She didn’t make a big deal of it, just mentioned it in passing.
“At that point we were both tipsy. It was time for bed. She said, ‘I don’t feel too good. I’m going to sit right here with all the fresh air and the wind.’
“I told her I loved her and would see her tomorrow and shut the glass door behind me and I went to bed.”
Amy’s brother Brad (right) was convinced he heard her voice while looking for her[/caption]
Ron Bradley last saw his daughter at 5:30am on the balcony[/caption]
Brad would not see her again – but her father did, briefly.
“I remember waking somewhere around 5.30 in the morning,” says Ron. “Brad had come in and gone to bed, but I didn’t see Amy in there.
“I saw her legs and feet, sitting in a lounge chair on the balcony, and told myself, ‘Well, she’s safe.’
“About six o’clock, something woke me again. I don’t know what it was but when I looked out, she wasn’t there.
“I noticed that the balcony door was open about 12 to 14 inches, the shirt that she had on that night was laying on the chair in the room and her cigarettes weren’t there.
I saw her legs and feet, sitting in a lounge chair on the balcony, and told myself, ‘Well, she’s safe’
Ron Bradley
“So I’m thinking she’s changed her clothes and has left the room to get a coffee and take pictures, because we were coming into port.”
Amy’s shoes were on the balcony neatly placed beside the little table.
“I left the room, leaving the others asleep and figured that I would find her in a few minutes and then everything would be good,” says Ron.
“But when I didn’t, that’s when I came back and told Iva, ‘I can’t find Amy’.”
Curacao harbour police chief Adtzere ‘John’ Mentar believes Amy’s body would have washed up had she gone overboard[/caption]
Becoming increasingly concerned, Ron and Iva reported their daughter’s disappearance at the purser’s desk and a call went out over the tannoy system asking for her to make contact.
By now people were starting to disembark for the next stop, Curacao.
“They were still all going on their merry way, laughing, talking, and there we were, looking for our daughter. It was what nightmares are made of,” says Ron.
At 9am a full search of the ship by staff found no trace of Amy.
The immediate assumption was that she had gone overboard and so a search took place at sea between Curacao and Aruba involving the Venezuelan Coast Guard and Navy.
“Our waters have a very strong current, so something should wash ashore,” says Curacao harbour police chief, Adtzere ‘John’ Mentar.
They were still all going on their merry way, laughing, talking, and there we were, looking for our daughter. It was what nightmares are made of
Ron Bradley
“Because of the position of the boat, wind force, sea current, wave height, the body would have washed up. But she was nowhere to be found.
“We have sharks but the shark will not eat her completely. Something, maybe a leg or an arm, would have washed ashore. It is very strange.”
The incident hit news headlines and two days after Amy went missing the FBI boarded the ship, but were frustrated to find that if there was any evidence in the cabin, it had been cleaned away by room service.
The Bradleys were all interviewed together and separately.
“I said to Iva, ‘You understand why they are interviewing us separately? It’s because we’re suspects,’” Ron recalls.
Ultimately the FBI found no evidence that led them to consider a family member was responsible.
Alistair Douglas, known as ‘Yellow’, partied with Amy on the night she disappeared[/caption]
Lori Thompson claimed she saw Amy on the night she disappeared chatting to Yellow[/caption]
Establishing an accurate timeline leading up to Amy’s disappearance has been difficult.
What is certain is that she returned to the cabin at 3.40am from the nightclub, because the electronic key card kept a record.
But no one knows if she left the room after that as the key is not used when exiting.
The FBI also interviewed others of interest, such as Wayne Breitag, the passenger in the adjoining cabin.
“I told them that I saw Amy Bradley at the disco that night around two o’clock because I went there to see what was going on and I just observed and sat down and, yeah, looking for girls, whatever,” he says.
“That night I probably was back in the room by 2.30… I don’t remember hearing anything from their room. That’s why it was a real surprise to me that this stuff happened.”
Iva says: “I told the FBI, Wayne Breitag would come out on his balcony next to us and lean over the partition to talk to Amy.
“He was just odd. The passengers in the cabin on the other side of him said that after Amy disappeared, his TV or radio was at a level of, ‘You gotta be kidding me.’
“They could hear him talking inside of his room, even over the sound of the loud TV or radio. I thought, ‘Well, who’s he talking to?’”
We have sharks but the shark will not eat her completely. Something, maybe a leg or an arm, would have washed ashore. It is very strange
Adtzere ‘John’ Mentar
After posters of Amy were pasted up on the ship, several people came forward to talk to the investigators, including Chris Fenwick.
He worked for a computer company in San Francisco that had organised a trip for its top sales people and had been editing some footage that his cameraman had been taking at the nightclub that evening for a ‘highlights reel’.
“I remember seeing Amy. She was the life and soul of the party,” he says.
“I went through my box of tapes and until I found her and she’s dancing with Yellow.”
Yellow was the nickname of the bass guitarist in the band, Alister Douglas.
Lori Thompson, then 18, told the FBI that she and her friend had got talking with Amy at the nightclub and later, between five and six in the morning.
She claimed she saw Amy and Yellow in the glass elevator going up to the nightclub even though it was closed. Then, 10 to 15 minutes later, she said Yellow walked briskly past them alone, without saying a word.
“I thought it was strange because in the nightclub he had tried to get us to talk to him,” Lori says. “I got a bad vibe. Immediately I thought, ‘Where’s Amy?’”
In his interview with the FBI, Yellow admitted that he knew who Amy was and had flirted with her, but said that was the kind of thing he does.
In a polygraph test he vehemently denied having anything to do with her disappearance. The results were not conclusive and the FBI released him due to having no evidence to charge him in Amy’s disappearance.
The family was emailed pictures in May 2001 of a woman who resembled Amy, posing provocatively on a prostitution website in the Venezuela area[/caption]
Back home in Virginia the family felt powerless, so Ron and Brad returned to Curacao to hold a press conference.
Afterwards they were approached by a taxi driver, named Deshi, who said he had spoken to a frantic-looking Amy on the island when she asked for directions to a phone box.
“He said, ‘You need to go to Kadushi Cliffs and look around but don’t talk to anybody because it was dangerous’,” recalls Ron.
It was the first indication Amy was alive. Worried about their safety, harbour police chief Adtzere ‘John’ Mentar accompanied them.
“Curacao is a very lovely island but the crime we have here is drug-related because we are not too far from Venezuela,” says John.
“We also have some prostitution on the island and sometimes sex trafficking. She could have been lured off the ship. Someone might be able to sweet-talk her.”
We also have some prostitution on the island and sometimes sex trafficking. She could have been lured off the ship. Someone might be able to sweet-talk her
Adtzere ‘John’ Mentar
On a remote car trip at one o’clock in the morning, Brad was sure he heard his sister.
He says: “We were driving along this little dirt path and I distinctly heard Amy’s voice say, ‘Brad!’ in what seemed like a vehicle that was passing us.
“I freaked out and spun around and asked everybody if they heard it and they said they did.
“We turned round and followed the car into a backstreet, fully expecting we were going to pull the guy over and she would be in the car, but it ended up being just an old dude by himself.
“I know what it sounds like when Amy calls me. This was very distinct. I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life that that’s what I heard.”
Ron is also convinced his daughter is still alive.
Over the years there have been several more credible sightings, often from people whose memories have been jolted after the family has appealed for information on TV chat shows.
Among the identifying features was a distinctive tattoo of the Tasmanian Devil cartoon animal on Amy’s left shoulder blade.
David Carmichael told the FBI that he and his friend had been on a diving trip at Porto Maries, Curacao, when he was convinced he saw Amy and two men walking towards them along the beach.
He noticed her Tasmanian Devil tattoo and was about to say something when he was unsettled by the larger man staring at him. He believes the other man was Alister Douglas.
We were driving along this little dirt path and I distinctly heard Amy’s voice say, ‘Brad!’ in what seemed like a vehicle that was passing us… I know what it sounds like when Amy calls me. This was very distinct. I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life that that’s what I heard
Brad Bradley
Bill Heffner, from Nevada, said he was in the US Navy in January 1999 when he walked into a bar in Curacao and met a white girl with tattoos who told him her name was Amy Bradley, and she was being held there against her will by armed men.
“I had heard all kinds of stories from working girls in Singapore and Thailand and I just kind of took it with a pinch of salt and I left,” he says.
“It wasn’t until 2001 when I saw her picture in a magazine feature that I connected the dots.”
The family was emailed pictures in May 2001 of a woman who resembled Amy, posing provocatively on a prostitution website in the Venezuela area.
An FBI forensic analyst studied the photos, measured things like the chin, ear and eyes, and believed that it was Amy. But police enquiries led nowhere.
At college Amy had come out as gay to her family and friends.
In 1998, she told her girlfriend, Mollie McClure, that she had kissed another girl after they had been drinking, but that it didn’t mean anything and that it had helped confirm her feelings for Mollie.
But Mollie told her that she needed time to process this and stopped answering her calls, so she sent Mollie a letter – a message in a bottle – asking for her forgiveness.
It has a heart-aching resonance of her going missing at sea with the comment: “I feel like there is an ocean between us. Like I’m on a desert island waiting for you to rescue me. A message in a bottle is my only hope. I miss you, Mollie. Save me please. Stranded, Amy.”
Mollie says there have been suspicions that this note, which she sent one month before her disappearance, may have had deeper meaning.
“Because of the circumstances of her going missing a month to the day that she sent me this letter, and also it being a message in a bottle, the convenience of the metaphor is ripe for misunderstanding,” says Mollie.
“It could suggest suicide but I don’t connect with it in that way. For me, it is a love letter.
Because of the circumstances of her going missing a month to the day that she sent me this letter, and also it being a message in a bottle, the convenience of the metaphor is ripe for misunderstanding. It could suggest suicide but I don’t connect with it in that way. For me, it is a love letter
Mollie McClure
“After the message I reached out to her and we got together a few days before she left for the cruise.
“She wanted me to meet the dog she had adopted and to see her new apartment. I knew we were going to make it work and we had planned that we would see each other after the cruise at Easter.
“She was incredibly excited about the trip. She had written me a postcard that arrived after I had got word she was missing. I’m a photographer so she referenced taking photos and then she said, ‘I wish you were here’.”
Wherever she is now remains a mystery, but the Bradleys will never give up their search.
“We’ve lost a lot of years of our life, searching, but we won’t stop,” says Iva.
“Somebody knows something. We were told by an FBI agent, ‘Keep your lights on. Nobody can keep a secret their entire life’.”
“We keep her car in the garage at home, out of the weather and polished,” adds Ron.
“It’s going to be pristine when she gets here. And then she’ll get to drive it again.”
Amy Bradley Is Missing is available to stream on Netflix from today.
THE DISTRAUGHT mum of a Brit who disappeared while camping with his girlfriend in Sardinia has been sent chilling messages saying: “I tried to believe it was an accident.”
Michael Frison, 26, vanished without trace last July while staying with Jersey-born Niomi Orlandini – a woman he met online.
Michael was reported missing in Sardinia[/caption]
An image of Michael’s abandoned belongings have surfaced just over a year after he vanished[/caption]
He vanished on 13 July 2024, just the day after he arrived on the Mediterranean island[/caption]
Niomi Orlandini and Michael met online and she later joined him in Sardinia[/caption]
Cristina, 49, has launched a campaign to find him but Niomi has since also disappeared.
The mum-of-two from Chard, Somerset, has now received “anonymous and disturbing Facebook messages” from an account that she believes is “someone with insider knowledge.”
The cryptic messages “reference guilt, fear, and the inability to remain silent.”
They read: “You cannot live a lie without it finding you eventually.
“I’ve seen it in nightmares.
“This isn’t about blame, it’s about the silence that eats away.
“I tried to forget. I tried to believe it was an accident. But the fear… it doesn’t go.”
Cristina previously told The Sun that she can “relate” to Jay Slater’s mum Debbie Duncan – and blames local Italian police for failing to investigate properly.
She said: “I can’t even imagine how Jay Slater’s mum would have felt when her son went missing and she couldn’t communicate in Spanish.
“I can communicate with the police and they have been useless.”
Cristine explained that her son Michael had flown from Bristol Airport to Olbia on July 2 last year, before driving to his grandparents home in Sassari to celebrate his 25th birthday and his grandma’s 70th.
Niomi, 27, asked to join him on the trip and he cancelled his return flight to the UK in order to stay with her for an additional week.
According to his mum, the pair left Michael’s grandparents home on July 12, and went to volunteer on a farm in the Gallura hinterland, where they would work in exchange for food and accommodation.
Mum-of-two Cristine says the trip from her parents’ place to the site they stayed at was a “70 mile journey”, and the area was surrounded by “rugged terrain and deep vegetation”.
The pair arrived on an area of land, owned by a German couple, on the same day they left, with Michael and Niomi staying in a tent about “100 metres away” from the couple, who were in a campervan.
Cristine said that was the last day she heard from him: “He texted me saying he was going to sleep and that he’d call me tomorrow. He ended it with a heart emoji.”
A snap taken from the scene shows clothing and a water bottle in the area where they camped.
Heartbroken mum Cristina has grown increasingly frustrated over the Italian authorities’ reluctance to share key information about Michael’s disappearance with British cops.
The Foreign Office has stated it cannot intervene in the investigation unless Italy formally requests their assistance.
Italian police have yet to locate or question Niomi, believed to be the last person to see Michael alive.
She has not co-operated with the authorities or his family, and is thought to have moved to Thailand where her mother is from.
Cristina explained that police in Britain advised her to tell the Italian authorities to seize Niomi’s passport, which they did not do, and that they got offended when she tried to tell them how to do their jobs.
The crucial passport error may have allowed Niomi to vanish with a raft of questions left unanswered.
She added that she has also not been given a family liaison officer, and claims Italian police have kept her in the dark.
The worried mother additionally raised her concerns about Niomi, saying she has not spoken to her sisters since she left, though they keep telling her that she is a “lovely girl”.
Efforts to track down Niomi’s family in Jersey have failed.
Cristina said: “I’m not looking for a culprit, I’m looking for my son – I’m not accusing her of anything.
“But the fact she is not responding is quite mysterious and very strange.”
The mum added: “Human beings do not disappear from the face of earth without leaving traces unless something extremely bad happened to them.”
The mother has been left questioning why Niomi would not respond to her appeals for help or check in for an update on the search.
A local investigation into his whereabouts is ongoing[/caption]
Cristina previously told The Sun that she can ‘relate’ to Jay Slater’s mum[/caption]
Michael went missing on 13 July last year in Sardinia[/caption]
Cristina, who lost her husband seven years ago and is now juggling the search for Michael with looking after her youngest son, 11, said she’s going through an “unimaginable mix of emotions”.
She said: “It’s destroyed our lives.
“Not knowing where Michael is and what happened is unbearable.
“Feeling the worst and holding onto hope for the best – it’s an overwhelming sense of helplessness.”
She says she feels “drained” by the emotional and physical toll of his disappearance, and vowed: “I am determined to find him, even in my grief I will not stop fighting for him.
In her desperate efforts, Cristina has “given up everything”, abandoning her promising career in social work in order to dedicate her time to finding Michael and downsizing her home.
She said: “I am leaving the house because I can’t afford to live here and balance going between here and Italy.”
Cristina added that her second son is home educated and has developed separation anxiety.
She praised Michael as “such a kind and truly special soul”.
She said: “He feels so deeply not just for himself but for others – he notices when someone is struggling.
“He offers a kind word and a helping hand.
“It’s a never-ending nightmare.
“There’s no real accountability… I am here and I am broken.”
A GoFundMe campaign launched by Michael’s pals in the UK has now reached £10,000 in the effort to help find the missing Brit.
By James Moules, Foreign News Reporter
THE mother of a Brit man who went missing in Sardinia a year ago has said she’s been “broken” since his disappearance.
Michael’s mother Cristina Pittalis has told Sky News of her anguish over what happened to him.
“I’m trying not to lose my mind,” she said as she recounted the last time she heard his voice.
“He was in a rush but absolutely clear in his speech, I didn’t detect any confusion in his state of mind.”
Cristina, who is from Somerset, told the broadcaster: “Human beings do not disappear from the face of earth without leaving traces unless … something extremely bad happened to them.”
Her son had reportedly gone for a walk, and returned in a confused state and showing signs of heatstroke.
After this, he went for a second walk – from which he never returned.
His clothes and trainers were later found close by.
Michael’s mum told Sky News is was “extremely unlikely” he would suffer heatstroke as he had lived on the island before.
It would also be “completely out of character” to wander off barefoot and leave his belongings behind, she added.
She has now moved to Sardinia along with her other son, 11, in an attempt to look for Michael.
Cristina, who is originally from Sassari in the island’s northwest, said she is “extremely worried because there are no traces of Michael”.
Although a local investigation into his whereabouts is ongoing, Michael’s mum wants Interpol to step in to help with the search.
“It’s a never-ending nightmare,” she said. “There’s no real accountability… I am here and I am broken.”
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“YOU covered Jay Slater, didn’t you?”
It’s a question I’ve been asked time and again for the best part of a year now.
Jay Slater’s body was found on July 15, 2024 – 29 days after he went missing[/caption]
Grief-stricken Debbie wept as she opened up about her beloved son’s disappearance and death[/caption]
And every time it makes my stomach churn as their eyes light up, hoping I will lift the lid on the ridiculous conspiracy theories they’ve lapped up.
Jay’s story is one I have followed from the moment he went missing in Tenerife on June 17 last year – and it is one of those cases that will never leave me.
I was never convinced by the relentless armchair detectives – nor the outlets that regurgitated baseless theories.
Outrageous claims include that Jay skipped the island on a yacht, fell foul of a drug cartel, and had been tied up hostage with chains.
Jay’s grieving mum wept as she opened up to me following his untimely death – and as I looked her in the eyes, I could feel the unspeakable toll of pain she was suffering.
I was the only reporter in the mountains of Masca when police confirmed Jay’s body had been found, and I can still feel the shock pulsing through me after a long 29-day search.
But my overriding feeling was one of hope – praying it would bring the closure Jay’s courageous family so badly needed.
As reporters, we get a lot of stick – and trust me, I have had my fair share.
But what is often forgotten is that the overriding purpose of our jobs is to fight for the truth – and filter out misinformation that is all too easily spread in this social media age.
It feels like every single person I encounter has their theory on what happened to Jay – largely and sadly, informed by keyboard warriors.
I shut them down before they unleashed a rant at me, spewing idle comments they’ve picked up from going down a rabbit hole on Facebook or TikTok.
Naturally, I am asked for my opinion.
I’m cautious to give my judgement on stories I cover – not least to give naive minds anything to latch onto.
But deep down, my gut is – and has always been – that this is a very tragic story of a British tourist falling to their death on holiday.
This was a 19-year-old lad away from home for the first time with pals who, yes, drank, took drugs and probably had a bit too much fun.
I feel logic is the main component missing from most trolls’ arguments.
Jay had been drinking and had taken drugs, and when he left the Airbnb on the morning of June 17, he had probably not slept for a fair while.
Add on top of having alcohol and drugs in your system, being dehydrated, and in an unfamiliar, remote area, it’s not the prettiest picture.
To make matters worse, the mountainous setting of the Airbnb is hugely unforgiving.
Debbie with childhood photos of Jay[/caption]
Jay pictured beaming in his school uniform[/caption]
The remote Airbnb that Jay went to after partying[/caption]
It’s violently hot and windy – enough to make even the most intrepid hiker feel uneasy.
Treacherous, stony, winding paths while battling those conditions are not for the faint-hearted, and even I almost lost my footing a few times while walking through the area.
Sober and rested, you will probably be fine if you’re careful. But for Jay, that wasn’t the case – and it ultimately cost him his life.
Yet the judgement coming from pathetic wannabe detectives is almost laughable.
I can guarantee almost every single crank who mindlessly taps out their thoughts has found themselves in questionable situations after drinking or taking drugs in their youth.
And still, a year on, obsessive trolls continue to attempt to make out that something that happened in those final hours was linked to his death.
But I am certain Jay fell accidentally.
JAY Slater’s brave mum Debbie last year hit back at critics and trolls.
Just days after Jay’s funeral last August, heartbroken Debbie paid tribute to him as a “loving and popular” 19-year-old who “had the world at his feet”.
She told how Jay was devoted to his family and friends, would always dance at events and had taken her to see Bob Marley film One Love before his tragic disappearance.
Debbie told The Sun: “Jay was just a lovely boy with a massive personality.
“Everybody just loved Jay being in his company – family, friends and work.
“He was loving and popular, always full of fun and smiling – and the main guy in the group.
“The people saying stuff about him didn’t know Jay and they don’t know us.
“He hasn’t been here to defend himself against all these horrible stories that were going on around the world about him.
“He worked hard, and then at weekends, he loved spending time with his friends.
“But he loved being at home as well.
“He liked cooking and was always in the kitchen with me every night.”
His decisions beforehand may have led him to that, but it doesn’t change the fact that he fell.
So I wish these idiotic flame-baiters would just leave his family alone and stop causing them further heartache by blindly attempting to connect what he did on his final night out to his death.
Yes, Jay’s family still desperately deserve answers to those questions hanging over about what actually happened in his last hours.
But frankly, armchair detectives have never and will never help – and to be honest, I never bought into the ones claiming that’s all they were trying to do.
My heart bleeds for his mum Debbie, brother Zak and dad Warren, who are still battling for answers after spineless witnesses failed to show up for his inquest earlier this year.
It has now been a year since Jay’s body was found in a ravine in Rural de Teno National Park – and if the case still haunts me, I can’t imagine how his poor family must be suffering every single day.
So please, let them find answers on their own terms and without fear of seeing yet more painful lies plastered across social media.
Search crews scoured for Jay for days before he was found[/caption]
Jay was an avid footballer as a child[/caption]
Jay, right, with older brother Zak and mum Debbie[/caption]
JAY Slater flew to the Spanish island last June to attend the NRG music festival in Playa de las Americas with two friends, Lucy Law and Brad Hargreaves.
The teen travelled to an Airbnb apartment in Masca with two men – including convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim – in the early hours of June 17.
Jay posted a final Snapchat picture of himself smoking on the doorstep of the apartment at 7.30am on June 17 before leaving at around 8am.
Jay, of Oswaldtwistle, Lancs, made a heartbreaking final call to friend Lucy saying he had cut his leg, was lost, dehydrated and had just one per cent battery on his phone after he left the Airbnb.
He was attempting the treacherous 10-hour walk back to his apartment in Los Cristianos when he called Lucy to say he was lost.
DCI Rachel Higson, head of digital media investigations at Lancashire Police, told an inquest in May that Jay’s phone recorded “a lot of steps and inclines” between 7.59am and 8.49am.
His mobile last pinged in the mountainous Rural de Teno Park after Jay walked the wrong way from the Airbnb, and DCI Higson said there was “no data recorded” after 8.49:51am.
After a month-long search, Jay’s body was found in a ravine on July 15 last year – near to where his phone last pinged.
A post-mortem examination concluded he died of traumatic head injuries, consistent with a fall from height.
Home Office pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd told the inquest Jay suffered a “heavy fall from height” and the “devastating” effects would have been “immediate”.
THE mum of a Brit who vanished while hiking in Italy says she “just wants him home” as a major search operation continues.
Matthew Hall has been missing for five days after he went for a trek in the Italian Alps.
The 33-year…