All the key Jay Slater evidence from final inquest session as coroner's investigation comes to a close
When the inquest started on May 21, 2025 it was dramatically halted after Jay's mum Debbie asked for extra attempts to be made to locate witnesses who had failed to respond to a request to give evidence.
After just over 12 months, Jay Slater's family now have answers about how the 19-year-old died and the circumstances leading up to his disappearance, Lancs Live reports.
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It comes after the apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire went missing on June 17, 2024 in Tenerife after leaving a party in Playa de las Americas and heading north to a remote Airbnb in Masca, before attempting to return on foot.
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The inquest resumed today with evidence being heard from Brad Geoghegan and Lucy Law - the two friends who were with Jay in Tenerife when he disappeared.
A third friend Brandon Hodgson did not make contact with the coroner's service, and Steven 'Rocky' Roccas - one of the two men who rented the Airbnb where Jay was last seen - could also not be found.
The entirety of the evidence has now been heard with the coroner, Dr James Adeley, due to give his summing-up and conclusion on Friday morning.
During proceedings the court heard from Brad Geoghegan, who described how he and Jay "might have took it a bit too far" with the drink and drugs as their trip to Tenerife last summer was their 'first boys' holiday".
Although Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, had been drunk, on the night of Sunday, June 16 - the last night of the NRG music festival - he was still coherent and not "in a state", Brad said. This was corroborated by Ayub Qassim, the other man who had rented the Airbnb where Jay was last seen.
Ayub, who gave his evidence via video link from a foreign country, said that Jay was "on a buzz" but could still stand up and talk.
Jay had asked Ayub and Rocky if he could go back to their Airbnb, the inquest heard. Ayub warned Jay it was "far away" but promised to drop him back off in town the following morning.
A picture of Jay, taken by Ayub after they parked up at the Airbnb in Masca, showed him smiling. Ayub left Jay with a blanket, a towel and a "deck of fags" and then went upstairs to bed.
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He was later woken by a neighbour ringing the doorbell to get Ayub to move his car which had blocked in their van.
Jay then told Ayub he was going to catch a bus back to town. Ayub told Jay "it's not the kind of place where there's a bus every 10 minutes" but Jay insisted on setting off.
Ayub repeatedly insisted that Jay "didn't steal no watch", referencing a Snapchat message Jay had sent to a friends in which he claimed to have stolen a Rolex or an Audemars Piguet watch. Ayub suggested this could have been a case of Jay exaggerating or trying to show off to his mates.
Jay's other childhood friend, Lucy Law who he had met at secondary school, was seen as the "sensible" member of the group. When Jay called her on the morning of Monday June 17, and said he was walking home but needed a drink, she urged him to "go back" to the Airbnb "before it gets boiling".
Jay's mobile phone battery then died, at around 8.43am, and he was reported missing shortly afterwards at 9am. His body was found in a ravine, on July 15, by a mountain rescue team who said Jay's bag had been found around 20 metres higher up - suggesting that was where he fell from.
The inquest will continue from 10am on Friday, July 25 when the coroner will sum up the case and then deliver his conclusion.
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