GoFundMe for family of missing Lancashire teen raises thousands in just five hours
Jay Slater has been missing on the island of Tenerife since Monday morning
A GoFundMe, set up to raise money for the family of a missing Lancashire teen, has raised thousands of pounds in just five hours.
£14,950 has been raised as of 11am this morning (Thursday).
The fund has been create by the friend of Jay Slater, who has gone missing whilst on holiday in Tenerife.
The 19-year-old from from Oswaldtwistle hasn't been heard from since Monday morning, when he called a friend to say he was lost in the mountains, had 1% battery, and had suffered an injury to his leg.
A large scale search and rescue operation is underway on the Island, and Jay's mum and brother have flown out to help in the search.
Speaking to Sky News, Lucy Law, who's set up the fund said: "I woke up to a phone call, he said he had gone up to the mountains, his phone battery was on 1%, and he had no idea where he was"
Lucy says she told him to go back to where he had come from before his phone dies, so she could come and pick him up.
"He said to me 'I can't go back there, I don't know where it is'. So he has sent me a screenshot of his last location."
In a post on the fundraising site, Lucy explained: "He had met 2 people on Sunday night and left with them to go to their apartment. Their apartment was miles away from civilisation and in a very secluded location. He left at 8am, and walked half an hour before frantically ringing me when his phone reached 1%.
"This was 3 days ago now, and no one has seen or heard from him since. His last location was on an off road track, which was a 10 hour walk from his hotel.
"The weather conditions up there are terrible for someone in shorts & a t-shirt, both in the day & at night. He has no water for when it’s warm through out the day, and he has no coat/suitable clothing for when it’s cold at night. It was 1 degree and extremely windy when I was out looking in the middle of the night"