Jay Slater’s Mum Issues Heartbreaking Plea In BBC Interview, Calls For ‘Jay’s Law’
The Jay Slater documentary, ‘The Disappearance of Jay Slater’, is set to air on Channel 4 this Friday, which is why we’re seeing a bit more of his mum Debbie Duncan this week.
This morning, Debbie gave an emotional interview on BBC Breakfast where she described how the family had faced a torrent of online abuse and misinformation after Jay went missing in Tenerife in June 2024.
With all the misinformation and conspiracy theories doing the rounds, she “didn’t know what to believe” about her son’s whereabouts.
Debbie, who definitely took a photo of Claudia Winkleman with her to the hairdressers before the interview, said: ‘It was unbelievable. I think I just had a breakdown.’
She and her family are now calling for Jay’s Law, which would see tighter regulations online to stop misinformation about missing people.
Debbie adds: ‘It was just insane. It was just, you know, it’s this, it’s that, every day. And we’d get back and get together after they’d all been out searching. And it’s like, yeah, it could be this, it could be that.
‘It was just unbelievable. It was just, we were out there, we were desperate. And then all this misinformation… you didn’t know what was real and what wasn’t real.
‘And then obviously when we found Jay, it just blew up even more.’
Debbie said when Jay’s body was found, she “didn’t feel like there was any sympathy there from these people, but they just kind of sensationalised it all online”.
Debbie explained: ‘I just don’t want another family to have to go through what we’ve been through.’
Over a year since Jay’s death, Debbie said that she “still can’t bring myself to unpack his case.” However, she did unpack a bag her son had with him when he died.
She said: ‘So this is the bag Jay had with him when he was found. And we got handed this from the Guardia Civil. And it’s got these things in it. His driving licence, and then there’s this bottle of aftershave. And then his lighters.’
I guess they’ll get into all this and more during the documentary on Channel 4 this Sunday, which will no doubt have a ridiculous amount of viewership.
There are still so many unanswered questions around Jay’s death, for example; the £12,000 Rolex Jay claimed to have stolen on the night he died, and the convicted drug dealer who was one of the last people to see Jay alive. Will they even touch upon this stuff in the documentary?
Well, either way, hopefully his family will say what they need to say on this upcoming Channel 4 documentary, and then we can all move on from the Jay Slater saga once and for all. Unless… Debbie Duncan podcast incoming?
