Jay Slater's best pal hits back at conspiracy theories stating 'people need to know the facts'

Jay Slater's friend has slammed online trolls for spreading rumours about the missing teen.

Brad Hargreaves was holidaying in Tenerife with Slater when the 19-year-old disappeared after a night out last month.

He was last heard from at around 8am on 17 June after calling his friend Lucy Law to tell her he was in the middle of nowhere and needed water.

Law told police Slater said his phone battery was on one percent and that he 'didn't know where he was.'

His phone died soon after, with his last location shown as being Rural de Teno Park in the north west of Tenerife.

Nobody has heard from the British teen since.

There has been no sign of British teen Jay Slater since he went missing in Tenerife last month (Family Handout)

Following his disappearance, a massive search operation was conducted by Tenerife police, but this came to an end on 30 June, without any news on Slater's whereabouts.

The case has been the topic of great discussion online during the past few weeks, with social media users cooking up some pretty wild theories about what happened to the 19-year-old.

One theory claims that Brad Hargreaves, who returned to the UK on Sunday, played a role in his pal's disappearance.

Hitting back at the conspiracy in an Instagram message, Hargreaves said: "'Thinkin' I'm involved in it all is beyond me.

"We've been pals for years, took our first holiday together and sadly this has happened.

"We ain't drug mules or whatever. People need to get their facts straight before spouting rubbish on the internet."

Brad Hargreaves has since hit back at rumours he was involved in his pal's disappearance (ITV)

Ayub Qassim, who invited Slater to stay at the Airbnb he was renting before his disappearance, also spoke out to deny he had any involvement. Police have said he is 'irrelevant' to their investigation.

He said: "The only comment I have to make is that Jay came to the house alive, and he left the house alive.

"I let the geezer stay at mine because he had nowhere else to go, his friends had all left him. I know Jay, through friends, I'm not going to bring someone back to mine if I don't know them.

"I'm doing the geezer a favour and now my face is all over the news. It's a bit mental. I haven't even done anything."

While official searches have come to an end, his dad, Warren, and brother, Zak, have been spotting continuing the search in Rural de Teno Park and its neighbouring valleys.

Warren told the Daily Star: "I've covered 80% of that valley, so we went further along. We've driven and we've walked down the path at the next village, up the mountain there's a viewpoint that looks down, you can either follow the road, but we didn't, we parked up and walked down."

But there still don't seem to be any concrete leads as to what could have happened to Slater.

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