Cliff Notes
- Coroner Dr James Adeley detailed Jay Slater’s intentions to return to his friends from an Airbnb, highlighting his ongoing influence from drugs that morning.
- A timeline reveals Slater’s brief calls with friends, indicating he was walking but later expressed confusion and fear about his location.
- The final call showed Slater in a distressed state with minimal charge on his phone, indicating his precarious situation before losing contact.
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Continuing to summarise the evidence in the Jay Slater’s inquest.
Coroner Dr James Adeley returns to the period just before Jay Slater went missing.
He describes how Slater intended to get a bus back to his friends in Tenerife from Ayoub Qassim and Stephen Roccus’s Airbnb, a 40-minute drive away.
Dr Adeley says Slater’s behaviour indicates “Jay was still under the influence of cocaine and ecstasy” that morning.
He runs through a short timeline before contact was lost with Slater.
8am: Slater’s steps counter on his watch suggested he was walking, and he was witnessed walking at a brisk pace down a road approximately 40 minutes walk from the Airbnb.
8.21am: Slater calls friend Brandon Hodgson “laughing and joking” and “leaving the road”. Hodgson said Slater was not in distress.
8.24am: Slater calls friend Bradley Geoghegan on Snapchat, who says Slater was walking along a road with white blocks and intended to walk back to their apartment while “still under the influence”.
8.32am: Friend Lucy Law calls Slater, who didn’t know where he was with mountains “all around”. He needed a drink and was “frightened”, she said. Slater told her he could not go back to the AirBnB, without expanding.
8.35am: Lucy sends Slater a text message telling him to go back to the Airbnb before it gets too hot outside.
8.50am: With 1% battery left on his phone, Slater holds a call with Lucy Law for 22 seconds, the contents of which Dr Adeley believes Law has conflated with the call at 8.32am.