Missing In Action

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The body of Jacques Freitag, high jump gold medallist at the 2003 World Athletics Championship, has been discovered with gunshot wounds. He'd been missing since June 17th when he met up with a stranger who "had some work for him".

[maryportfuncity 10,273]

So, what do we reckon re Jay Slater

 

A few people convinced he's come to some harm at the hands of other person(s), police seem to assume he's done a Mosely and managed to collapse somewhere he's not readily visible. Tbh I haven't a clue, I'd guess some improbably bad luck version of the police suspicions. Anyone know owt else other than wild online speculation? 

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpe3nwn5d7wo#:~:text=The search for missing British,final day of the search."

[En Passant 3,266]

2 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

wild online speculation?

 

Nothing to add but speculation. Surely nobody else does either or it would have been reported somewhere by now?

 

1. He's clearly dead in a ditch after all this time from either heat exhaustion or he fell off a ledge or indeed both. (Random terrorist or bandit attacks on a 19 year old with about 45p to his name just seems unlikely in The Canaries, it's not Afghanistan).

2. He's hiding in a cupboard back at the hotel until all this blows over and he and the family can spend the cash from the Just Giving appeals on a series of piss-ups.

 

1. Will garner a sympathetic hearing no matter how this turns out*.

2. Will provoke cries that even conjecturing this shows an outstanding lack of empathy. But can we discount it?

 

*I'm going with 1. He was (is)19, and as a UK resident inexperienced with regards to - A: That kind of geography where you can be a long way from help very quickly, the terrain is difficult and the roads are terrible or non-existent and B: What that kind of heat can do to you, particularly if you have been drinking like a champ and start out in a hung over and de-hydrated state in the first place with no phone and critically, no water. It's just not a state of affairs you can easily get into in the UK.

 

ETA: If Mosley can manage it at 67 with a bloody good knowledge of what it can do to you, it has to be a reasonable guess that some poor half-cut 19 year old just had zero idea what he might be getting himself into.

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8 hours ago, En Passant said:

 

Nothing to add but speculation. Surely nobody else does either or it would have been reported somewhere by now?

 

1. He's clearly dead in a ditch after all this time from either heat exhaustion or he fell off a ledge or indeed both. (Random terrorist or bandit attacks on a 19 year old with about 45p to his name just seems unlikely in The Canaries, it's not Afghanistan).

2. He's hiding in a cupboard back at the hotel until all this blows over and he and the family can spend the cash from the Just Giving appeals on a series of piss-ups.

 

1. Will garner a sympathetic hearing no matter how this turns out*.

2. Will provoke cries that even conjecturing this shows an outstanding lack of empathy. But can we discount it?

 

*I'm going with 1. He was (is)19, and as a UK resident inexperienced with regards to - A: That kind of geography where you can be a long way from help very quickly, the terrain is difficult and the roads are terrible or non-existent and B: What that kind of heat can do to you, particularly if you have been drinking like a champ and start out in a hung over and de-hydrated state in the first place with no phone and critically, no water. It's just not a state of affairs you can easily get into in the UK.

 

ETA: If Mosley can manage it at 67 with a bloody good knowledge of what it can do to you, it has to be a reasonable guess that some poor half-cut 19 year old just had zero idea what he might be getting himself into.

 

 

Aye, totally with you, and also he blew his final seconds of phone battery ringing a mate in Manchester, likely got so disorientated in the final hour or so of dehydration that he blundered about, got lost and landed deep in a ravine. 

 

Surprised, a little, that the searchers didn't notice circling scavenging birds somewhere, but maybe the foraging ground animals got there first because he's deep in that ravine.

 

Pretty sad, either way