Jay Slater's mother prepares anniversary, urges Jay's Law

As the second anniversary of her son's death approaches, Debbie Duncan of Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, is preparing for a difficult week marked by England's opening World Cup match. Her 19-year-old son, Jay Slater, disappeared while on holiday in Tenerife on June 17, 2024, and his body was found 29 days later in the Juan Lopez ravine in the Masca area. The coroner concluded his death was an accidental fall from a height of around 25 meters.

Jay had been attending the NRG music festival on his first holiday without his parents. The last conversation Debbie had with her son was on June 16, 2024, when he told her he planned to watch an England football match. His final known communication was a phone call to a friend, Lucy Law, in which he said he was lost, dehydrated, had a cut on his leg, and that his phone battery was dying. A major search operation was launched after he was reported missing.

An inquest last year found no third-party involvement in Jay's death. The coroner cited contributing factors such as a lack of suitable clothing, sleep, and mountain training, as well as the potential after-effects of drugs he had consumed. The coroner also noted that some of Jay's social...