Jay Slater’s heartbroken mum reveals plan for ‘Jay’s law’ to crack down on sick online ‘tragedy trolls’ who feed on pain

JAY Slater’s devastated mum has revealed her plan for Jay’s Law as she battles to prevent sick trolls from targeting grieving families.

The campaign comes after months of receiving disgusting conspiracy theories about her son’s death – including, photoshopped pictures and claims he was being tortured.

Debbie Duncan led a huge search across Tenerife for her missing son, who had travelled to the island to attend the NRG music festival last year.

The 19-year-old vanished after being driven 30 miles up the mountains to an Airbnb.

He fell around 80ft to his death while trying to walk back to his accommodation in Los Cristianos from the village of Masca on June 17.

His body was found almost a month later down a treacherous ravine.

Now, in an interview with Good Morning Britain, Debbie has opened up about the swathes of misinformation she received while desperately searching for Jay and how she hopes to crack down on the trolls behind it.

She said: “It started almost immediately, the conspiracies. [They said] he had been caught up in this that and the other.

“We were getting phone calls daily. We were thinking he had been kidnapped or they would say it was me who started the misinformation.

“To begin with, spreading the awareness was great. But then it took a turn. The dark side of social media reared its head.

“The story at the time was that it was all a set up and I was involved and we were all going to run away with the money and Jay would appear.

“I wish that were the case, really. That’s used against us now.”

She’s now campaigning to introduce Jay’s Law to help protect grieving families from enduring similar pain.

The heartbroken mum previously told the BBC: “I’d like to see the social media companies take away all the misinformation to protect families like ours, especially when there has been a massive story in the media.”

According to Debbie, the trolling got so bad she was even sent photoshopped images of Jay with “things tied round his neck”.

The pictures were often sent with messages claiming her son was being tortured.

“[They claimed he was] being held, he is being tortured, he had things tied his neck. But they were all photoshopped images,” she said.

And over a year later, as grief-stricken Debbie grapples with the loss of her son, the streams of hurtful messages continue pouring in.

“There will be something by this evening. They’ll say it to keep their stories going.” she said.

She added: “It’s difficult, it really is. There’s no pain like losing a child.

“I’m just trying to fight through it but it’s not easy. Especially with all the noise in the background that continues.”

In a Channel 4 documentary, Jay’s family spoke publicly about the tragic case.

It shows grief-stricken mum Debbie recalling finding an unsent message when logging into his Snapchat account after finally retrieving his phone.

Remembering it being received by Jay’s pal Bradley Geoghegan, she said tearfully: “When we signed into Jay’s Snapchat there was an unsent message from Jay to Brad.

“So the message was obviously just flying around and then the message sent to Brad, which obviously gave Brad a fright.

“He messaged me straight away ‘are you on Jay’s phone?’. I said yeah we’ve just signed into his Snapchat.

“He said ‘I’ve just got a message that’s just come through from Jay’. The last message he sent.

“He said ‘listen, I’m not going to make it’. It’s kind of like he knew he just wasn’t going to make it.”

Debbie revealed there had been “a lot of activity” on his iPhone that night, including around 70 calls, before a final 22-second call to pal Lucy Law at 8.50am.

Jay’s mobile is believed to have run out of charge when the call with Lucy suddenly ended after he revealed he only had one per cent battery remaining.