In The Disappearance of Jay Slater, it comes from Jay’s father, Warren, as he remembers the brutal hope the family had that their son had been taken by kidnappers, and the online rumours swirling about his torture for a supposed drug debt. “At least if we’d got him back,” says Warren, “I could have mended him.”Nineteen-year-old Jay Slater went missing on 17 June last year. But it should have been one about a tragic accident and parents left to come to terms with life without their son. The GoFundMe page set up by Jay’s friend Lucy inspired further theories and vitriol – it was to pay off his drug debt, then he would reappear. No, it was this, it was that, it was something else entirely … all of it emotionally devastating to his family.