Jay Slaters mum asking for more donations

I don’t think he bothered getting insurance

People will have mixed feelings on this. On one hand there’s a grieving mother who probably doesn’t know her arse from her elbow right now. Could I have set up a Go Fund Me when my son died, absolutely not, if my family had asked to do that the answer would have been the same. Personally, I wouldn’t have had the energy to update a Go Fund Me either but people are different, they grieve differently. Something doesn’t sit right with me updating that page encouraging people to give her son a “good send off” or words to that effect.

To be perfectly honest, her son wasn’t the most pleasant of people, who uses a machete on another person? He wasn’t innocent and I don’t believe his friends were either. Again, personally, if I was her I wouldn’t want my sons face (who had a criminal record) plastered all over the press. Jay Slayer made his choices, probably very wrong choices and he paid the price for those. Whether that was drug induced or something deeper who knows? The family appear to be ignoring his past.

There’s been so many armchair detectives posting stuff on this case it’s outrageous. One guy went “searching” for Jay Slater from England to Tenerife, he’s now gone to Italy to “search” for another missing person. This is all for personal gain imo, for TikTok/You Tube/Facebook views and gifts that his followers bestow on him. It’s disgusting.

If I was Jay Slaters mother, I’d just be wanting to bring him home and frankly be keeping my head down. Before Go Fund me or other platforms like them existed people coped. It’s all very distasteful.

It sounds like you put on a wonderful send off. I hope it is a little easier for you now.

And you know what she's spent the money on, how?

Crass. Ironic…

The public donated 2 million to Mccanns, I believe they were also criticised for this.

You can try to make out I'm being a snob. I passed no comment on my own social class. It's an observation. The people most gripped by this, who feel most connection with the story and most willing to donate are the working class.

So many people lose those they love to accidents and illness and violence and they get on and pay for a funeral- mightn't be showy but they see it as their responsibility to do their best for their loved one.
When my mam died we didn't have a big funeral- I did my utmost to make it about her in the music, what was read, what I said in the Eulogy, donations to a charity she supported. I made all her favourite foods for the reception afterwards, which we had at her home.DH had photos of her from birth to old age turned into a booklet for guests and there were lovely photos at the crematorium and around her house. It was the last thing I could do for her as her daughter.The people who loved her had tea, a drink, and sat and reminisced about her. It was lovely. I would never have expected or asked complete strangers to pay for a 'send-off'. It was my responsibility and I wanted to do it for her.
I think his mother completely fails to 'read the room' or to show any insight into her own behaviours. She complains about comments made about the `GFM' but then asks for more than the £60,000 to be donated. 'Give whatever you can' were the words I think.

People don't become good just because they're dead.

Then you are making shit up to stick the boot in.

Of course not, but I'd be very surprised if it was. And I wouldn't be the only one.

They were withdrawing funds to bring out random friends, I really don't think all 60k will go on Jay related things

Oh come on. I’ve been as enthralled by the stupid posts on Facebook as much as the next person but a young person has died in relatively horrible circumstances in a foreign country. That is dreadfully sad.

The punishment for ABH isn’t being chucked off a mountain in Tenerife! Even if you do have dodgy friends, a Facebook group full of armchair detectives and a go fund me with no clear objective of what the money will be spent on.

Amazing how she has managed to burn through almost 60 grand already. I suppose Gucci handbags and the like don't buy themselves. Money-grubbing at its most crass

Agree. But if people donate money to it, that's on them.

Facebook you say? How very lower class of you... Mingling with the plebs!

I'm normally a generous forgiving soul. But this lad got himself into a situation & it went wrong. He had an interesting history which has been exposed. IMO the money should go to local charities on the island

Do people put their salary on a Facebook post these days? How do you know that the majority of people come from the “lower” class 🙄

Do you know her then?

I think a charity is actually paying for the repatriation costs, so guessing the money raised is solely for the funeral. I personally won’t be giving, because I don’t think the Gofundme pages are regulated properly, so wouldn’t donate anyway. But, as others have said, it isn’t compulsory to donate, and so if people want to do so, it’s no-one else’s business really.

The feigned concern to acrid nastiness at breakneck speed and people queuing up to stick the boot in on this thread is unbelievable.

Pack of hyenas.

Oh a whole month ago! She should be completely over it by now then.

So? Are we spitting hairs?

Don’t think the guy whose head he staved in was squeaky clean either, to be honest. But in any case, I’m kind of bewildered at ABH being referred to as “teenage twit behaviour” by a PP.

No chance.