Jay Slaters mum asking for more donations

None of that money has gone to her.

I can think of parents of other teenagers who’ve died tragically, who’ve made long careers and become very rich off the back of it. Maybe they deserve your ire instead.

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He had a criminal record almost fatally hurt someone. He had a chequered past.

My thoughts on this are I'm sick of everyone slagging her off. Who cares about the bloody money! No one has to donate. Some people are just doing it out of sympathy and so what? It's their money, they can do whatever they want with it. She's going to pay money for the Dutch search and rescue team, she'll be paying towards other search teams, covering the cost of accommodation and flights. Nothing's been withdrawn from the GFM yet but I think thousands have been accounted for already. It'll cost thousands to repatriate the body and she clearly wants to have a lavish send off.

I don't know who you are taking about. My first thoughts are the Lawrences and Taylors, in which case shame on you.

What kind of charitable foundation would they possibly need to set up? Am I missing something here?

Actually I think alot of the negative attitude comes from their own behaviour. Constantly talking to the press, selling or giving stories to the press saying he's been taken. Saying don't donate then asking for donations. The news about his previous record didn't help then the story of the rolex....now the family are asking for more money then 60 k.. for a send off (her words) that if she wants it to be a certain way then she needs to pay for that herself.

An ex bf went missing for 11 days he was drunk, wandered off and they found his body the parents didn't set up a go fund me page. There's many incidents we're individuals have gone missing but they haven't got the same level of coverage jay has. The asking more funds is ingenious. If she wanted to set up a charity to aid young adults who were missing that would be different but I suspect that's not the case.

The foundation for dangerous young men who are also a danger to themselves.

I can see that taking off....

He without sin and all that...

No that has nothing to do with it for me - if he was an Oxbridge student who spent his spare time helping baby hedgehogs across the road, I still wouldn’t donate to his mum’s GFM. I don’t mind if anyone else wants to though, it’s up to them.

Well I've never been up in court for being a group who assaulted someone with a machete. So...

Er like the McCanns? Sure they received years of abuse

If she needs help repatriating his body because he didn't have insurance, then i can understand it to some extent. To give him anything more than a modest funeral would be money grabbing.

Most of us haven’t attempted to kill somebody by smashing their head in with a golf club so badly the skull is visable while laughing, only stopping when someone else intervened, laughed in court about it and then committed more crimes whilst serving community service. . .

Maybe this charitable foundation can support victims of violent crime such as oh let me think being attacked by a machete

I would donate to that. But to repatriate someone and give them a send off no chance

Yes exactly.

Whoever he was...I don't understand why anyone would donate. What's the reasoning behind it? People die all the time and funerals have to be paid for...I don't understand the mentality of asking for donations

You really think she's going to contribute towards these costs?

This whole story makes me think there probably is a god after all ......

I was thinking Darwin Awards.

Do you really think he bothered about insurance.?

People like this go on holiday and when it goes wrong....

GoFundMe.

If she wants her son to have a lavish send off then she needs to pay for it, not beg other people who are probably a lot less fortunate than her to do so.

He was a wrong un. Like it or not, it’s true. It’s sad a mother has lost her child, but she’s coming across as incredibly greedy imo.

My opinion of Jay hasn't changed since he went missing: he's just a teenage twit. Giggling in court for ABH, not being able to find his own way back to his hotel, yomping off across the mountains because he wanted breakfast despite being offered a lift, knowing there would be a bus, and his mate Bradley telling him not to try walking.

All those of us who've been teenage twits could've come to a sad end. I once crossed a Greek island on foot, following a goat track, in the middle of the night. I'm glad I didn't end up down a ravine and I'm sorry Jay did.

His parents - and the secretive Lucy - have been extremely opaque on why they want all this money, though. It's none of my business but I don't have to like 'em for it.