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24 Jun 2024


NextImg:Jay Slater search MAPPED: Scale of the hunt laid bare and the unanswered questions around his disappearance

Search teams in Tenerife continue to search for missing British teenager Jay Slater one week after his disappearance.

The 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire vanished whilst on holiday in Spain on Monday, June 17.

Jay flew from Lancashire to the Canary Islands to attend the New Generation Rave (NGR) music festival with his friends but disappeared after travelling to a remote Airbnb with two men on the evening of Sunday, June 16.

His mother and father, Debbie Duncan and Warren Slater, travelled to Tenerife to help search for their missing son.

Search teams are scouring the area with police deploying helicopters, drones and sniffer dogs to aid the search.

Jay SlaterJay Slater flew from Lancashire to the Canary Islands for a music festival when he disappeared PA Wire

Jay was last heard from at 8:15 am on Monday, June 17 after he phoned his friend Lucy Law to say that he was lost, dehydrated and had a low battery on his phone.

After attending the NGR music festival in Playa de las Americas the night before, the teenager travelled alone with two men he had met to a national park in northwest Tenerife.

At about 7:30 am Jay posted a photograph on Snapchat showing him at the doorway of a property tagged with the location Parque Rural de Teno.

The last location recorded on Jay's phone was at 8:50 am in the Rural de Teno National Park, several hundred feet above the small village of Masca, and there has been no further trace of him since.

The park is about a 40-minute drive from where Jay and his friends were staying.

Map of Jay Slater locations

This map shows where Jay attended the music festival and where his last known location on the island was

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According to his friend Lucy, Jay missed his bus back and decided to walk the 10-hour distance to Los Cristianos.

A woman named Ofelia Medina Hernandez, whose brother owns the cottage where the men were staying said that Jay had asked her about bus times.

She said: “I held up my fingers on my hands to say 10 am as he didn’t understand me then I went home briefly before driving up the mountain to Buenavista del Norte, but this time I saw him walking on the road out of the village.

“It was no more than ten or fifteen minutes after I had spoken to him and he was about a kilometre from the house. I drove past him and that’s the last I saw him.”

Search and rescue team in Tenerife

Search teams are scouring the area with police deploying helicopters, drones and sniffer dogs to aid the search

PA

Jay met two men, believed to be British, during the festival and decided to return to their Airbnb while his friends went home.

The two men were questioned briefly by Spanish police before flying back to the UK. Jay's friend Lucy said that she was able to track down the Airbnb where he had been staying and speak to the men who were there.

Lucy said: "They seemed startled and surprised that I had found them, and I asked them where Jay was.

"They said he had gone out to try and look for cigarettes and then come back and said he was leaving to try and get a bus back into town.

"They just seemed shocked that I had managed to find them and I know the police have spoken to them but I've since found out they have left the country. They need to be spoken to properly."

Search and rescue teams near to the village of Masca, Tenerife

Search and rescue teams near to the village of Masca, Tenerife

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Both Jay's mother and father have questioned the possibility that Jay was taken on the Spanish Island.

Slater’s father told the Manchester Evening News: “You think, has somebody got him? Because no matter if you were drunk or whatever, you don't go off that road up there.

“I knew right from when I went up there that he wouldn't have gone [off that road]. He isn't stupid. When I saw the police I asked them, seriously, 'would you go off that road?' and I think it woke them up a bit.

“It started out as it being a lad who had gone walking and got lost, or that he may have fallen. But it doesn't make sense. Nobody would walk off that road. Why would he have gone uphill?”

Jay's mother Debbie said that she doesn't "know what to think" about her son's disappearance.

She said: "I'm all over the place and I'm trying to keep positive, has somebody taken him? Is he panicked and lost in the mountains? I just don't know, that's why if anyone has any information please just tell us."

The Spanish police have never said this is a line of enquiry and are still treating him as a missing person.