JAY Slater's family believe the teen was killed instantly after a horror fall in Tenerife. Searchers discovered a body in a ravine on Monday - four weeks after Jay, 19, disappeared while on holiday with pals. Police said "everything is pointing" to the body being Jay's - and initial evidence suggests he tragically died after an "accidental fall".
Jay's family also believe the Brit teen "fell from height" and was "killed instantly". What we know..
. A family spokesman told Mail Online : "The whole family is absolutely broken. They are devastated.
It's not the outcome they were hoping for. "It looks as if he fell from a height so he would most likely have been killed instantly and he wasn't there for a long time." He said the family "appreciate the remoteness" of the area and "there is no criticism of the search".
While the body has not been formally identified as Jay's, his family expect the remains to be repatriated within a "week or so" - and a post-mortem to take place in both Tenerife and back in the UK. Jay was first reported missing the morning after he travelled to the unforgiving mountainous area of Tenerife in the early hours of June 17. He went to stay at an Airbnb with two men after a night of partying.
He then left in the morning where he tried to do an 11-hour trek back to his own accommodation after missing the bus. Jay made a final frantic call to friend Lucy Mae Law to say he was lost, had one per cent phone battery, and needed water. In an earlier call to frien.
