BREAKING NEWS Body feared to be missing teenager Jay Slater is airlifted out of 'inaccessible area' close to where his mobile phone last pinged 29 days ago - as Spanish police reveal what may have happened Apprentice bricklayer Jay Slater, 19, vanished on island of Tenerife on June 17 Follow MailOnline's live blog for the latest Jay Slater updates By Arthur Parashar and Nick Pisa and Gerard Couzens and Rory Tingle Published: 15:54 BST, 15 July 2024 | Updated: 17:01 BST, 15 July 2024 e-mail 139 shares 375 View comments A body found in the hunt for missing British teenager Jay Slater was airlifted by helicopter from an 'inaccessible area' close to where his mobile phone last pinged 29 days ago. The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, vanished on the morning of June 17 on the island of Tenerife, prompting a huge search to try and find him . Spanish police called off the official search after 13 days, but today announced they had discovered a body.
While a formal identification has not yet taken place, officers say that 'everything is pointing to it being' Jay. Police said in a statement that he may have died after 'suffering an accident or fall in the inaccessible area where he was found', but that an autopsy would provide further details. A helicopter - believed to belong to a regional government emergency and rescue group - was used to recover the body using a winch because the ground was so steep, with officials coordinating with Civil Guard m.