Teenager Jay Slater was on his first ever holiday with friends when he vanished in Tenerife . The apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancs, remains missing and was last seen on a night out on Sunday after going to the three-day NRG music festival with friends Lucy and Brad. When one of his pals last spoke to him on Monday morning, Jay said he was 'in the middle of nowhere' - lost, thirsty and with only one per cent battery left.
The 19-year-old told friend Lucy he was going to walk back to their accommodation - an 11 hour walk - before his phone died, showing his last location in the mountainous Rural de Teno park area. With no sign of him since, here's everything we know about his life. Jay's mother Debbie Duncan, his father Warren Slater and his brother Zak are among those who have rushed to the Canary Island to search for the teen.
Distraught Debbie said her son was a 'popular boy' with 'hundreds of friends'. "He's just a great person who everyone wanted to be with," she said. "He's good looking, he's a popular boy.
He's gorgeous, he's beautiful." "He's my baby," the mum told the BBC . An "all-round nice, bubbly guy with hundreds of friends".
Debbie is godmother to ex-Coronation Street star Vicky Entwistle, who urged people to 'please pray for' Jay, saying 'hope to God they find him'. Jay was completing his apprenticeship at Accrington and Rossendale College, with a spokesman for the education institution saying: "We are deeply concerned about the recent news regard.