After four gruelling weeks, the ended when the apprentice bricklayer’s body was discovered in a ravine on the island of Tenerife, seemingly after an “accidental fall”. The 19-year-old was on his first-ever holiday without his family when he on the morning of June 17. He had visited an Airbnb near the village of Masca with two people and, having missed the bus back, embarked on what would have been an 11-hour walk.
The teenager had not been seen or heard from since calling his friend at 8.50am to tell her he was lost, in need of water and that his phone was low on battery. While Spanish police ended their official search on the ground after 12 days, Mr Slater’s friends and family vowed to continue in the hope of finding him.
On Monday human remains, which have yet to be formally identified, were found. As the search for the teenager comes to an end, here’s everything we know about his disappearance: Jay Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, , was last heard from on Monday, 17 June, as he told a friend he planned to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus, a journey expected to take around 11 hours on foot. He had travelled to the tourist hotspot with friends to attend the music festival in Playa de Las Americas in what was his first holiday without his family.
On Sunday, his friend Lucy Law told that she had left the festival early, with Jay staying on and going to a nightclub in Playa de las Americas. He later travelled to an Airbnb in the remote Masca valley with .