A fresh theory has emerged suggesting that missing 19-year-old Jay Slater may have boarded a yacht in Tenerife. The Lancashire teen disappeared on the Spanish island on the morning of June 17, and the search for him is now entering its fourth week. Jay is believed to have attended a rave at Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas the night before he went missing with friends.

He left the club with two British men, one named Ayub Qassim, 31, known as 'Johnny Vegas', and another unnamed man, heading to their Airbnb rental near the remote village of Masca on the north of the island. Jay was last seen leaving the Airbnb on the Monday morning. Around 8.

30am on the day of his disappearance, Jay called his friend Lucy to say he was lost and trying to get home with no water and only 1% battery left on his phone. Join our WhatsApp news community here for the latest breaking news READ MORE: Deadly nail traps left on access road to beautiful Welsh beach READ MORE: Family 'storm' McDonald's and knock manager unconscious over burger complaint as customers flee Most of the search efforts have been concentrated in an area in the Rural de Teno Park where his phone last pinged. The new theory suggests that Jay may have thrown his phone into the bushes to avoid being tracked and could have then navigated down the nearby Los Gigantes cliffs via a safe route to a nearby jetty.

According to this theory, reported by the Sun newspaper , Jay may have boarded a waiting boat and left the island, r.