The search for missing teen Jay Slater came to a devastating end for his family when police discovered his 'lifeless body'. For four weeks, Spanish police searched within the depths of the unforgiving terrain of Parque Rural de Teno nature reserve in Tenerife, close to where the 19-year-old's phone last pinged. His mum Debbie Duncan, dad Warren Slater, and older brother Zak all helped in the desperate bid to find their 'beautiful son' but it was tragically too late.
The apprentice bricklayer, from Lancashire, had vanished on his first holiday abroad with pals. He had partied at the three-day NRG musical festival before extending his night out with two British men. In the early hours of June 17, he headed to their Airbnb in the remote village of Masca.
Shortly before 9am on that fateful Monday, he had left the holiday rental and set out to walk back to his accommodation in the south of the island, believed to be an 11-hour trek after missing the local bus. He warned his friends, who he had been staying with, that he was thirsty and had no clue where he was, shortly before his phone died. Mountain rescue teams combed through the dense vegetation and steep ravines in scorching temperatures and eventually, on Monday, July 15, Spanish police confirmed that a young man's body had been discovered in a ravine near a phone mast, along with Jay's clothes and possessions.
Fingerprints later confirmed it was Jay however as the body was 'very deteriorated' , efforts have now turned to det.