For Jay Slater’s family, they could never have suspected that a trip to a music festival in would and finally the discovery of his . The 19-year-old was visiting the island with on his first holiday without his parents, and would in the mountainous Rural de Teno national park. After enjoying time at the NRG music festival, things took a wrong turn for the when he left the tourist area of Playa de Las Americas in a car with two older men, who drove him 22 miles north to an AirBnb in Masca.
He was last heard from at around 8.30am when he phoned his friend Lucy Law to say that he was walking the 11-hour trek home, was lost and dehydrated, and only had one per cent phone battery. What next ensued was a social media frenzy, wild conspiracy theories, a large search operation and 29 days after he was last spotted.
Yet questions continue to remain as to how it took so long for the authorities to find the teenager? The apprentice bricklayer is known to have travelled with two older men, who are reportedly British, during the early hours of the morning to the remote village of Masca. An image posted on his Snapchat social media app showed him standing with a cigarette outside the door of the apartment at 7.30am, shortly before he is known to have left the building to try and walk home.
An eyewitness, Ofelia Medina Hernandez, was the last to see Jay at 8am, and claimed that he had enquired about the next bus, which was due to come in two hours. He then walked away, taking leave of the.