Human remains have been discovered in the search for Jay Slater, a British teenager who went missing nearly a month ago on the island of Tenerife, Spanish police reported on Monday.
While formal identification has yet to be completed, it is believed that the body is Jay Slater, according to the police.
“The Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group of the Civil Guard has located the lifeless body of a young man in the Masca area after 29 days of relentless searching,” the statement read. “All signs point to it being the young British man who has been missing since June 17.”
LBT Global, a charity that has been assisting Slater’s family, stated that the body was found with Slater’s clothing and personal belongings near the last known location of his mobile phone.
Nineteen-year-old Slater was last seen setting out on a walk from Masca, a village in the northwest of the Canary Island, to his accommodation in Los Cristianos in the south. The journey, which covered rugged terrain, would have taken approximately 11 hours on foot.
On the morning he disappeared, Slater made an urgent call to his friend, Lucy Law, saying he was “lost in the mountains, disoriented, desperately needing a drink, and that his phone was at 1%,” she recalled.
The police noted that the body was found in a very remote area and that an autopsy will be conducted “to confirm that the death was accidental.”
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Slater, an apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle in northwest England, had attended a music festival the day before he went missing.
