Missing Jay Slater latest updates from Tenerife as new nightclub footage emerges (2024)

Rave video could be final moments of missing teen's holiday disappearance

A new rave video may show the last few minutes of Jay Slater's holiday before he went missing in Tenerife.

A newly emerged clip posted on social media claims to show the rave Jay attended before he went missing. The shaky footage, posted on TikTok, shows a busy rave crowded with people. Ravers can be seen milling about the poorly lit room, with a red circle pinpointing an attendee believed to be Jay.

After a few seconds, the teen can be seen passing in front of the camera, with the footage slowing down as he walks by.

Read more: Rave video could be final moments of missing teen's holiday disappearance

Expert's chilling 'accident' warning for Tenerife park where Brit vanished

A Tenerife expert warned it was "inevitable" an accident would happen at a national park – four years before Jay Slater went missing there.

Jay was walking in the Masca area of Tenerife’s Teno Rural Park, which is known to have numerous treacherous ravines and some of the most dangerous trails on the island. Experts have warned the area can be risky even for experienced mountain hikers.

One local expert, warning of the dangers of setting off through the park without adequate preparation and planning, chillingly predicted an accident would happen four years before Jay went missing.

Vicente Infante, trails spokesman of the Tenerife Mountain Federation, warned the trails can be deceptively dangerous, and all too many people attempt them without adequate equipment. He explained: "Hikers in the past were prepared, used suitable footwear, helmets... in short, they carried all the equipment.”

Read more: Expert's chilling 'accident' warning for Tenerife park where Brit vanished

More pictures of search teams in Tenerife

More images of the search teams in Tenerife have been shared.

The pictures show car loads of officers preparing to search the largely barren terrain on the island.

Jay Slater search party 'prepared for possibility' they may find body

Spanish police have admitted they expect to find a body in their ongoing search for teenager Jay Slater - with police saying they will not stop until they have solved the mystery.

The police said “Officers obviously are prepared for the possibility they may find a body.” Images put out by the Civil Guard which is leading the operation to locate the 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer showed the mammoth efforts being made in mountainous terrain near the Tenerife village of Masca where he was last seen early on Monday morning.

Read more: Tenerife police make chilling 12-word admission while hunting for missing teen

TikTok video shows Jay in nightclub before vanishing

New footage supposedly showing Jay Slater enjoying himself at a nightclub has been posted on social media.

The video on TikTok is said to show the 19-year-old walking past the camera.

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Fifth day of Jay Slater search set to get underway

The fifth day of the search for Jay Slater is set to begin.

A BBC reporter on the island shared an image from the island of local police preparing to look for the missing teenager.

Nick Garnett wrote: “Still no sign of Jay Slater."

The search is about to get underway for a fifth day in Tenerife. Still no sign of Jay Slater. pic.twitter.com/lo9D97W5Z3

— Nick Garnett (@NicholasGarnett) June 21, 2024

Family and friends 'drained beyond words'

Family and friends of Jay’s are “drained beyond words”, according to a post on social media.

The Facebook page, launched in the wake of the teenager’s disappearance, has been keeping people up to date with the latest from Tenerife.

A recent post said: “Struggling to find words at this time but all I can say is we are looking still and everyone is doing all they can. We are drained beyond words, I just can’t say no more. "

Homes in Oswaldtwistle decorated in Jay's honour

Neighbours near Jay’s family have decorated their homes with blue ribbons in support of the missing teenager.

Several of the sweet decorations have been put up to raise awareness in Oswaldtwistle.

Neighbour Tracy said: “I'm doing this to show support. God knows what his mum is going through, there is not a lot else we can do except raise awareness. There is a service going ahead at 7.30pm tonight in the church, people are gathering for prayers and to show support to raise more awareness.”

Good Morning Britain reporter points out frustrations with police search

A Good Morning Britain presenter has pointed out why the family and friends of Jay Slater have grown frustrated with the search.

Good Morning Britain's Jonathan Swain, who is reporting live from Tenerife, said: "They were desperately hoping he would be found by now. They are upset, anxious and terrified by what might of happened to him. They have frustrations with the Spanish police

"I saw for myself yesterday how they just appear to be focused on one area - a remote valley in the north of the island - that's where they think Jay's mobile phone was last used. And if Jay was trying to walk back to his holiday hotel in the south of the island, one eyewitness said he was walking the wrong way on Monday morning after that night out."

Read more: Good Morning Britain reporter points out frustrations with police search

Church close to Jay's family 'holding prayers' for teen

Prayers are being held for Jay at a church close to his family’s home in Lancashire.

A neighbour of the missing teen’s family described him as a “grand lad” as the search goes on some 2,000 miles away.

Neighbour Hazel said: “I have watched him grow up over the years, I have lived on this street 16 years and they have lived here much longer than I have. I know his mum, his grandma was friends with my mum - my mum texted me last night and said 'I hope they find him.'

"I have watched him grow up, he is a grand lad, a smashing lad, no problems. I am going to get [the] family a card today and there are prayers at the church down the road tonight. We can't search for him so we are just doing prayers and thinking about him. He is a lovely lad and the family are lovely.”

More pictures from search party in Tenerife

More images have been shared from the search in Tenerife.

The Civil Guard is leading the operation on the island, but the search is a coordinated, multi-organisation effort. Firefighters and local Civil Protection workers are also taking part.

One source said the efforts will continue until the teenager is finally found.

Read more: Jay Slater Tenerife search revealed as new pictures taken from police helicopter released

Police release footage of ongoing search

Two pilots look out of a helicopter co*ckpit as they search the barren Tenerife terrain for missing teenager Jay.

The image was one of several released by teams in the ongoing efforts to find clues as to where the 19-year-old, last heard from on Monday, is.

Jay Slater fundraiser reaches £23,000

A fundraiser launched to help find Jay has topped £23,000.

More than two thousand people have so far donated to the gofundme launched by his friend Lucy Mae - the last person to speak to the teenager on Monday.

The last person to donate wrote: “I can't begin to imagine the pain poor Jay's mum, dad, family and friends are going through right now...as a mum myself I can’t imagine.

“Constantly praying for the best outcome possible for you Jay and somehow get home safe."

Jay Slater's mum explains why she fears missing Brit in Tenerife was abducted

Jay Slater's mum fears her missing son was "bundled off somewhere" when he disappeared in Tenerife.

Jay, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, has not been heard from for nearly a week. The teen last communicated with a friend on Monday, when he told them he planned to brave an 11-hour walk home to his accommodation. His friends and family now fear for his life, with fears building that he may have been abducted from the Spanish island.

Jay's mum, Debbie Duncan, has not heard from her son since he left a rave party on the island. She said: “If he is lost then why hasn't anyone seen him? It's busy with hikers and holidaymakers up there so if he was lost then someone would have seen him, so that's why I think maybe he's been bundled off somewhere."

Read more: Jay Slater's mum explains why she fears missing Brit in Tenerife was abducted

'I wish I hadn't encouraged him'

Jay Slater's mum says she "wishes she had not enoucouraged him" to take a holiday with friends in Tenerife, as the search for the missing teenager enters its fourth day.

The 19-year-old was last heard from on Monday morning when he tried to walk home after missing a bus. He was lost, thirsty and without battery on his mobile phone.

Last night his mother, Debbie, told ITV: "I wish I hadn't encouraged him."

Search area 'difficult for Spanish search teams to navigate'

The area in which Jay Slater is believed to have gone missing is part of a “remote and wild national park,” explained BBC’s Nick Garnett as he visited the area to report on the search.

Faced with cold nights and high winds, the mountainous area could prove to be tricky for emergency personnel searching the area for the missing Lancashire teenager.

"Deep ravines and huge daunting mountains make the national park a difficult place for the Spanish search teams to navigate, but one mountain rescue worker told me this is not the first time they’ve been called out to the area," he said.

"At night, the countryside becomes a maze, pitch black and disorientating."

Search and rescue teams have been concentrating on one particular valley near the top of a mountain pass, according to reports, with a helicopter also surveying the area.

Loved ones in Jay’s hometown pray for his safe return

Friends, family and members of Jay’s local community in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire came together on Thursday to pray for the safe return of the missing teenager.

During the service, one friend of the teen told Sky News that he was “the life and soul of the party,” before adding: “Everywhere you see him he’s just constantly got a smile on his face. He’s always just a happy chap.”

Describing him as “one of a kind”, others also leant their support to friends who wanted to join the search effort but couldn’t make it to Tenerife to continue on the ground reaches.

The search is set to continue later today.

Weather forecast for continued search efforts

As the search for Jay Slater moves into yet another day, weather conditions in and around Masca, the area being searched, continue to be stable for supporting rescue efforts.

On Friday, the forecast is said to be sunny intervals with a moderate breeze, with a high temperature of around 20°C. There is also currently a 27% of rain in the early part of the morning.

While the weather forecast may be hospitable however, the terrain of Jay’s last known whereabouts on Monday, is less so, with locals in the area having warned that it was “difficult” and potentially dangerous due to “thin air”, and being “steep and loose underfoot.”

With this in mind volunteers hoping to join the search for Jay have been urged to contact the local group coordinator in Masca first, rather than trying to search on their own.

You can reach them by calling 062 in Tenerife, and stating you want to join the search for Jay.

Members of the public urged to stop contacting Jay’s mum

As the search for Jay Slater continues, members of the public are being urged to stop contacting his worried mum Debbie directly as she struggles to process the emotional toll of having yet to find her missing son.

In a post shared in a Facebook group set up to help find the Lancashire 19 year old, group admin Rach Louise Harg wrote: “Why are people still messaging Jay’s mum?”

“What is wrong with people anything you have which is of value then please add into the group or call the Spanish police she doesn’t need this it’s been asked it stops !!!

“There still isn’t any update for Jay !! We are all doing what we can and we won’t stop till he’s found.”

Last person to speak to Jay calls for British police to help with search

The last person to speak to Jay Slater before he vanished on Monday has called upon British police to join the search amid the ongoing investigation into his disappearance while enjoying his first solo holiday in Tenerife.

Speaking to the Mirror, Lucy Law said: “We need British police here. I just want to find my mate. He’s been missing three days. It’s not looking good now. We feel as though it’s down to us to find him and that we’re doing more than the police.

“The police here don’t speak English and don’t even have a translator after three days. I feel like they’re fobbing me off. They’re still asking me the same questions as when I first reported Jay missing.”

She added: “The two boys that he was last with have left the country. They need to be questioned by British police.”

More than 72 hours of searching

As the search for missing teenager Jay Slater enters its fourth day, teams will once again continue to scour the area in and around Masca and the Teno Rural Park in the hopes of finding him.

So far a number of resources have been deployed in the search including several units of the Guardia Civil, helicopters, sniffer dogs and mountain rescue personnel, as well as using drones to search areas that cannot be easily accessed on foot.

In addition, it is also understood that the fire brigade have scaled ravines to try and see if Jay had collapsed or fallen on any of the rocky trails in the area.

Tenerife local sheds new light on two men seen with Jay

A Tenerife local has lifted the lid on the two British men Jay Slater was with before he disappeared.

A woman named only as Araceli, who works in the business adjoining the rented holiday home where Jay is believed to have partied with the pair, said: “I never saw the missing boy, but I know people saw him walking on his own. I saw the two British men who stayed here.

“They came in for cafe con leche a couple of times. One was aged about 40. The other one was slightly younger.” She told The Mirror: “The police have spoken to them both.

“They arrived on Saturday and we’re due to stay until Monday, but they left on Tuesday.” Asked if they had to stay to be interviewed by police, she said: “I don’t know”.

The timeline of events so far

Sunday (June 16): Jay attends the NRG Tenerife Weekender festival with friends

That evening, Jay leaves the festival and decides to stay out with some other friends, one of whom had a rental car.

At 8.35pm, Jay was seen in the last Snapchat video before his disappearance, wearing a grey T-shirt with a green trim.

On Monday, June 17, at 8.15am, Jay's friend Lucy received a call from him. He said he was lost in a rural area, thirsty, and his phone battery was down to 1pc. He told his friends he had missed the bus back and was trying to navigate his way back using a maps app on his phone.

8.50am: Jay's phone battery depletes.

9.04am: Tenerife authorities receive a report of the incident.

Tuesday, 2am: Police officers notify Jay's mother Debbie Duncan and stepfather Andy Watson about his disappearance.

11.35am: Debbie and her other son Zak arrive in Tenerife on the earliest available flight.

1.45pm: Specialist mountain rescue teams and helicopters are deployed in the search to find missing Jay.

Wednesday, 12.30pm: The Civil Guard confirm they have shifted search efforts to the south of the island around the tourist areas of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas after reports of a sighting.

Wednesday afternoon: Police later say they have resumed their search in the mountains after it's believed the sighting was a false lead.

Thursday morning: The search for Jay Slater entered it’s third day, with volunteers and emergency services continuing to search for the missing teenager.

At around 5am, his friend Lucy officially confirmed that a GoFundMe page had been set up to support his family and friends in their search in Tenerife.

Thursday afternoon: Jay’s gran speaks for the first time about her worry over his disappearance.

Thursday evening 9pm: Jay’s loved ones vow to ‘remain positive’ after another unsuccessful search day

Official GoFundMe page surpasses £22,000

An official GoFundMe page set up for missing teenager Jay Slater has raised over £22,000 less than a day after it was launched. The fundraiser was set up by his friend Lucy Mae, who has been helping searching efforts in the Spanish island of Tenerife.

Writing on the page, she said: "Hi everyone my name is Lucy. I have come on holiday to Tenerife to attend the NRG festival with my friend Jay and another friend.

"On the last day of the festival, I left alone, earlier than everyone else, because I was tired from the weekend. I woke up to a phone call off Jay at 8.30 AM saying 'he was lost in the mountains, he wasn’t aware of his surroundings, he desperately needed a drink and his phone was on 1%'.

"He had met two people on Sunday night and left with them to go to their apartment. Their apartment was miles away from civilisation and in a very secluded location.

"He left at 8am, and walked half an hour before frantically ringing me when his phone reached 1%. This was three days ago now, and no one has seen or heard from him since.

"His last location was on an off-road track, which was a 10 hour walk from his hotel. The weather conditions up there are terrible for someone in shorts and a t-shirt, both in the day and at night.

"He has no water for when it’s warm through out the day, and he has no coat/suitable clothing for when it’s cold at night. It was 1 degree and extremely windy when I was out looking in the middle of the night.

"We are all so worried and we just want him home. Please help if you can and share far and wide."

To donate to the page, click here.

One member of the public at the scene of the search sheds light on ‘difficult’ terrain

As search efforts continue in and around Masca, a member of the public on the ground in Tenerife has shared insight into the ‘difficult’ terrain currently being searched by experts and volunteers.

Posting on the official ‘Jay Slater Missing’ Facebook group, Andrew Knight (sic) wrote: “I am here at the base location now in Masca. Until you get here you don’t realise just how extreme and difficult the landscape is.”

“ Search dog has just been put in the van and moved to a different location. Whilest carefully doing my own walks, I am filming a small informative video to go up tonight if appropriate, regarding information on location and just to show the level of difficulty with how baron it is.”

“Seen a couple of my cars up here but certainly could be more people on the pathways walking, if you do come up BE CAREFUL, its 17 degrees (10 degrees different to the South) and is raining, thin air, steep and loose under foot.”

Jay’s friends and family vow to ‘remain positive’ as day four of search concludes

Loved ones of Jay Slater have vowed to “remain positive” in an update shared on a 'Jay Slater Missing' Facebook group. Group admin Rach Louise Harg wrote: “There isn’t a update to anyone unfortunately."

"Struggling to find words at this time but all I can say is we are looking still and everyone is doing all they can!! We are drained beyond words I just can’t say no more I wish I could I wish this would end now this living nightmare SEARCHES are on going and we remain positive.

“If anyone as not got anything positive to say don’t even bother now just go away honestly. Thanks to you all supporting and helping we can’t thank you any more. Much love.”

Jay's mum makes desperate plea for locals to help search

Earlier today, Jay's mum said searching for her son was “an absolute living nightmare”. Debbie Duncan flew to Tenerife on Tuesday morning to search for the 19-year-old. She told ITV News: “It’s just a nightmare, it’s an absolute living nightmare. I wouldn’t wish this on anybody. I just want my baby back.

“Please just anybody who can help – look for him. It’s a massive area up there. He’s out there somewhere or somebody knows where he is.”

'Lost village' where Jay vanished is remote and treacherous

The remote region where missing teen Jay Slater was last heard from is notoriously remote and treacherous, locals have said.

The tiny hamlet of Masca clings to the rocky outcrops of North Western Tenerife in the rugged Parque Rural de Teno, with locals calling it the “lost village” as it didn’t even have a road connection until the 1990s. It is one of the most remote parts of Tenerife, and in the past few years more rescues have been carried out here than anywhere else in the Canary Islands, according to the website of the Masca visitors centre.

The treacherous terrain is made up of steep, rocky mountain trails and sheer gorges with numerous paths that can lead unwary walkers astray, one local has said.

A worker at the visitor centre in Masca, which issues passes to hikers undertaking the gruelling walk down the region’s famous canyon, said it was easy to get lost. “There's a lot of people that usually get lost here, there’s a lot of forest. We’ve already had a lot of news of tourists getting on trails they shouldn’t have and getting lost. I’ve seen a lot of helicopters flying around the rural park for years,” she told the Mirror.

She said it could be a dangerous place to walk if you were to stray off the official trails.

Jay 'would not walk 8 hours' says step-dad

Jay Slater’s stepfather says the missing teenager would not have walked for eight hours, as at home he would have to take him to get his hair cut.

Andy Watson, told MailOnline: “He has me run him down to the hairdressers, 200 yards away - why would he walk eight hours?

“Who lives in the mountains? It would be wrong to speculate, but everyone has their own impression in their head. I wouldn't have gone off with two people I didn't know. But he's 19, he's impressionable, isn't he? If someone said there's more drink at our house, he's going to go.”

Jay's nan is trying not to 'fear the worst'

Jay Slater's grandmother said in a heartbreaking interview that she is "terrified" and "can't bear to think about what's happened to Jay."

June Duncan, 77, told LancsLive: "The longer it goes on the more worrying it is. I'm just getting through each day at a time. I watched all that on the news about [TV doctor] Michael Mosley and it's just so similar. It's hot out there in Tenerife."

She also admitted she has been trying not to 'fear the worst'. She said: "You've got to remain positive. I'm trying not to think about it too much but I can't help it. I just feel so powerless."