Missing Jay Slater pictured at rave in Tenerife hours before he disappeared

A newly discovered image taken at a rave in Tenerife shows missing teenager Jay Slater hours before he disappeared.

The blurry image shows the 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer partying at the NRG festival on Sunday night, June 16. After leaving the event with two men she had befriended, she spent the night at an Airbnb in a mountainous nature reserve and disappeared. shortly after setting off on foot the next morning.

She later called a friend saying she was lost and her cell phone was about to die. The last live location of his phone was the vast Teno Rural Park in the north-west of the island at around 8.30am – and Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, has not been seen or heard from since.

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Today, June 22, investigators were seen removing trash from the rave area. Police were joined by rescue dogs and firefighters as they continued to search for the teenager around Teno Rural Park, which is known to be dangerous due to rocky terrain and extreme weather conditions. Special attention was also paid to a river called Barranco Madre del Agua, at the bottom of a ravine, where staff with sticks carefully searched among fallen palm trees, the Mirror reports.

Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan, who flew to Tenerife on Tuesday, described the search for her son as “a living nightmare”. Speaking to ITV News, Ms Duncan said: “He’s the life and soul, he’s a beautiful boy.”

Jay was last seen by the Airbnb owner when he left the accommodation on Monday. He is believed to have missed the bus to reach friends in the south of the island, an area popular with British tourists. Ophelia, the owner of the lodge, said: “It’s dangerous to walk around here, it’s easy to get lost. He went up the road when I last saw him. He was alone. He was walking normally, although he was fast. .”

Jay’s mother revealed today that a further sighting has been reported since Monday, although this remains unconfirmed. She said: “Someone came in to say they saw someone they thought was Jay walking back down the road, sitting on a bench.

“He was with two men who were looking a little worse for wear and they were near a church, this guy came forward and told the police about it and they are looking into it. We don’t know for sure if it was Jay, but it’s a start. They said it was around 6pm, which is ten hours after he was seen by the lady in the village. But if it was him what was he doing there and who are these two men?

The new image, which shows Jay making his way through a packed dance floor at the NRG festival, follows footage of him from the same night. Footage showed him walking around the club with his sunglasses on.

What we know about Jay Slater’s disappearance

• Jay Slater was reported missing in the British media on Tuesday after the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) confirmed the investigation. He told us: “We are supporting the family of a British man who has been reported missing in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.” FCDO continues to issue this statement to the press.
• Jay’s mother flew to Tenerife on Tuesday to lead the search. However, she said contorted Brits with “Northern accents” called her with hidden numbers and claimed they had her son captive and were holding him because he owed them money. The press and police authorities have not yet been able to verify that Jay was so.
• But on Wednesday, one of Jay’s close friends admitted she too felt the teenager had been kidnapped. She described Jay’s disappearance as suspicious and grew increasingly concerned when authorities shifted the focus of their search from Teno Rural Park to southern tourist towns such as Los Cristianos, which are more than 30 miles away.
• Later on Wednesday, police said they had resumed their search in the mountains after the sighting in the south was deemed to be a false lead.
• Ms Duncan described Jay as “the life and soul” with “everyone loving his company” in a heartbreaking speech on Thursday. She also told ITV News she wished she hadn’t encouraged him to go on holiday, during which the teenager had been on a three-day rave. The mother recalled how she was woken up by police at her home in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, telling her she had to go to Tenerife because her son had been reported missing.
• On Friday night, it emerged that the Spanish police – the Guardia Civil – had refused Lancashire Police’s help in the investigation. Jay is from Lancashire and while his home force said their “thoughts are with Jay’s family”, the Guardia Civil added “they have confirmed that at this time they are satisfied they have the resources they need”.

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