Rescuers will continue searching for Jay Slater today one week after the British teenager went missing in Tenerife.
The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer has not been seen or heard from since Monday, June 17, when he called a friend to say he was lost, in need of water and out of phone battery as he attempted to return to his accommodation on the island.
Mr Slater’s family have flown to Tenerife to help find him while a GoFundMe appeal to raise money for the search passed its £30,000 target over the weekend.
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MailOnline has put together a timeline and a map of all possible sightings of Jay Slater as the hunt for the missing British teenager enters a new week.
Jay had been attending a three-days NRG festival due to end last Sunday with events at the Papagayo Beach Club in South Tenerife. Ahead of going back to the club, Jay sent his relative Isabelle Price a brief Snapchat video showing him and his surroundings in Arona, near the main party drag.
Pictures showed him walking through a sea of clubbers with sunglasses propped on his head at the festival where he was last seen by his friends on the Spanish island on Sunday night – while a photo showed him with friend Lucy Mae Law there.
Jay’s last Snapchat photo was posted, showing his hand holding a cigarette at accommodation near the Rural de Teno Park. He is thought to have headed to the £40-per-night AirBNB with two British men.
His friend Lucy – who has since led criticism of Spanish police – received a phone call from Jay at about 8am, telling her he was ‘lost in the mountains with no water’ and just one per cent battery on his mobile.
This was the last – so far – confirmed sighting, with the Airbnb’s owner Ophelia Medina Hernandez describing how she saw him walking at pace in the nearby village Masca – apparently heading away from Playa de las Americas.
Mr Slater’s phone died at about 8.50am, with his last known location registered to the Rural de Teno park near Masca where he had apparently stayed that night.
Jay is reported missing by friends including Lucy, before the UK Foreign Office is alerted later that day – and police launched mountain rescue operation.
A new potential sighting has now been reported by a man who says someone resembling Jay was sitting on a bench beside a church at Santiago de Teide, back closer towards Playa de las Americas.
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It has been one week since Jay was last heard of after he called a friend to say he was lost, in need of water and out of phone battery as he attempted to return to his accommodation on the island.
Friends and family flew out last week to help find the 19-year-old and a GoFundMe appeal to raise money for the search passed its £30,000 target over the weekend.
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Jay Slater missing latest updates: Hunt for vanished teen continues one week after he disappeared in Tenerife