Body found in area where Jay Slater went missing in Tenerife

Rescue teams on the Spanish island of Tenerife have discovered the body of a young man in the area where the British teenager Jay Slater disappeared.

In a statement, Spain’s national police force, the Guardia Civil, said rescuers had found remains.

Slater, 19, an apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire, went missing after attending a music festival on the island four weeks ago. He was last seen walking alone in the Rural de Teno national park, a rugged and remote area on the opposite side of the island to the holiday resort where he had been staying with friends.

The statement said: “Civil Guard agents belonging to Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group (GREIM) located in this morning the lifeless body of a young man in the Masca area, belonging to the municipality of Buenavista del Norte.”

It went on to suggest that the person “could have died due to [an] accidental fall on the cliff and inaccessible area where [the body] had been found.”

Spanish police said that for 29 days they had run a “constant search carried out by different units of the Guardia Civil, in which they have not stopped to look for the young man every day in the area of ​​Masca”.

More details soon …