Specialist search dogs brought in to hunt for missing Jay Slater

Specialist search dogs have been drafted in from the Spanish capital Madrid to help in the hunt for British teenager Jay Slater.

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn in Lancashire, was last seen in Tenerife in the morning of Monday 17 June.

Mr Slater had travelled to the northwestern mountain village of Masca after attending the NRG musical festival on Sunday night.

The apprentice bricklayer phoned a friend he had been holidaying with at around 8:30am the following morning to say he he was walking back to his accommodation in the southern town of Los Cristianos after missing a bus.

During the short phone call he said he would walk instead - a journey that would take 11 hours on foot and involve walking through mountainous terrain.

He also said he was lost, in need of water, and only had 1% charge on his phone.

Police, mountain rescuers and Mr Slater's family are trying to find the British teenager as the search for him is into its ninth day.

Tenerife police confirmed today that several dogs from Madrid are now helping with the search and rescue effort.

The force said: "The Civil Guard continues with the search device for the young British man who disappeared in the Masca neighbourhood, belonging to the municipality of Buenavista del Norte (Tenerife), in which different units of the Civil Guard participate.

"In addition, today several Canine Guides of the Civil Guard dispatched from Madrid with their canine agents specialized in the search for people on large areas of land, belonging to the Cynological Service of the Civil Guard."

Last night, his family shared a blurry image of what they believe could be the missing teenager captured on CCTV in a nearby town 10 hours after he was first reported missing.

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