Year-long search continues for missing man in Tenerife

The search for a missing British teenager in Tenerife has entered its 7th generation.

Jay Slater, of Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared at the last speed after attending a concert on the Spanish island.

The 19-year-old man has not been heard from since he called a friend on Monday and said he was lost and needed water.

Search teams were seen focusing on a few small buildings on Sunday morning, where his phone was last located.

One man who came from the United Kingdom to assist described the hunt as “finding a needle in a haystack.”

Specialist dog teams have also been sent out to search for Mr Slater.

Spanish police declined to comment when asked on Saturday about reports of Mr Slater’s sighting on Monday – via telephone call.

His mother is Debbie Duncan immediately issued a petition to his sonPronouncing: “We just need your house.”

On Saturday, the sixth generation of the hunting expedition, police, rescue dog groups and firefighters resumed the search of the mountainous plain in the Rural de Teno Nationwide Terrain – Mr Slater’s last recognized location.

Climber Paul Arnott, 29, from Flitwick, Bedfordshire, was blown away when he heard the appeal for support.

He said: “It’s crazy, I’ve been in and out of buildings and into ravines.

“Yet it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

“Until you get out here, you can’t believe how steep and big this area is.

“However, I thought there might be additional populations to look for.”

Friends and family of the apprentice mason have said he had earlier left the group with which he traveled to the tourist resort of Playa de las Americas in the south of the island.

After leaving the NRG concert at the Papagayo nightclub, he got into a car with two people he met to drive towards the national park in north-west Tenerife.

Friday’s efforts were concentrated on a mountain road in a ravine in northern Tenerife, before moving into a valley near the village of Masca.

Dogs, police and mountain rescue workers searched areas including land around the apartment in Maska where Mr Slater had allegedly traveled.

Search parties searching for Mr Slater on Saturday were reportedly smaller than in previous days. Only a handful of emergency workers were seen in Maska and surrounding areas.

It appeared that firefighters were doing most of the searching in these areas.

Rescue teams, accompanied by search dogs, set off on a steep gravel track in Rural de Teno Park on Saturday.

Away from grassroots search efforts, the administrator of a Facebook page set up to help find Mr Slater said someone who was not the 19-year-old had logged into his Instagram account.

Rachel Louise Harg said the people who were “hacking” her family’s social media accounts were “unwell to the core”.

He also said that a fundraising page had been set up to help family and friends living in Tenerife search for him. Donations to the page have now reached over £28,000.

Many members of the community in Oswaldtwistle have expressed concerns about Mr Slater’s well-being.

The Reverend Matt Smith of West End Methodist Church said a service held on Sunday was a “potential for people to return to the congregation”.

During the service, he said that “as the glimmer of hope has dimmed… we miss his people and friends – and we pray that he may possibly come home”.

Lancashire Police said on Saturday that specialist officers were continuing to support Mr Slater’s family.

The force had previously said it had offered to assist Spanish police in the search for him, but their counterparts in Tenerife were told they had sufficient resources.

Mr Slater was on his first holiday without family and had gone with two friends to attend the festivities.

Lucy Law, who is believed to have been the last person to speak to him, said he told her in the call that he had missed a bus and decided to make the 10-hour journey home, but that They were lost, they needed water and their phone was at 1. % Battery.

Rural de Teno Park is about a 40-minute drive from where Mr Slater and his friends were staying.

A remote and wild national park, it is a far cry from the party town holiday resorts of the island’s southern coast, Los Cristianos and Playa de las Americas.

Deep ravines and vast fearsome mountains made the national park a difficult place for Spanish search teams to navigate.

• sunday 16th june – Jay Slater and friends attend the final day of the NRG concert at the Papagayo nightclub in the tourist destination of Playa de las Americas.

• Monday 17th June – Between 03:00 and 06:00 BST Mr Slater got into a car with two people he met while on holiday and drove away from Playa de las Americas

• 07:30 – Mr Slater posted a photo on his Snapchat account showing him at the door of a property, with its location tagged as Parque Rural de Teno.

• Between 08:30 and 09:00 – Mr Slater phoned his friend and said he missed his bus back south and was trying to make the 10-hour journey on foot.

• The call is disconnected, the last location on his phone shows a trail in the mountainous rural De Teno National Park, popular with hikers.

• Tuesday 18th June – Despite a search of the area by his friends, there was no trace of Mr Slater and he did not return to his residence

• Local police and mountain rescue teams begin a search and his mother and brother fly to Tenerife.

• Wednesday 19th June – The Spanish Guardia Civil continued the search using drones, dogs and a helicopter but found no trace

• The search was briefly moved to the Los Cristianos area in the south of the island due to possible sightings, but police immediately “cut the cost” and moved the search back to the original area.

• Thursday 20th June – The Guardia Civil, mountain rescue teams, firefighters and volunteers have returned to inspect the national park

• Friday 21st June – Lancashire Police confirm it has offered to help with the search, but say Spanish police are “delighted they have the property they wanted”.

• Saturday 22nd June – Police, rescue dog teams and firefighters continue to search the mountainous terrain of Rural de Teno National Park

• His mother, Debbie Duncan, made a direct appeal to her son, Saying: “We just want your house”

Additional reporting by Nick Garnett in Tenerife