A body has been found in the search of missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife, according to local Spanish news.
The 19-year-old had travelled to the Canary Islands with two pals for the three-day New Rave Generation music festival when he disappeared on Monday, June 17, sparking a massive search. It was the young man’s first trip away with friends. The apprentice bricklayer had gone back to the accommodation of “two English lads he met at a party” on the Sunday evening for a “few beers”, taking one of the Brit’s hire cars back to the apartment.
And after a near-month long search a body has been found. A Guardia Civil spokesman said: “The mountain rescue and intervention group of the Civil Guard has located the lifeless body of a young man in the Masca area after 29 days of constant search.
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“Given the complexity of the case, the discovery has been possible thanks to the incessant and discreet search carried out by the Civil Guard during these 29 days, in which the natural space was preserved so that it would not be filled with curious onlookers. All indications indicate that it could be the young British man who has been missing since June 17 in the absence of full identification.
“The first investigations reveal that he could have suffered an accident fall in the inaccessible area where he was found.”
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It comes days after a TikTok sleuth claimed that Jay had taken a fall in the area and was “still there”. Known online as ChristopherTenerife – or just Chris – the ex-pat Brit posted a video of himself search a large section of the mountainous region.
During the clip, he claimed that there was “no way” it was searched properly, and added: “I don’t buy into the conspiracy theories, I don’t buy into someone took Jay. When you come and stand on this terrain, if that lad was heading for the coast I honestly think he’s had a bit of misfortune.
“He’s had a fall, he’s had an accident or he’s dehydrated and passed out. I feel he’s in this ravine, in this area of Tenerife . . . missing – I honestly believe that.”
Sadly, it now appears as though Christopher’s assertions were correct.
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