Clothes of missing teenager Jay Slater found near human remains on Tenerife

Donations to a GoFundMe appeal for Jay Slater's family have soared following the discovery of a body in Tenerife.

The appeal has now passed £53,000 with the funds raised to be used to support the teenager's family in the Canary Islands as well as to pay for search efforts. Hundreds of people have donated since Jay was last seen, one month ago, with his mum Debbie Duncan thanking the public.

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Human remains have been found in the area where missing British teenager Jay Slater vanished in northern Tenerife, according to Spanish police.

The Civil Guard said the evidence strongly suggested the remains found near Masca, north western Tenerife, were those of the 19-year-old, who went missing on the Spanish island nearly a month ago.

DNA tests will be carried out to establish the person’s identity, along with an autopsy to uncover the cause of death, police added.

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Jay Slater's heartbroken family have broken their silence after a body was found in the search for the missing teen.

Spanish cops confirmed on Monday morning a body had been discovered close to the site of Jay's last known location in Tenerife.

Although formal identification and a post-mortem have yet to be carried out, the body matched the 19-year-old's description and was found with his belongings.

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Lancashire Police have released a statement after a body was found in Tenerife during the search for Jay Slater.

The 19 year old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, had been missing on the Spanish island since the morning of June 17. Intensive searches have been underway, and today (July 15), four weeks to the day since Jay vanished, Spanish authorities reported the discovery of a body.

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The body found during the search for Jay Slater was found by the Civil Guard Mountain Rescue Team, suggesting he was discovered in difficult terrain, commentators say.

Police in Tenerife have given an update on the exact time human remains were found in the search for missing teenager Jay Slater.

A spokesperson for the Spanish Civil Guard said the remain were found at around 10am on Monday morning. The force said the news was released publicly two hours later.

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Former detective and TV investigator Mark Williams-Thomas has commented on the Spanish police's discovery.

In a post on X, he wrote: "Human remains found and all indications are that it is Jay Slater. The first investigations reveal that he could have suffered an accident fall in the inaccessible area. Family have been updated and formal identification will follow."

Williams-Thomas was asked by a follower if he stood by his previous statement that Slater "took certain actions" while at the rental home in the Rural de Teno park before leaving because he was "clearly worried about his own safety".

Williams-Thomas appeared to be on the defensive, as he responded: "I take it you did not listen carefully to everything I have said. Yeah this statement is 100% correct with the evidence I have / which you don’t have."

Despite publicly calling off the search for Jay Slater at the end of June, today's statement from Spanish police appears to contradict this.

On 30 June, a statement from the Guardia Civil said: “The search operation has now finished, although the case remains open.”

However, today, the force said: “After 29 constant days of searching the lifeless body of the young man has been found in the Masca area.

"Given the complexity of the case the discovery has been possible thanks to the tireless and discreet search carried out by the Civil Guard over these 29 days, in which the natural space was preserved."

The statement added: “Officers of the Civil Guard belonging to the Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group (GREIM) have located this morning the dead body of a young man in the area of Masca, belonging to the municipality of Buenavista del Norte."

This comes after the specialist Dutch team hired by Slater's family landed in Tenerife on Sunday.

Jay Slater's mother revealed over the weekend that some of the £53,000 raised in a GoFundMe appeal was being used to fly in a search team from the Netherlands with drones and specialist dogs.

In a statement, Debbie Duncan said: “We are still here in Tenerife searching daily with the help of volunteers and local hiking groups. As you all know the Guardia Civil gave up the land search after 12 days.

“We have been actively working with search and rescue teams and we can now confirm that we have a team of experts flying in over the weekend from the Netherlands, who will carry on the search with their specialist dogs."

As the team, named Signi Zoekhonden, prepared to board a flight on Sunday from Brussels Airport, volunteer Marieke Krans told the BBC: “We are very committed to come and we are confident in the dogs and in ourselves.

“Our dogs are trained to find people, both alive or dead, and have more skills. They can search underwater, and up mountains, whatever it may be. They are really creative and that means there is more we can do. We will go where the dogs lead us.”

Lancashire Police has issued a statement following the discovery of a body in Tenerife in the search for Jay Slater.

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, went missing on the Spanish island on the morning of June 17. Desperate searches have been ongoing ever since, and today (July 15), exactly four weeks since the teenager disappeared, Spanish police said that a body had been discovered.

The Civil Guard said the human remains had been found in the Masca area, which is where Jay is believed to have gone missing. Police said "everything is pointing to the body being that of Jay".

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Here is a map of Tenerife showing the last known locations Jay Slater was traced to.

After leaving the NRG music festival, in the south of the Spanish island, he is understood to have been driven back to an Airbnb rented out by two British men in the western Rural de Teno national park.

Slater is understood to have left the holiday apartment at around 8am on 17 June to "catch a bus" when he disappeared.

In a statement overseas missing persons charity LBT Global said: “LBT Global is saddened to announce that a body found in Tenerife does look to be that of Jay Slater. It is understood the body was found close to the site of his mobile phone’s last location.

“Although formal identification is yet to be carried out, the body was found with Mr Slater’s possessions and clothes.

“A post-mortem examination and forensic enquiries will follow.

“LBT Global are supporting the family at this distressing time and ask for everyone to afford them space and privacy to come to terms with the news.”

Police in Tenerife said they have found a body in the search for missing Jay Slater.

Officers led the search after Jay disappeared on 17 June after he left an Airbnb in the mountain village of Masca. A visible search involving helicopter and sniffer dogs continued for nearly two weeks before police announced it was being halted.

They had not said in public it was continuing and there had been little outward sign of it going on on a more reduced scale. Police said on June 30 after calling in volunteers for a “last push search” a day earlier, saying: "The search operation has now finished although the case remains open."

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Rescue teams have found human remains in the area where British teenager Jay Slater went missing in Tenerife, it has been reported.

Spanish police made the announcement about the discovery on Monday, the Reuters news agency said.

It reported that police said the evidence "strongly suggested" the remains were those of the 19-year-old.

Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared on 17 June after setting off to walk back to his accommodation.

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Spanish Police said a body believed to be that of Jay Slater has been found near the Tenerife village of Masca.

In a statement reported by Sky News, police 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.

“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.”