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“He would never have his mum worrying like this.” Lucy Law talks to about the disappearance of her friend, Jay Slater, who has been missing on the Spanish island of Tenerife since Monday. Police video shows officers searching for missing British teen Jay Slater in a helicopter and combing the rough terrain in Tenerife’s Barranco de Masca area using dogs, whilst also using drones
Slater, 19, went missing on June 17 and his phone was last traced to the Masca ravine in a remote national park on the Canary Islands archipelago. Dozens of police officers, rescue teams and firefighters have been searching since Wednesday in the steep valley located on the island’s west coast.
The last time Slater was heard of he told a friend his phone battery was about to die and that he had no water but was making his way back to his accommodation, a walk that would have taken over 10 hours.
Massive appeal sees volunteers help search for Jay Slater as two men ruled out of investigation
On Friday, the Guardia Civil appealed for volunteer associations, such as firefighters, and individual volunteers who were experts in rugged terrain to assist in a “massive search” on Saturday.
The search has been focused near Jay Slater’s last-known location in the mountains above the AirBnb, where his phone was last registered at around 8:50am. This was after he contacted his friend Lucy Law to say that he was dehydrated, lost, had injured his leg on a cactus and only had one percent battery left.
Search teams are having to navigate ravines, dense shrubbery and steep rocky areas with sniffer dogs, while drones and helicopters have previously taken part in the search.
The search in the village of Masca, near to his last-known location, is being co-ordinated to take in a steep rocky area, including ravines, trails and paths.
Brigadier Cipriano Martin, chief of the Guardia Civil’s mountain rescue team, said Mr Slater would not have travelled to “any area we don’t go to”. He explained that while it is possible to reach the sea from the search area along old paths, there are rocky drops that require ropes and harnesses to descend safely, which Mr Slater was not equipped for.
Mr Slater had travelled to the Canary Islands to attend the NRG music festival at Papagayo’s nightclub with two friends before his disappearance, and was reportedly driven to the AirBnb during the early hours of the morning.
His friend Brad Hargreaves said he had been on a video call with him when he heard him go off the road, and could see his feet “sliding” down the hill and hear him walking on gravel. However, Mr Hargreaves said they were both laughing at that point and Mr Slater didn’t seem concerned.
Earlier this week, his mother Debbie Duncan, who travelled to the island following his disappearance, said money raised online would be used to support mountain rescue teams, and to cover her own accommodation and food costs. More than £40,000 had been raised by Friday through a GoFundMe appeal set up by Ms Law, his friend and the last person to speak to him.
