The 19-year-old teenager has been missing on the Spanish island for two weeks after being seen leaving a nightclub. A friend claimed to have seen his feet “sliding” down the hill.
Spanish police have ended their search for young Briton Jay Slate, who has been missing in Tenerife, Canary Island, since June 17. However, local authorities insist that the case remains open.
“TO The search operation is no longer active, but the case remains open and there are several lines of investigation,” the Spanish Civil Guard spokeswoman told the Reuters news agency.
After an appeal from the Civil Guard, several volunteers joined the police, on Saturday, when it was the last search operation for young people from Lancashire near the Masca ravina, north of the island — the location where their telephone was located. last time. The mission ended up bringing together more than 30 people.
Since his disappearance, several police officers, rescue teams and firefighters have been searching for the 19-year-old Briton using search dogs, drones and a helicopter. However, as it was a rocky area and difficult to access, the operation lasted more days than expected, according to what the Civil Guard reported to Reuters.
On the British news channel Sky News, Spanish authorities revealed that theThey have not yet ruled out the possibility of carrying out searches in the south of the island.
Jay Slate was vacationing on the Spanish island with friends, and was last seen at the NRG music event, held at the Papayago nightclub, late on June 16. After leaving the club, he got into a car heading to a local accommodation in Masca with two other men. The next day, he was seen in the Teno Rural Park – 11 hours away from where he was staying – trying to catch a bus. Ofelia Medina Hernández admitted to Sky News that she spoke to the young man to tell him that the bus would still take two hours, but Slate began walking “fast.”
The last contact with the teenager was made at 8:30 a.m. that same day, in a telephone conversation with a friend who was on vacation with him. In this conversation, Jay Slater stated that he was returning to his accommodation on foot and that he would be lost., need to drink water: I had 1% battery on my cell phone. Brad Hargreaves, in a conversation on the British television channel ITV’s This Morning program, admitted to having been on a video call with his friend, in which he saw his feet “sliding” down a hill.
Following his disappearance, the young man’s family also joined the investigation and made public a photograph believed to be of the teenager captured by video surveillance in a neighbouring region.
Source: Observadora
