Seven days have passed since British teen Jay Slater vanished after partying at New Rave Generation music festival on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, was last heard from when he called friend Lucy Mae Law shortly before 9am on Monday.
He had missed the bus back to his apartment in the town of Los Cristianos where he was staying, and faced a gruelling 10-hour walk back.
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Jay’s last known location was on a path in the mountainous terrain of the Rural de Teno national park on the north-west of the island, where his phone last pinged.
Emergency workers met in various locations throughout the day, combing bushes, overgrown terrain, hillsides and rivers but failed to find the missing teenager.
Fears are growing about what has happened to the apprentice bricklayer after yet another day passed with no major breakthroughs in the case.
Metro.co.uk has put together a timeline of Jay’s disappearance, from where he was last seen – as shown in a TikTok video – to the sight of the search.
Jay Slater’s disappearance: from NRG Festival to last known sighting
Sunday, June 16
Jay Slater attends the NRG music festival at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas with his friends.
Monday, June 17
Jay leaves the party and gets into a car with two men he had met that night.
7.30am – He posts a picture on Snapchat showing him at the doorway of a property, tagged with the location Parque Rural de Teno.
He is seen wearing a grey T-shirt with a green stripe – this is the last confirmed sighting of him.
8.15am– The teenager makes a final phone call to his friend Lucy Mae Law, telling her he has missed his bus.
He says he is ‘in the middle of mountains’ with ‘nothing around’, and that he needs water. Then the phone cuts out, with his battery dying.
According to the last location on his mobile phone, he is at Rural de Teno Park, a mountainous area of a national park, around 10 hours’ walk from his apartment complex.
9.04am– Police in Tenerife are alerted, and Jay’s friend Lucy contactsthe British Embassy.
A spokesperson for the Foreign Office said: ‘We are supporting the family of a British man who has been reported missing in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.’
2pm – His friends begin circulating a description of Jay, including the clothes he was wearing.
Tuesday, June 18
Jay’s friends begin searching the mountainous area where his phone last pinged his location. There is still no trace of him.
Spanish police and mountain rescue teams begin searching as well. Sniffer dogs and a helicopter are also deployed to the scene.
11.35am – Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan and brother Zak board a flight to Tenerife.
2.30pm – Debbie posts an appeal on Facebook, pleading that anyone with information about her son’s whereabouts to contact her.
Wednesday, June 19
The search is briefly moved to the Los Cristianos area due to a potential sighting, but the lead is ‘discounted’. The operation in the national park is resumed again.
Local residents living in Tenerife begin to distribute missing posters in the hopes of finding Jay and bringing him safely home.
Thursday, June 20
There is still no sign of the teenager, and a scarcity of any leads about what has happened to him.
His friend Lucy launches aGoFundMepage to pay for the living costs of his family while they are in Spain.
Friday, June 21
Lancashire Police confirms it has offered to help the search but says that Spanish Police are ‘satisfied that they have the resources they need.
Conspiracy theories about his disappearance begin to circulate in a Facebook group focused on tracing him.
Some speculate that Jay may have been kidnapped. Others suggest he could be in hiding.
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Saturday, June 22
Police, rescue dog teams and firefighters continue combing the mountainous terrain at Rural de Teno National Park
Jay’s mother issues a direct plea to her son,saying: ‘We just need you home’.
Debbie is contacted about a potential new sigting of her son with two men not believed to be known to him.
He is described in this sighting as looking ‘a bit worse for wear’, but police are yet to confirm this.
Sunday, June 23
A new video reportedly showing Jay partying in Papagayo nightclub with his top off begins circulating on TikTok.
There are fears that Jay’s Instagram account was ‘hacked’ after a mystery sign in.
Rachel Louise Harg, who runs the Jay Slater Missing page on Facebook, said: ‘Jay’s mum’s asked I post this. For everyone asking who has logged into his Instagram account, it’s not him [Jay] or her [his mother], somebody else has logged into it.’
She added: ‘Some people are actually this sick in the head, there are people hacking my accounts and Jay’s family’s, making it pure lies and pretending we are all in it.’
On Sunday afternoon, police narrowed down the search area to a number of small buildings near where his phone last pinged.
Monday, June 24
Jay’s family appear to have ‘switched off all phone and cut contact’ as they’re swamped by media requests and other attention.
That’s according to Mark Williams-Thomas, a former police officer who helped expose Jimmy Savile’s crimes in an ITV documentary.
He has now offered to help Jay’s family find answers about what happened to him.
A video has emerged of Jay, before he vanished, staggering to his feet at a rave with a t-shirt hanging around his neck as others turn their heads to look at him.
His family hope another image – a grainy CCTV still – might show Jay walking near a church near the west coast of Tenerife 10 hours after his mobile phone last pinged.
It’s also near where a man claims he saw Jay sat on a bench with two men near a church around the same time on the evening of Monday, June 17.
Four of Jay’s friends from Oswaldtwhistle have flown out to join the search, and his dad, Warren, has been back out looking for him, saying: ‘It is a living hell.’
Tuesday, June 25
More sniffer dogs were flown in from Madrid to help comb the trail Jay was last heard from.
While there were no developments in the search, police rescued another tourist found during the search for Jay.
A 51-year-old man from Scotland was reportedly pulled from a ravine on Friday in the remote Rural de Tene national park after locals alerted the police.
Jay’s friends slammed false claims that his body ‘has been found’ after a viral TikTok video alleging so.
A friend of Jay’s, Rachel, who has since changed her name on Facebook and removed her profile picture, shared a screenshot of the video with caption ‘This isn’t me!!!!! This is NOT true.’
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