Jay Slater: Everything we know about the Briton who disappeared in Tenerife

Concerned relatives and friends are still searching for British teenager Jay Slater after he went missing on the island of Tenerife.

The 19-year-old was on holiday for the first time without his family when he disappeared while returning to his accommodation last Monday morning.

He had stayed with two people he had met at the NRG music festival and, having missed the bus home, set off on what would have been an 11-hour walk.

The apprentice mason has not been seen or heard from since he called his girlfriend at 8:50 a.m. to tell her he was lost, needed water and his phone was running low on battery.

Spanish police announced at the weekend that they would end their search after 12 days, while friends and family of Mr Slater vowed to continue scouring the island's Teno Rural Park in the hope of finding him.

As the search for the missing teenager continues, here's everything we know about his disappearance:

Where is his last known location?

Jay Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from on Monday, June 17, when he told a friend he planned to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus, a journey expected to take around 11 hours on foot.

He had travelled to the tourist destination with friends to attend the Playa de Las Americas music festival, on his first holiday without his family.

On Sunday, her friend Lucy Law said: Manchester Evening News that she had left the festival early, and that Jay had stayed on after meeting two British men. He then stayed at their AirBnb in the remote Masca Valley, but left their accommodation around 8am to go home.

Ms Law was the last to hear from the teenager when he called her at 8.50am on Monday, warning her he was lost, had injured his leg, needed water and his phone was at 1% battery. He also called his friend Brad Hargreaves, who heard him “sliding” on gravel, indicating he had left the main road.

Ms Law told the MEN that one of the people Mr Slater met gave them a lift back to his flat in a hire car and the missing man did not realise how far away he was.

“He ended up in the middle of nowhere. Jay obviously thought he could get home from there,” she said.

“But in the morning he went hiking, using the maps on his phone, and found himself in the middle of the mountains, with nothing around.”

Mr Slater's phone then cut off, his last location showing Teno Rural Park, a mountainous area popular with hikers in the north of the island.

Where did the authorities carry out their searches?

A specialist mountain rescue team, including a police helicopter and sniffer dogs, has been deployed to search for Mr Slater.

Search teams focused their efforts on small buildings near where his phone last rang, while officers were seen at the AirBnb and in the nearby valley.

Andrew Knight, known on YouTube as Knightrider, who joined the search, said The Independent climate in Tenerife: “It's steep mountains, rocks crumbling underfoot, cacti everywhere. It's a confusing landscape and there are also extreme climate changes.

“At night the temperature drops to around 12 degrees Celsius, but with the wind chill and thin air at altitude it feels like around 10 degrees.

“In the sun, the temperature can rise to 28 degrees. It can also be quite humid, it rained a little when I was there. It has its own microclimate that changes from hour to hour.”

What did his friends and family say?

After his disappearance, a GoFundMe campaign was created to help with the search and to fund the stay of his family and friends in Tenerife.

In an emotional interview near the search site, his father Warren Slater told reporters he just wanted his son back, while he was also seen sticking posters on nearby bus stops and buildings.

Private investigator Mark Williams-Thomas also travelled to the Canary Islands to support the family, and said they were “completely broken”.

After 12 days of searching, the Civil Guard announced that it was ending its operation, just one day after launching a massive appeal for volunteers.

In a statement released through the UK charity for missing people abroad LBT Global, Debbie Duncan said the search on the ground for her son had been halted, but thanked the Guardia Civil who she said had “worked tirelessly in the mountains where Jay's last phone call was traced”.

His mother's statement said: “We are a very close family and are absolutely devastated by his loss.

“Words cannot describe the pain and agony we feel. He is our beautiful boy, he has his whole life ahead of him and we just want him back.”