Jay Slater: Photographs show Tenerife property where missing British teenager was last seen | UK News

A friend of Mr Slater said he told him on the phone on Monday morning that he had missed a bus while trying to get back to his accommodation and was planning to walk instead – a journey which would take 11 hours.

Photographs show the Tenerife property where British teenager Jay Slater was allegedly last seen before he disappeared on Monday.

A Snapchat video shared by the 19-year-old on Sunday evening appears to show the property he visited in the northwestern village of Masca after attending the NRG music festival.

Mr Slater, from Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn in Lancashire, was on holiday with friends on the island before he disappeared.

Her friend Lucy Law said Wednesday UK Tonight program on Sky News, she spoke to Mr Slater on the phone at around 8.15am local time on Monday.

During the short phone call, he told her he had missed a bus while trying to get back to his holiday accommodation and so was trying to walk instead – a journey which would take 11 hours.

She said he told her he had “cut his leg on a cactus“, did not know where he was and his cell phone battery had dropped to 1%.

Ms Law also said Mr Slater told her he “needed a drink”.

He was able to send her his last live location, which was called Teno Rural Park – a mountainous area popular with hikers – before his phone was cut off.

Ms Law said Mr Slater, an apprentice bricklayer, was “not a stupid boy” and would have flagged down any passing car or spoken to a passer-by.

Shortly after Mr Slater disappeared, an American woman offered to drive Ms Law to the mountains.

There was “literally no sign of him anywhere,” she said. “We drove all day.”

Ms Law added that they “managed to find the house” where Mr Slater was last seen.

She continued: “I knocked on the door and there were two people.”

They told Ms Law that Mr Slater had gone out to have a cigarette before returning and saying he wanted to go home.

“They told me he spoke to the neighbors next door and they told him there was a bus every 10 minutes to go back to Los Cristianos.

“The bus stop was right next to the house. So obviously if he had gone to get the bus he wouldn't have gotten lost because [the stop] was visible from the front door.

The teenager was wearing a T-shirt and shorts and was without food or water, she added.

“It’s very hot during the day and very cold at night,” Ms Law said.

“So during the day he will be very hot without drinking, and at night he will be very cold without suitable clothing.”

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Earlier, she told the Manchester Evening News that someone Mr Slater had met at the party drove him back to their flat in a rental car without him realizing how far away he was.

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

“A living nightmare”

Mr Slater's mother, Debbie Duncan, who traveled to the island and joined mountain rescuers and the local civil guard in the search for her son, described his disappearance as an “absolute living nightmare”.

Search teams refocused their efforts on Thursday in northern Tenerife, where the Teno Rural Park is located, after ruling out a potential lead in the south of the island, the BBC reported.

Separately, a Tenerife-based journalist said today was a “key day” in the search for Mr Slater.

Clio O'Flynn told Sky News: “If he has taken shelter, I hope he is waiting for help.”

She added: “The problem will be: 'Does he have a phone signal?' Will people be able to locate it? Can he hear their cries?

Ms O'Flynn said the search had been “very intense” with teams using all the resources at their disposal, including “mountain specialists, search dogs, drones and helicopters” and that they “were taking suggestions from his family into account, so it’s very coordinated.”

The area where it is believed to have disappeared is a “dry, arid part of the island” and, given its volcanic origins, has “gullies and gullies”, Ms O'Flynn said.

She warned that there were “no lakes, rivers or streams, so it would be very difficult for her to access fresh water.”

Temperatures have been around 26°C (79°F), she said, but warned that “if you're lost, 25°C is very hot.”

A spokesperson for the UK Foreign Office said: “We are supporting the family of a British man missing in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.”

Spain's Civil Guard told British media it was “doing everything possible” to find Mr Slater.