Jay Slater: Police call off search for missing teenager

The search for British teenager Jay Slater, who went missing in Tenerife, has been called off, police have said.

“The search operation is over. Yesterday was the last day of the search,” the Tenerife Civil Guard told the BBC.

The 19-year-old from Lancashire has been missing since June 17, after telling a friend he was lost in the mountains.

Police carried out a new search on Saturday with the help of dozens of rescuers near the village of Masca, in the Teno Rural National Park.

Since the teenager's disappearance almost two weeks ago, Spanish authorities have deployed helicopter crews, specially trained search dogs and drones.

It was hoped the operation would be a “massive search”, but fewer than 12 members of the public had arrived at the meeting point shortly before it began, BBC journalists at the scene noted.

The apprentice bricklayer was attending the NRG music festival on June 16 and his friends said they were in the tourist area of ​​Playa de las Americas when he was seen getting into a car with two British men he had met earlier in the night.

The following morning, June 17, he was tagged in a photo posted on Snapchat at 07:30 BST at an Airbnb in Masca, which was allegedly rented by the two men.

Investigators have spoken to the couple and they are “in no way involved in the case.”

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