Spanish police searching for teenager say they found ANOTHER missing Briton during search

Lina Portman2 weeks ago

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Spanish police searching for Jay Slater have found another missing Briton during their rescue operation, which has just entered its ninth day.

The teenager flew from Lancashire to the Canary Islands for a music festival, but disappeared after going to the house of people he had met on a night out on June 16.

During his last call to his friend Lucy Law at 8 a.m. local time last Monday, the 19-year-old said his phone had only one percent battery, he was thirsty and that he didn't know where he was.

His last location indicated that he was in the Teno Rural Park, an area popular with hikers. He has not been seen since.

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During the search for the teenager, Tenerife police revealed they managed to find a 51-year-old Scottish hiker, whose identity has not yet been revealed, who had gotten lost in the same national park.

Police said in a social media post: “Residents observed how the said hiker entered very early in an area of difficult access, unsuitable for travel and after several hours without returning to the starting point, they alerted the officers who were there at the time. the area in search of the missing young man, Jay Slater.

“Tired and disoriented, he was located by officers and rescue workers who helped him get out of the ravine.”

Today marks the ninth day of searching for the teenager, with teams focusing on three different areas: Masca Gorge, La Vica and Las Portelas, as well as the surrounding Masca region.

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Although Slater has not yet been found, his family yesterday released CCTV footage showing a “possible sighting” of the 19-year-old sitting on a bench more than three miles from where he went missing.

The image shows a man walking past a village church around 6pm on Monday – 10 hours after friends were said to have last heard from him.

His family says the images could have looked like Slater.

However, the Guardia Civil has not confirmed whether the image is under investigation.

His mother Debbie Duncan also said a witness told police she saw Slater sitting on a bench with two men, just over three miles from the village of Masca.

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Yesterday a former Metropolitan Police chief inspector said he would treat Slater's disappearance as a murder investigation, saying things “are not looking good” for the 19-year-old.

Steve Gaskin, who held his job at the Met for 25 years, said that when a missing person report came to the police he would decide whether to treat it as either a missing person investigation or a murder case .

“If we treat this as murder from the outset, if it turns out it's not, then nothing is lost, we only have a few hours – people call it hour of 'gold, but in reality it's the 24 golden hours – to gather forensic evidence. before it’s too late,” he told the Daily Mirror.

“I’d like to know what he ate for breakfast.” Why did a 19 year old mason disappear, what was he doing there, I would like to know everything about him, who was the last person to see him, also check his background, I would talk to the police at UK, does he have a criminal record, here or in Spain, what do we know about him.

“The longer this goes on, the more likely you are to suspect a criminal element. It doesn't look good after that amount of time.”