Specially trained dogs arrive to help Jay Slater search – police

Lina Portman1 week ago

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Legend, Dogs were brought from Madrid to help in the search

Author, Fiona Trott
Role, BBC News
Report of Tenerife
June 25, 2024

Specially trained dogs are arriving in Tenerife as the search for missing British teenager Jay Slater enters its ninth day.

Police confirmed to the BBC that new resources had been mobilized to help find the 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire.

The Guardia Civil, whose ground searches have focused on the area where his last mobile phone signal was located, said its efforts “are not reduced”.

Sniffer dogs, specially trained to cover large areas, are expected to arrive from Madrid later, they said.

Image source, BBC/Rachel Price

Legend, Santigo del Teide Mayor Emilio Navarro said all resources were being used to find Jay

The mayor of Santiago de Teide, where Mr Slater's father put up posters asking for information about his son's disappearance, expressed sympathy to the family.

Emilio Navarro said: “As a father, I understand. All our resources and all our means are used to find him. »

The apprentice mason lived in an apartment in the north of the Spanish island with friends he had met at the NRG festival he attended, but after missing the bus the next morning he called a friend to tell her that He was going to make the 10 hour walk back.

Image source, Handout/PA Media

Legend, Search for Jay 'has not been reduced', police say

Mr Slater also told him he had 1% battery on his phone, had “no idea” where he was and needed water.

On Monday, police cars were seen parked at the entrance to a mountain track in Teno Rural National Park, close to where Mr Slater's phone last rang.

Mr Slater's father sought help from the local community in Santiago del Teide, where the family went after an unconfirmed report of a possible local sighting.

Warren Slater said that someone “has to know something.”

“I just want him found. End,” he added.

What we know so far

June 16 – Mr Slater attends the NRG music festival with friends at the Papagayo nightclub in the tourist resort of Playa de las Americas, in the south of the island.
June 17 – Between 03:00 and 06:00 BST, he leaves to stay in an apartment in the north of the island with people he met during the night
At around 7.30am, Mr Slater posted a photo on Snapchat from the gate of the property where he spent the night, labeled as being in Teno Rural Park.
At 8:30 a.m., he called his friend Lucy Law to tell her that he had missed his bus, that he had cut his leg, that he was “lost in the mountains”, that he needed water and that it was about to run out of battery.
He is missing
June 18 – As police and mountain rescue teams search for him, Mr Slater's family flies to the Spanish island
June 20 – The research returns to the Teno Rural Park after a brief stay in Playa de las Americas. Rescuers are combing bushes, overgrown land, hillsides and rivers around the village of Masca.
June 22 – Mr Slater's mother makes a direct appeal to her missing son on the sixth day of the hunt, saying: 'We just need you at home.'
June 23 – Search teams are limiting their efforts to small buildings near where Mr. Slater's phone last rang.
June 24 – The search for Mr. Slater enters an eighth day. Police cars are parked at the entrance to a mountain track near where the 19-year-old's cellphone was last found.