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Jay Slater – latest: Locals report teen ‘watching Euro 2024’ after last contact
Spanish police have spoken to several people who said they may have seen Jay Slater watching Euro 2024 matches after his last contact with friends, a local mayor has said.
Emilio Jose Navarro, mayor of the town of Santiago del Teide, said officers have interviewed a number of people who believe they saw the 19-year-old.
Police are examining grainy CCTV footage from the town, which is around three-and-a-half miles from the mountainous Rural de Teno park – the apprentice bricklacker’s last known location – to determine whether it is a possible sighting.
The image, shared by the family to media outlets, shows a person walking through town and was captured around 10 hours after Jay’s phone last pinged.
“We know the police are investigating (the CCTV images). They have asked for the town hall’s security cameras and they are also working with the company that handles those cameras,” Mr Navarro said.
Police examining possible CCTV sighting, mayor says
Spanish police are examining CCTV footage from a Tenerife town near where Jay Slater disappeared, its mayor said on Tuesday.
Warren Slater, the teenager’s father, on Monday shared a blurry still picture from a security camera in the town of Santiago del Teide of a person that could be his son in the hope it would help with the search, British media reported.
“We know the police are investigating (the CCTV images). They have asked for the town hall’s security cameras and they are also working with the company that handles those cameras,” the town’s mayor Emilio Jose Navarro said.
The grainy CCTV image shows a person walking through the town, but it is impossible to make out a face.
Crucially, it was taken at around 6pm last Monday, around 10 hours after the last known ping from Jay’s phone, which came from the Rural de Teno park around three-and-a-half miles away.
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 22:47
Jay Slater’s mum ‘has barely slept’ as search for missing teen continues.
The mother of Jay Slater says she has barely slept in the time since her son disappeared on Tenerife more than a week ago.
Debbie Duncan flew out to the Spanish island
Speaking to the MailOnline on Tuesday, she said: “It’s been a week now and it’s been awful. I’ve barely slept and I’m at my wits’ end.
“The Spanish police are doing a good job and we are getting updated from the consulate so we just put our faith in them.”
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 22:05
The harsh conditions in Tenerife facing missing Jay Slater at the time of his disappearance
A travel blogger living in Tenerife has described the treacherous conditions facing Jay Slater as he joins the search for the missing teenager.
Andrew Knight, known on YouTube as the Knightrider, told The Independent of the climate in Tenerife: “It’s rugged mountainsides, loose rocks that fall away underfoot, cactuses everywhere. It’s a disorienting landscape and also has extreme weather changes.
“At night the temperature drops to around 12 degrees Celsius, but with the wind chill and the thin air at altitude, it feels around 10 degrees.
“In the sunshine, it can go up to 28 degrees. It also can be quite damp, it rained a little when I was there. It has its own microclimate that changes by the hour.”
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 21:32
Jay Slater: Everything we know about the Briton missing in Tenerife
Worried relatives and friends are still searching for a sighting of British teenager Jay Slater after he vanished on the island of Tenerife.
He had gone to stay with two people he had met at the NRG music festival and, having missed the last bus back, embarked on what would have been an 11 hour walk.
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 21:00
Jay Slater’s last known movements in Tenerife
Jay Slater’s last known movements have been mapped as the desperate search for the missing teenager entered its second week in Tenerife.
A major search operation was launched after the 19-year-old, from the Lancashire town of Oswaldtwistle, vanished on the Spanish island last Monday.
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 20:33
Jay Slater search teams fly in specialist sniffer dogs to join hunt
Specialist sniffer dogs have been flown in from Madrid to join the search for Jay Slater, as authorities continue to scour for details that may shed light on his disappearance.
Now in its second week, only a small search team of police officers and rescue workers could be seen in the mountainous area near the village of Masca, a destination popular with experienced hikers.
Read the latest on the search from The Independent’s Holly Evans, who is in Tenerife:
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 20:00
Latest pictures of search operation
More images have emerged of search efforts around the village of Masca as Spanish authorities continue to look for missing Jay Slater.
Guardia Civil officers were seen using dogs to search in the Masca ravine on Tuesday.
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 19:05
My daughter went missing like Jay Slater – then I was targeted
Like Debbie Duncan, who’s become the target of online hate following her son’s disappearance in Tenerife, we found ourselves the subject of unwanted scrutiny when our daughter vanished, aged 12.
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 18:31
Jay Slater’s disappearance has exposed the horrifying cruelty of social media
Trolls mocking missing Jay Slater, Baby Reindeer’s real-life Martha tracked down and hounded online, armchair sleuths endlessly theorising about Nicola Bulley’s disappearance – Helen Coffey asks, when did we collectively lose our empathy?
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 18:04
Timeline: The search for missing teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife
The search for Jay Slater in Tenerife is continuing over a week after he was last heard from on the Spanish island.
The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus in the north of island.
Here are the key updates so far from the search for the 19-year-old:
Tom Barnes25 June 2024 17:32