Details emerge on Jay Slater's tragic death in Tenerife nature reserve

The search for missing teenager Jay Slater ended in heartbreak for his family when police found his 'lifeless body'.

For four weeks, Spanish authorities scoured the harsh landscape of Parque Rural de Teno nature reserve in Tenerife, near where the 19 year-old's phone last signalled. His mum Debbie Duncan, dad Warren Slater, and older brother Zak all joined the desperate search for their 'beautiful son', but tragically it was too late.

Efforts are now focused on determining the exact cause of his death, with a preliminary autopsy suggesting he succumbed to injuries sustain during a 'severe fall', reports the Mirror.

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The apprentice bricklayer, from Lancashire, disappeared while on his first overseas holiday with friends. He had been partying at the three-day NRG music festival before continuing his night out with two British men. In the early hours of June 17, he made his way to their Airbnb in the remote village of Masca.

Just before 9am on that tragic Monday, he left the holiday rental to walk back to his accommodation in the south of the island, a journey believed to take 11 hours after he missed the local bus. He told his friends, who he had been staying with, that he was thirsty and didn't know where he was, shortly before his phone battery died.

Mountain rescue teams, battling scorching temperatures, scoured dense vegetation and steep ravines until, on Monday, July 15, Spanish authorities confirmed the discovery of a young man's body in a ravine near a phone mast, alongside Jay's belongings. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition, but fingerprints confirmed it to be that of Jay Slater.

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