Fresh hope for missing Jay Slater as new operation begins in Tenerife

The painstaking search to find a missing Lancashire teenager in Tenerife has reached another heartbreaking milestone. Jay Slater vanished on the Canary Island on Monday, June 17.

He reportedly called his friend Lucy Law from the Rural Parc de Teno, in north-west Tenerife, at 8.30am to say he was lost and had one per cent phone battery. Jay had been partying with friends the night before at an NRG Festival rave at the Papagayo club, in Playa de las Americas, more than 30km away.

He was invited back to a remote Airbnb by two men early that morning, before leaving the property on foot. Emergency services scoured the Rural Parc de Teno in an attempt to find Jay until June 30, when the official search was called off.

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Members of his family have remained on the island ever since, while volunteers have supported them in searching the Rural Parc de Teno, and the Guardia Civil confirmed last week a number of lines of inquiry remained ongoing. Today (July 15) sparks the beginning of a new chapter in the search for the 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire.

Jay's mum, Debbie Duncan, revealed at the weekend that some of the funds raised on the GoFundMe page to support the family are being used to fly a specialist search team over to Tenerife from the Netherlands. Five members of Signi Zoekhonden jetted off yesterday, alongside four dogs, with a sixth expected to fly over today.

They are expected to search the Teno park over the next five-and-a-half days. Speaking to the BBC from Brussels airport, in Belgium, as they prepared to set off, volunteer Marieke Krans said: "We are very