Jay Slater missing in Tenerife LIVE updates as desperate search for teen continues

A desperate search is continuing to find a missing British teenager in Tenerife.

Jay Slater, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, is currently missing on the Spanish island after travelling there for a music festival with his friends. He last spoke to his pal Lucy at around 8am yesterday (June 17) before his phone died.

Jay had been to stay with people he had met on the island after a night out, Lucy said. But their apartment was 'in the middle of nowhere' and Jay's phone ran out of battery as he set off to walk back yesterday morning.

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The area where his phone was last tracked is in the Rural de Teno Park - or the National Park of Teno - which is an area popular with hikers. Before Jay's phone died, he told Lucy 'he didn't know where he was'.

The Foreign Office is supporting his family. Spanish police are aware of Jay's disappearance and a number of searches are now believed to be underway.

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Speaking to the M.E.N about Jay's disappearance, Lucy, who is in Tenerife said:

"He's gone on a night out, he's gone to a friend's house, someone that he has met on holiday. One of the people he has met has hired a car out of here, so he's driven them back to his apartment and Jay has gone there not realising how far away it is.

"He's ended up out in the middle of nowhere. Jay was obviously thinking he would be able to get home from there.

"But then in the morning he's set off walking, using his Maps on his phone and ended up in the middle of mountains with nothing around. He rang me at about 8 o'clock morning saying his phone was on 1 per cent, he said