Jay Slater search: Mystery of promoter, 24, who also vanished in Tenerife 20 years ago

The mystery of missing Jay Slater has chilling echoes of the case 20 years earlier of a man who went missing on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

Apprentice bricklayer Jay, 19, disappeared on June 17 in the remote Rural de Teno area of Tenerife while holidaying for a three-day music festival with friends. The teen left his pals to travel to a quiet Airbnb with two other partygoers in the early hours of the Monday and attempted to walk back to his accommodation that morning.

Jay began the treacherous 11-hour trek on foot and called a friend to tell her that his phone was on one percent battery, he was thirsty and had cut his leg on a cactus.

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An official search has now been called off, but missing Jay's family have been told by Spanish cops they can employ their own search teams.

Twenty years before Jay went missing in Tenerife, a young Brit, also from Lancashire, vanished on the island, reports The Mirror.

Promoter Kevin Ainley, 24, was from Fleetwood, Lancashire, and moved to the tourist area of Playa de las Americas three months before disappearing on June 14, 2004.

He was last sighted walking in the direction of a bar called the Sportsman handing out flyers.

His passport and belongings were found in his apartment. Spanish police launched an investigation which Lancashire Police later reviewed, but Kevin was never found. In a 2016 appeal, his sister Gemma Brooke said the family was "desperate for answers". She said: "It is no exaggeration to say we have been put through 12 years of hell. Somebody must know something."

She added: "I just hope that if someone does know something they can find it in their hearts to come forward and help put us out of our misery." Then on June 13 this year, just a few days