"Love you always brother...": Jay Slater's friend who he partied with in Tenerife pays tribute after body found in search

Jay Slater's friend who he partied with in Tenerife has paid an emotional tribute to him after a body was tragically uncovered in a search for the teenager.

On Monday (July 15), exactly four weeks since the teenager disappeared, Spanish police said human remains had been found in the Masca area close to where the 19-year-old vanished. The Civil Guard said 'everything is pointing to the body being that' of Jay.

They believe he 'may have suffered an accident or fall in the area'. The body has not yet been formally identified.

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Jay's close friend Brad Hargreaves, who he travelled to Tenerife with on his first holiday without his parents, has posted an emotional tribute on Instagram after the tragic news.

He penned: "No words. Nothing be the same without you Rest easy brother love you always." He also posted a public story with another picture of the two of them along with broken heart emojis.

Jay's disappearance, which later sparked conspiracy theories online from trolls, resulted in a major search and rescue mission that lasted almost two weeks.

Spanish police scoured the mountainous landscape around the Rural de Teno national park in Masca, near to where he vanished on June 17.

In the wake of the discovery, British overseas missing persons charity LBT Global has issued a statement. The charity said it is supporting Jay's devastated family and that the teenager's possessions and clothes were 'found with the body'.

In full, the statement from LBT Global said: "LBT Global is saddened to announce that a body found in Tenerife does look to be that of Jay Slater. It is understood the body was found close to the site of his mobile