Missing Jay Slater in Tenerife LIVE updates from search area after 'significant' new evidence found

Family and friends are today continuing the desperate search for missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife almost four weeks after his disappearance - after 'significant new intelligence' was passed to police.

Jay, 19, went missing on the Spanish island on the morning of June 17. The apprentice bricklayer was holidaying with friends Lucy Law, 18, and Brad Hargreaves, 19, and had been partying at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas the night before he vanished.

He left the club with two British men, one named Ayub Qassim, 31, known by the nickname 'Johnny Vegas', and an unnamed second man, to head to their Airbnb rental near the remote village of Masca on the north of the island.

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Jay left the Airbnb on the Monday morning and has not been seen since. Qassim, who was imprisoned nine years ago for orchestrating a scheme to inundate Wales with Class A drugs, said the teenager 'came to the Airbnb alive and left the Airbnb alive'.

Spanish police have deemed both him and the other unnamed man to be of no relevance to their missing person investigation. At around 8.30am on the morning of his disappearance, Jay called Lucy to say he was in the middle of nowhere and was trying to get home with no water and 1 per cent on his phone battery.

His last known location was in the Rural de Teno Park in the north of the Canary Island – which was about an 11-hour walk from his accommodation in Los Cristianos.

Searches have been ongoing on the island ever since. On Friday morning (July 12), Mark Williams-Thomas, a former Met Police cop in Tenerife, claimed he has received "a significant new piece of information" about the