Missing Jay Slater in Tenerife LIVE updates as TikTok detective gives verdict on ravine search

The desperate search for missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife is into its fourth week.

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared on the Spanish island on the morning of June 17. On Monday, the search hit a tragic landmark, passing three weeks to the day since he was last seen.

Jay 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. 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. Spanish police focused their two-week search on ravines and mountainous terrains in the Rural de Teno Park, with mountain rescuers assisting the search.

On June 30, they called off