Missing Jay Slater in Tenerife LIVE updates as search hits tragic landmark

The desperate search for missing teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife is ongoing today.

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared on the Spanish island on the morning of June 17. Today the search hit a tragic landmark, with it now three weeks to the day since he was last seen. The desperate search to find him today enters its fourth week.

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. Jay left the Airbnb on the Monday morning.

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At around 8.30am, he called Lucy to say he was in the middle of nowhere, 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.

Mr Qassim, who was imprisoned nine years ago for orchestrating a scheme to inundate Wales with Class A drugs, said Jay 'came to the Airbnb alive and left the Airbnb alive'. Spanish police have deemed both men to be of no relevance to their missing person investigation.

On Sunday, former Metropolitan Police cop Mark Williams-Thomas said the disappearance in Tenerife has links to an 'established criminal network'. Read what he said in full here. Earlier this week, Williams-Thomas, who has been out in Tenerife, said the teen