Moment helicopter swoops in to recover body of a man believed to be missing teenager Jay Slater

Dramatic footage has revealed the moment a helicopter moved in to recover the body of a man believed to be missing teenager Jay Slater.

Police have released new video footage showing the final moments of the agonising four-week search for the missing 19-year-old in mountains near the Tenerife village of Masca, close to where he vanished 29 days ago.

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.

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

Newly released video footage appears to show mountain rescue experts moving through difficult terrain on foot, scaling mountains with specialist equipment and picking their way through thick undergrowth.

In a subsequent sequence a helicopter was filmed in the air a few feet from the ground. A man hanging out of the helicopter was then seen making hand signals and appeared to be attached to another person.

A Civil Guard spokesman said of the footage: “These are images from this morning relating to the search and discovery near Masca, carried out from the ground by officers of the Civil Guard Mountain Rescue Intervention team.”

It emerged on Monday that human remains, thought to belong to Jay, had been found in Masca, close to where the teenager went missing four weeks ago.

The helicopter is believed to belong to a regional government emergency and rescue group. Officials