The chilling new theory in Jay Slater search an Army officer says could change everything

A former British Army officer believed Jay Slater's mobile thrown 'may have been thrown' prior to his disappearance.

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, went missing on the Spanish island on June 17. He was last seen leaving an Airbnb in the north of the island, close to the village of Masca, at around 8am that morning.

His phone last 'pinged' somewhere in the Parque Rural de Teno nature reserve, where Spanish police focused their search before they officially called off their search on Sunday. His loved ones have continued the hunt.

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A journalist covering Jay's case in Tenerife, who had spoken to Spanish police and sleuths on the ground investigating his disappearance, has now highlighted a new theory that could explain why the teen's phone last pinged in a dangerous mountainous area. After having a conversation with an ex-British Army officer, reporter Nick Pisa believes Jay's phone may have been thrown, the Mirror reports.

Pisa said the mobile's GPS location could only be possible "if the phone was thrown" into the terrain. He told GB News: "We're not obviously being kept up to speed, but [the former officer] did tell me that he thought where the ping came from was rather surprising because it was really steep to get to, and it was covered in undergrowth and cacti.

"He said to get there you'd have to need a machete. Or he suggested, someone had thrown the phone into that growth."

Pisa revealed that expert climbers are "still searching with the backing of Jay's family", despite the Civil Guard's active search ending. The reporter added