A “massive search” for missing British teenager Jay Slater will get under way in Tenerife today, almost two weeks after the apprentice bricklayer went missing.
The Civil Guard said they would step up their search for the 19-year-old after appealing for volunteer associations, such as firefighters, and individual volunteers with experience in navigating difficult terrain to help them.
Police and volunteers will begin their search at 9am in the village of Masca, near to Mr Slater’s last-known location, and attempt to retrace his last-known steps.
Police chief Angel Sanz Coronado said in a statement the search will start at the Mirador de la Cruz de Hilda, a lookout point, and will go “in a logical and orderly way along the many paths and ravines”.
Sky’s North of England correspondent Shingi Mararike in Tenerife said the search “is perhaps a final push from the Civil Guard to make some kind of headway”.
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Mr Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared after trying to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus on Monday last week.
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He was last pictured at Papayago, the nightclub hosting the end of the New Rave Generation festival, late on 16 June.
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After the event ended, he jumped in a car with two men, travelling to a small Airbnb in Masca, where a local cafe owner told Sky News he tried to catch a bus back to Los Cristianos, where he was staying.
Ofelia Medina Hernandez said she saw him at 8am on 17 June, and added: “He asked twice what time the bus came.
“He came back and he asked me again, and I told him again, at 10 o’clock. Later I got in my car, and I saw him, he was walking quickly, but I didn’t see him again after that.”
She said he was walking in the wrong direction.
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Last phone call
It comes after one of Mr Slater’s friends told ITV’s This Morning about his last video call with the 19-year-old.
Brad said he saw the missing teenager’s feet slide on rocks during a call at around 8.30am, saying that is how he knew Mr Slater was not on a road.
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He then said Mr Slater went down a “little drop” in one of his last video calls, and added: “He said, ‘look where I am’.
“He didn’t seem concerned on the phone until we knew how far away he were. I said, ‘put your location on’. He said: ’15-minute drive, 14-hour walk’.
“I don’t know if it’s accurate or not so I said to him: ‘It’s only a 15-minute drive, get a taxi’.”
Search teams coordinated by the Civil Guard have since mounted a huge manhunt using helicopters, drones and search dogs to scour mountainous areas of the island, but are yet to find the teenager.
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