Jay Slater search: Father describes ‘living hell’ as new footage emerges

Local mayor Emilio Jose Navarro said police had interviewed several people who may have seen him, including some who said they thought they had spotted him on the coast watching Euro 2024 football matches.

British national Tom Beckett, who is familiar with the area where Slater last used his phone and was in Santiago del Teide on Tuesday, said he believed the teenager may not have reached the town.

“Had he been on the road, he would have been seen by numerous tourists. It’s a very narrow road so they wouldn’t have missed him, they would have seen him,” Mr Beckett told Reuters.

Spanish police are examining CCTV footage from a local town on the island of Tenerife near where British teenager Jay Slater disappeared, its mayor said on Tuesday.

Warren Slater, the teenager’s father, on Monday shared a blurry still picture from a security camera in the town of Santiago del Teide of a person that could be his son in the hope it would help with the search, British media reported.

“We know the police are investigating (the CCTV images). They have asked for the town hall’s security cameras and they are also working with the company that handles those cameras,” mayor Emilio Jose Navarro told Reuters.

The image shared by the family to British media outlets shows a person walking through town, but it is impossible to make out a face.

After attending the New Generation Rave music festival on Sunday evening, he travelled to a remote Airbnb with two men he had met at the event.

Jay Slater’s father has said he feels police have left him in the dark as the search for his son continues.

Speaking to reporters, Warren Slater was recorded saying: “Nobody’s told us. The mountain police [have been] brilliant… but I don’t know how the other police [force] works.

“They could be doing everything but if they are doing [something], they’re not telling us what they’re doing, if you understand what I’m saying.”

Specialist sniffer dogs have been drafted in from the Spanish capital Madrid to help in the hunt for British teenager Jay Slater.

A statement from Tenerife police said that several Canine Guides of the Civil Guard were dispatched from Madrid with dogs “specialised in the search for people on large areas of land”.

It comes as the search for the 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire enters its second week.

Tucked into the mountainside, an elderly Spanish couple showed the view from their back terrace which overlooks a dramatic ravine, Holly Evans reports live from the scene in Masca, Tenerife.

Four police officers can be seen trawling through the shrubbery with a sniffer dog, the only signs of the search ongoing in this area.

When asked if they thought the police search was dwindling, the couple said they believed it was still in full force, and that a helicopter and sniffer dogs had been spotted searching the area.

The house, which is located just north of Masca and deep in the mountains off a rural path, is their holiday home and they arrived four days to see the police search taking place.

Andrew Knight, known on YouTube as the Knightrider, told The Independent of the climate in Tenerife: “It’s rugged mountainsides, loose rocks that fall away underfoot, cactuses everywhere. It’s a disorienting landscape and also has extreme weather changes.”

Jay Slater’s last known movements have been mapped as the desperate search for the missing teenager entered its second week in Tenerife.

Holly Evans reports live from the scene in Masca, Tenerife:

The area is a difficult terrain to navigate, small paths wind off the main road into the mountains but they are narrow and dramatic drops open up unexpectedly on either side, she writes.

Once leaving the main road, the bushes are coarse and there are brambles and cacti everywhere, which is hampering the efforts of search teams and rescue workers.

A former police chief constable has hit out at armchair detectives following a social media frenzy surrounding missing British teenager Jay Slater.