LONDON — Human stays have been discovered within the seek for a British teen who went lacking nearly a month in the past on the island of Tenerife, Spanish police mentioned Monday.
It’s prone to be the physique of Jay Slater, although formal identification has not been made, police mentioned.
“The Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group of the Civil Guard has situated the lifeless physique of a younger man within the Masca space after 29 days of fixed search,” in accordance with the assertion. “All indications point out that it may very well be the younger British man who has been lacking since final June 17.”
LBT World, a charity that supported Slater’s household, mentioned the physique was discovered with Slater’s clothes and possessions close to the final location of his cell phone.
Slater, 19, was final seen as he got down to stroll from Masca, a village within the northwest of the Canary Island, to the place he had been staying in Los Cristianos within the south. It was a visit that might have taken about 11 hours on foot over rugged terrain.
Slater frantically referred to as his good friend, Lucy Legislation, that morning and mentioned he was “misplaced within the mountains, he wasn’t conscious of his environment, he desperately wanted a drink and his cellphone was on 1%,” she mentioned.
Police mentioned the physique was present in a really distant space and that an post-mortem shall be carried out “to verify that the dying was unintended.”
Slater, an apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle in northwest England, had attended a music pageant the day earlier than his disappearance.
