COPS fear Jay Slater may have accidentally fallen to his death in a remote area of Tenerife.
A body was tragically found on Monday in the hunt for the missing British teenager after a gruelling four-week search.
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Apprentice bricklayer Jay vanished on the morning of June 17 after going to a rave the night before with friends – sparking a huge effort to find the Lancashire teen.
Spanish cops axed the official search after two weeks – but today announced a body has been found in the area Jay was last known to be, Masca.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard said: “Initial inquiries are pointing to him having suffered an accident/fall in the area where he was found.”
They said the “lifeless body of the young man” was found “after 29 constant days of searching”.
“The discovery has been possible thanks to the tireless and discreet search carried out by the Civil Guard over these 29 days,” they added.
“Everything is pointing to the body being that of the young British man who disappeared on June 17, pending full identification.”
Former investigator Mark Williams-Thomas – who has been working on the case for weeks – said: “Human remains found and all indications are that it is Jay Slater.
“The first investigations reveal that he could have suffered an accident fall in the inaccessible area.”
Jay’s distraught family have been updated and a formal investigation by police is set to follow.
The teenager travelled to the unforgiving mountainous area in the early hours of June 17 with two men after a night of partying.
He then left in the morning, but after learning he’d missed the bus started trying to do the 11-hour trek back to his own accommodation.
One of the men – convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim – says Jay left the house alive.
Jay made a final frantic call to friend Lucy Law to say he was lost, had one per cent phone battery, and needed water.
In an earlier call to friend Brad, his feet could be heart slipping on the rocks before.
Former investigator Mark Williams-Thomas – who has been working on the case for weeks – claims to have spoke to Qassim and was told the teen woke up asking to leave the home as he was hungry.
Qassim, who rented out the holiday let, says Jay wanted to go home so he could “get a scran”, and was planning on catching a bus.
Mark says that Qassim told him “no bus is coming”, and offered to drive him after taking a nap, but the teen left anyway.
It has since been claimed by Mark that Jay left in a panic and was “scared” to return to the Airbnb.
Tenerife is known as a dangerous place after dark with the holiday hotspot being stuck in a bitter turf war between British drug gangs and the feared Italian mafia.
Despite this, there is no suggestion that Jay was linked to drugs with cops finding no link to criminality in the case.
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