The search for Jay Slater shifts dramatically away from the park where he disappeared when Snapchat 1 hour before his last phone call is revealed

The MAMMOTH search for missing British teenager Jay Slater has been moved to the other side of Tenerife.

Mountain rescue has left the hills where Jay, 19, went missing on Monday and is now searching the south of the island.

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Police, firefighters, sniffer dogs, drones and helicopters concentrated their efforts near the village of Masca, in northwest Tenerife.

At noon today the police ordered the search to be transferred to the tourist resorts Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas, close to where the teenager was staying.

It turns out that Jay’s last Snapchat post, sent just an hour before his latest news, has been revealed.

The teenager, from Lancashire, shared a snap of his hand holding a cigarette at the accommodation he went to on Sunday with two men at around 7.30am.

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The apprentice bricklayer flew to Tenerife with friends Lucy Mae and Brad for the New Rave Generation (NRG) 2024 festival, which ended on Sunday.

He went out that night with two other men he had just met to go to their apartment, Manchester Evening News reports.

Jay’s last known location was Teno Rural Park in the northwest of the island – a popular hiking spot among tourists – at around 8am on Monday.

His friend Lucy today said Jay’s disappearance was “suspicious” and insisted “something strange is going on”.

A Civil Guard spokesperson said today at around 12:30 pm local time: “The search operation has moved to the south of the island.

“The search areas are Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas.”

The spokesperson did not elaborate on the reason for the change, but said: “Obviously this is due to information that was received as the investigation progressed.

“As things stand, searches in the mountainous area near Masca in the north have been halted.”

Police said this morning they were keeping an open mind about Jay’s disappearance on the third day of a massive search for the teenager.

A different Snapchat post, sent by Jay on the Sunday night before his disappearance, showed the teen smiling with friends.

It was filmed at around 8:30 pm in the Arona area, in Santa de Cruz, in the south of the island, where the festival took place.

After calling Lucy at 8am on Monday, a missing persons report was made around 9am and the search began.

Jay’s mother, Debbie Duncan, and older brother, Zak, flew in on Tuesday to join the efforts.

FAMILY PAIN

Debbie’s partner Andy Watson said Lancashire live as police urged the family to leave for the island as soon as possible in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

He said: “It was about 2.30am.

“The police said ‘the best thing you can do is go there’, we knew it was bad. This was his first holiday alone.”

An injured Debbie flew out of Manchester Airport at 7am that morning.

Andy, 63, also said that “every mother who has a child came to help”, with the massive search.

Debbie revealed on Tuesday how she was bombarded with horrific prank calls during the search, from trolls who claimed to have kidnapped Jay.

She told how Brits with a “northern accent” were calling her from blocked numbers, claiming they had her son captive and were holding him because he owed them money.

Debbie said: “I just don’t know why people would want to do things like that. I have received a lot of prank calls.

“People calling me and saying they got Jay because he owes them money.”

MAMMOTH SEARCH OPERATION

The massive search entered its third day on Wednesday near the village of Masca in the northwest of the island near Jay’s last known location. Manchester Evening News reports.

The “Jay Slater Missing” Facebook group, which now has nearly 140,000 members, said officers were stopping drivers in the area to show Jay’s photo on Wednesday morning.

Fiona Duncan, possibly Jay’s maternal aunt, announced on the page that she would travel to help Jay’s uncle and promised to meet him.

She wrote: “Me, Jay’s uncle and sister-in-law went out today at 3pm to look for Jay.

“I just want to thank everyone for the kind words and support. We will find him.”

Debbie said Online Mail that she was too distraught to go up into the mountains and help with the search, but would wait for news from Los Cristianos in the south.

The frantic mum said: “We haven’t had any real updates but I’m waiting to hear from the British consulate.

“There was talk that a helicopter would come by here today, but I can’t bear to go up there, I’m going to stay here in Los Cristianos and wait for news.

“His friends and Lucy are there helping and I have more family coming over today.

“We all just want him to be found safe and sound as soon as possible.”

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