TENERIFE police officers hunting Jay Slater rescued a different Brit during their search.
Crews searching a deserted park near where the teenager was last seen found a Scottish walker who had become lost in the mountainous terrain.
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The unidentified 51-year-old hiker was found by police in Asomada Canyon on Friday as they searched for Jay.
Police said the hiker entered a “difficult to access” area that is not “suitable for travel.”
After he failed to return to his starting point after several hours, residents alerted teams who were already searching the area for 19-year-old Jay.
The police added: “Tired and disoriented, he was located by agents and the rescue team who helped him get out of the ravine.”
Drones, sniffer dogs and helicopters have been scouring Teno National Rural Park and its surrounding area in northern Tenerife since Jay disappeared more than a week ago.
Much of the hunting was concentrated in the unforgiving 2,000-foot Masca ravine.
That’s where his phone last signaled a nearby cell tower at 8:50 a.m. on June 17.
Apprentice bricklayer Jay, from Lancashire, headed to Masca with two Brits at the end of a three-day rave he flew to Tenerife to attend.
Jay stayed in the rented Airbnb for a few hours before trying to return to his vacation accommodation.
He had made one last frantic call to friend Lucy Law last Monday morning.
Jay told his friend that he was lost in the middle of nowhere, with no water and that he only had 1% battery on his phone.
Yesterday, police expanded their search to a “huge” barren landscape north of where he was last seen.
Civil Guard officials confirmed that forest trails and tracks north of the gorge in Teno Rural Park were also being examined as the ongoing search expanded to other areas.
It comes after Jay’s distraught father broke down in tears as he told The Sun how his family is going through “hell”.
Warren, 55, said: “I just want him to be found. I just want my son back, the end.
“What else is there, it’s been a week, a week of nothing. So someone somewhere must have discovered something. Somebody.
“It’s hell, unless you’re going through it, you can’t explain it.
“Please, please, please, if anyone knows anything, come and help us.
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“I don’t know if anything happened to Jay. One minute he was here, the next minute he was gone.
“I can’t believe he’s still on that mountain. The police made every effort to find him. It is dark and arid.
“The authorities did everything they could in the search, everyone is up there looking for him.”
Warren has been putting up missing persons posters in the village of Santiago del Teide.
The tearful father also shared a grainy CCTV image which he believes could be of his son.
It shows a mysterious figure passing by a church in Santiago del Teide last Monday at around 6pm – hours after Jay was reported missing.
The village is about 7 km from the village of Masca, where Jay disappeared a week ago.
Police have yet to confirm whether it’s a possible sighting – but Jay’s family is praying it is.
Jay’s mother said a man came forward to say he saw someone matching her son’s description sitting on a bench with two men in the same area.
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Timeline of Jay Slater’s Disappearance
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
SUNDAY, JUNE 16 – MONDAY, 17
Jay goes to a rave at the NRG 2024 music festival in Tenerife, near Arona in the south of the island
8:35pm – Jay posts a smiling Snapchat video of him laughing with friends
He leaves the rave with two men he met that day and is taken back to his accommodations on the other side of the island.
MONDAY 17
7:30 am – Jay posts a Snapchat of a hand holding a cigarette in the area where the accommodation was located – near the Teno rural park, in the north of the island
8:30 am – Jay calls his friend Lucy Law and says he missed a bus, still had one percent battery left on his phone and got stuck in the “middle of nowhere”
9am – A missing persons report is filed and the search for Jay begins
TUESDAY 18
2am – The police knock on the door of Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan’s house and tell her to catch the first flight to Tenerife
7am – She leaves Manchester airport alongside her son Zak to help with the search
Debbie receives a Snapchat message saying “Kiss your boy goodbye, you’ll never see him again, he owes me a lot of money.”
WEDNESDAY 19
12:30 pm – Police briefly move the search to the south of the island after a false sighting
Cops search his hotel room for clues as his mother says “there was nothing untoward there”
Debbie gives a moving interview where she shares her fear that he was “taken” and says “I just want my baby back”
THURSDAY 20
Police begin fourth day of massive search for Jay
FRIDAY THE 21ST
Lancashire Police offer to help with the search, but Tenerife authorities say they are “pleased to have the resources they need”
The search turns to a 22,000-foot ravine in Masca – part of an area nicknamed the “badlands” by locals
SATURDAY 22
Day six of the search begins with sniffer dogs, police, mountain rescue and firefighters again heading to the hills of northern Tenerife
Possible new sighting of Jay puts him near a church with two men at 6pm on Monday – although not confirmed by police
Jay’s father Warren and brother Zak visit the search site in Tenerife
SUNDAY 23
Officers focus their search on small outbuildings in Teno Park, near where Jay’s phone last rang.
Jay’s mom Debbie says trolls are comparing her to Karen Matthews
GoFundMe set up by Jay’s friend Lucy surpasses £30,000 after just three days
Exclusive Sun footage shows Jay appearing to fall and trip at a rave before disappearing
MONDAY 24
Search for Jay enters eighth day
Police expand search area north to parts of Buenavista del Norte
Jay’s dad says his family is in ‘hell’
This story originally appeared on The-sun.com read the full story
