LONDON — Human remains have been found in the search for a British teenager who disappeared almost a month ago on the island of Tenerife, Spanish police said on Monday.
It is likely the body of Jay Slater, although no formal identification has been made, police said.
“The Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group of the Civil Guard has located the lifeless body of a young man in the Masca area after 29 days of constant searching,” according to the statement. “All indications indicate that it could be the young British man who has been missing since June 17.”
LBT Global, a charity that supported Slater’s family, said the body was found with Slater’s clothes and belongings near the last location of his mobile phone.
Slater, 19, was last seen walking from Masca, a town in the northwest of the Canary Island, to where he was staying in Los Cristianos, in the south. It was a trip that would have taken about 11 hours on foot over rugged terrain.
Slater frantically called his friend, Lucy Law, that morning and told her he was “lost in the mountains, not aware of his surroundings, desperately in need of a drink and his phone was on 1%,” she said.
Police said the body was found in a very remote area and that an autopsy will be performed “to confirm that the death was accidental.”
Slater, an apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle in northwest England, had attended a music festival the day before he disappeared.
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