The search for missing Jay Slater enters the ninth day

The search for missing Jay Slater has entered its ninth day since he was last heard from in Tenerife.

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared after trying to return to his accommodation after the NRG festival, which took place on June 16.

The apprentice bricklayer was staying in an apartment in the north of the Spanish island with friends he met on the show, but after missing the bus in the morning, he called a friend to tell him he was going on a 10-hour walk. back.

Mr Slater also said he had 1% battery on his phone, he “didn’t know” where he was and needed water.

On Monday, a police car was seen parked at the entrance to a mountain track in the Rural de Teno National Park, close to where Mr Slater’s last phone call was made.

Specialist dog teams have also been searching for him, with most of the search focused on the area near the national park in north-west Tenerife.

Mr. Slater’s father has asked for help from the local community in Santiago del Teide, where the family went after unconfirmed reports of local sightings.

Warren Slater says someone “must know something”.

“I just want him to be found. The end,” he added.

• June 16 – Mr. Slater attended the NRG music festival with friends at the Papagayo nightclub in the tourist resort of Playa de las Americas in the south of the island
• June 17 – Between 03:00 and 06:00 BST, he stayed in an apartment in the north of the island with people he met that night.
• Around 07:30, Mr. Slater posted a picture on Snapchat of the door of the house where he spent the night, tagged as being in the Rural de Teno park.
• At 08:30, she called her friend, Lucy Law, to tell her that she had been trying to get back to her accommodation after missing the bus.
• On the phone, he said he “cut his leg” on a cactus and “didn’t know where he was”
• Ms Law said her friend told her she was “lost in the mountains, she doesn’t know her surroundings, she needs a drink and a 1% live phone”
• Mr Slater’s phone ran out of battery shortly after his last known location in the Rural de Teno park and at 09:04 he was reported missing.
• June 18 – After the friends spent the previous day searching in vain, the local police and the mountain rescue team searched the Rural de Teno park for Mr. Slater. His family flew to Tenerife to join the search
• June 19 – The search was temporarily moved to the Los Cristianos area in the south of the island due to potential leads, but this was quickly discounted and the search returned to the north
• June 20 – The search returns to the Rural de Teno park, around the village of Masca. Emergency workers combed the bush, overgrown terrain, hillsides and rivers but failed to find the missing youth
• June 21 – Spanish police turn down offers of support from Lancashire Constabulary as manhunt continues
• Search and rescue personnel are carefully searching for palm trees lining the river below the slope near the rental property.
• The owner of the property told reporters he saw Mr Slater walking down the road past the property, but did not see him again after that – describing the situation as worrying.
• June 22 – Mr Slater’s mother issued a direct plea to her son who went missing on the sixth day of the hunt, saying: “We just need you to come home”
• Firefighters were seen carrying out the majority of the search, wearing helmets to tackle Tenerife’s dangerous mountain terrain
• June 23 – The search team reduced their efforts in the small building near where Mr. Slater’s last call was pinged
• Officers from the Guardia Civil in the Canary Islands can be seen surrounding two structures at the bottom of a ravine in the Rural de Teno Park.
• June 24 – The search for Mr. Slater enters its eighth day. A police car was seen parked at the entrance to the mountain track near the mobile phone the 19-year-old was last traced to.