Missing Jay Slater seen on video at packed Tenerife rave just hours before he vanished as search enters fourth night
20 June 2024, 18:50 | Updated: 21 June 2024, 08:53
Missing Brit teen Jay Slater was seen on video at a rave in Tenerife just hours before his disappearance.
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Jay Slater, 19, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, travelled to the Canary Islands for a weekend music festival with two friends when he disappeared late on Sunday evening.
The teenager was attending the 'New Rave Generation' (NRG) festival, but chose to stay behind with a group of strangers he had met instead of returning to where he was staying with friends.
Fresh footage of Jay at the festival surfaced on social media on Thursday, showing him walking across a packed dance floor with sunglasses on his head.
It is understood to have been taken just hours before he vanished on the night out.
It comes after the last person to speak Jay claimed he had been kidnapped and ‘something sinister is going on’.
On his way home, he spoke to his pal Lucy Law to say he was lost and dehydrated and only had one per cent battery on his phone.
He has not been seen or heard from since.
Spanish police have not entertained kidnap as a line of inquiry and are treating him as a missing person.
But Lucy told MailOnline: “The whole thing is just so weird.
"It's been three days now since he was last seen and the more time goes on the more I'm sure he has been taken. At first I wasn't so sure but now I'm convinced.
"He is not stupid if he left the house on his own he would have walked to the road and then tried to flag a car down or stop someone for help."
She also said that Jay called them to say he'd cut his leg on a cactus and didn't know where he was.Lucy said he rang her at approximately 8am, saying he "didn't know where he was", that he "needed a drink" and had "cut his leg on a cactus".
His mobile phone battery was down to 1%, but before the device died he was able to send her a photo of his location.
When she told him to return to where he had walked from, he said he did not know where that was.
He sounded disorientated and explained that he was "in the middle of mountains" with "nothing around".
Jay's mother, Debbie Duncan, has issued a plea for people to find her son after a 'false sighting' delayed the search for him on Wednesday.
"It's a nightmare. It's just an absolute living nightmare," she previously told ITN.
"It's like a dream - it's like it's not happening, it really is. I wouldn't wish this on anybody.
"I just want my baby back. Please, just anybody who can help just look for him. There's a massive area up there, massive.
"It's over 48 hours now since he last had any contact with anybody.
"He's out there somewhere, or somebody knows where he is. We just need to find my baby."
Authorities had been searching the mountainous area of north-west Tenerife for the teenager before focus shifted to tourist hotspots Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas in the south.
It came after an alleged sighting of him getting out of a taxi.
But it later emerged that the report was incorrect, with police forced to move attention back to the original site.
