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Spanish police have spoken to several people who said they may have seen Jay Slater watching Euro 2024 matches after his last contact with friends, a local mayor has said.
Emilio Jose Navarro, mayor of the town of Santiago del Teide, said officers have interviewed a number of people who believe they saw the 19-year-old.
Police are examining grainy CCTV footage from the town, which is around three-and-a-half miles from the mountainous Rural de Teno park – the apprentice bricklacker’s last known location – to determine whether it is a possible sighting.
The image, shared by the family to media outlets, shows a person walking through town and was captured around 10 hours after Jay’s phone last pinged.
“We know the police are investigating (the CCTV images). They have asked for the town hall’s security cameras and they are also working with the company that handles those cameras,” Mr Navarro said.
ICYMI: Specialist search dogs flown in from Madrid to help hunt for Jay Slater
In case you missed the latest from The Independent’s reporter in Tenerife, Holly Evans, specialist police dogs have been flown into Tenerife to help with the search for British teenager Jay Slater.
A statement from the Tenerife police on Tuesday said that several Canine Guides of the Civil Guard were dispatched from Madrid with dogs “specialised in the search for people on large areas of land”.
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Teams searching for Jay Slater rescue ‘disorientated’ Scottish hiker
Search teams looking for missing Jay Slater have rescued a Scottish hiker lost in the mountainous area of Tenerife where the teenager went missing.
Police said the 51-year-old had got into difficulty in the same region of the island where Mr Slater disappeared last Monday, according to Sky News.
The hiker was reported missing in Buenavista del Norte after he did not return from a walk on Friday, the outlet quoted police as saying.
Officers said the “disorientated” man was found trapped in a ravine and would not have been able to get back to safety “by his own means”.
Everything we know about Jay Slater’s disappearance
Worried relatives and friends are still searching for a sighting of Jay Slater after he vanished on Tenerife.
The 19-year-old was on his first ever holiday without his family when he vanished as he walked back to his accommodation last Monday morning.
As the search continues, here’s everything we know about his disappearance:
Former police chief constable hits out at Jay Slater armchair detectives
A former police chief constable has hit out at armchair detectives following a social media frenzy surrounding missing British teenager Jay Slater.
As the search for the 19-year-old, who disappeared after attending a music festival in Tenerife over a week ago continues, a former polce boss has urged the public to stop “hampering” the investigation.
Sue Sim, the former chief constable of Northumbria Police who led the high-profile search for Raoul Moat, told Sky News on Monday: “Having led massive inquiries of this type, please do not spend time putting things on social media.
“The worst thing that people can do sitting at home in their armchairs is to speculate what might have happened.”
Timeline: The search for missing Jay Slater in Tenerife
The search for Jay Slater in Tenerife is continuing over a week after he was last heard from on the Spanish island.
The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus in the north of island.
Here are the key updates so far from the search for the 19-year-old:
Police examining possible CCTV sighting, mayor says
Spanish police are examining CCTV footage from a Tenerife town near where Jay Slater disappeared, its mayor said on Tuesday.
Warren Slater, the teenager’s father, on Monday shared a blurry still picture from a security camera in the town of Santiago del Teide of a person that could be his son in the hope it would help with the search, British media reported.
“We know the police are investigating (the CCTV images). They have asked for the town hall’s security cameras and they are also working with the company that handles those cameras,” the town’s mayor Emilio Jose Navarro said.
The grainy CCTV image shows a person walking through the town, but it is impossible to make out a face.
Crucially, it was taken at around 6pm last Monday, around 10 hours after the last known ping from Jay’s phone, which came from the Rural de Teno park around three-and-a-half miles away.
Jay Slater’s mum ‘has barely slept’ as search for missing teen continues.
The mother of Jay Slater says she has barely slept in the time since her son disappeared on Tenerife more than a week ago.
Debbie Duncan flew out to the Spanish island
Speaking to the MailOnline on Tuesday, she said: “It’s been a week now and it’s been awful. I’ve barely slept and I’m at my wits’ end.
“The Spanish police are doing a good job and we are getting updated from the consulate so we just put our faith in them.”
The harsh conditions in Tenerife facing missing Jay Slater at the time of his disappearance
A travel blogger living in Tenerife has described the treacherous conditions facing Jay Slater as he joins the search for the missing teenager.
Andrew Knight, known on YouTube as the Knightrider, told The Independent of the climate in Tenerife: “It’s rugged mountainsides, loose rocks that fall away underfoot, cactuses everywhere. It’s a disorienting landscape and also has extreme weather changes.
“At night the temperature drops to around 12 degrees Celsius, but with the wind chill and the thin air at altitude, it feels around 10 degrees.
“In the sunshine, it can go up to 28 degrees. It also can be quite damp, it rained a little when I was there. It has its own microclimate that changes by the hour.”
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Jay Slater: Everything we know about the Briton missing in Tenerife
Worried relatives and friends are still searching for a sighting of British teenager Jay Slater after he vanished on the island of Tenerife.
He had gone to stay with two people he had met at the NRG music festival and, having missed the last bus back, embarked on what would have been an 11 hour walk.
Source: independent.co.uk
