Helicopters, rescue dogs and drones continue to scour the holiday island of Tenerife in the search for a missing British teenager, as worried family and friends endure a ‘living nightmare’.
The hunt for 19-year-old Jay Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn in Lancashire, now enters its sixth day.
Lancashire Police said that while the case was ‘outside the jurisdiction of UK police’ they had offered to assist Spanish police ‘should they require additional resources’.
Police added: “They have confirmed that at this time they are satisfied they have the resources required but this offer remains open and they will contact us if that position changes.”
The apprentice bricklayer was on holiday in Tenerife with friends before he disappeared on Monday.
The last time he was heard from was when he called a friend to say he was going on an 11-hour walk to get home after missing the bus.
Ofelia Medina Hernandez, who was the last person : ‘I saw the boy in the morning at around 8am.
‘He asked twice what time the bus was arriving.
‘I told him at 10am.’
‘He came back and asked me again and I told him again – at 10am.’
‘After that he left and I never saw him again.
“Later I got in my car and saw him – he was leaving quickly.
“But after that I didn’t see him again.”
Her story came to light when photographs showed the house where he was last seen in the northwest mountain village of Maska after attending the NRG music festival.
“We are at a loss for words”
In a post on the Jay Slater Missing Facebook page, group administrator Rachel Louise g said this. Family and friends were “at a loss for words.”
She said: “Unfortunately there is no news for anyone.” . does everything he can.
“We are at a loss for words – I just can’t say anything more, I would love to.”
“I wish it would end now, this living nightmare.
“The search continues and we are staying positive.
“Thank you to everyone who is supporting and helping us, we can’t thank you enough, with love.”
Searchers check the river at the bottom of the gorge
On Friday, search and rescue teams, along with officers from the island’s Guardia Civil, combed the overgrown area near Masca.
teams also paid close attention to the river called Barranco Madre del Agua at the bottom of the gorge, where rescuers carefully picked their way through fallen dead palm trees.
Mr Slater’s girlfriend Lucy Lowe, who was attending the music festival with him, said he called her at around 8.30am on Monday to say he was “lost in the mountains, unaware of his surroundings and desperate for help.”
Meanwhile, members of the local community gathered for a service in his home town to express their hope for his safe return.
A spokesman for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: “We are supporting the family of the Briton missing in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.”