Jay Slater missing updates LATEST: Hunt continues for British teenager who vanished in Tenerife as friends issue plea for search party

Police officers are searching for the missing British teenager in the Masca ravine today on the island of Tenerife.

Photos show them desperately scouring the rocky area.

Jay’s mother said: ‘I just don’t know what to think, I’m all over the place and I’m trying to keep positive, has somebody taken him? Is he panicked and lost in the mountains? I just don’t know, that’s why if anyone has any information please just tell us.

‘But if he is lost then why hasn’t anyone seen him? It’s busy with hikers and holidaymakers up there so if he was lost then someone would have seen him, so that’s why I think maybe he’s been bundled off somewhere.’

Spanish police have never said kidnapping is a line of enquiry and are treating him as a missing person.

Read the latest from MailOnline below:

Jay’s best friend has called for British police to join the search.

The Mirror reported Lucy Mae Law as saying ‘it’s not looking good now’ and slamming the efforts of local cops.

The frantic mother of missing teenager Jay Slater has made a tearful appeal through MailOnline asking for anyone holding him to release him.

Worried Debbie Duncan has not heard from Jay since he left a rave party on the Spanish island of Tenerife and went off with two British men to their isolated Air BnB apartment an hour away.

Breaking down in tears, Debbie said: ‘If he’s got himself mixed up with any trouble, just let him go, just let him go, it’s been three days, he’s in the same clothes, if he’s been dumped in the mountains it’s hot in the day and cold at night.’

Masca in Tenerife is famously remote and treacherous place, locals told The Mirror.

It is based on the rugged Parque Rural de Teno, with locals calling it the ‘lost village’ due to it not having a road connection until the 90s.

It is one of the most remote parts of Tenerife, with multiple rescue missions being launched in the area in the last few years.

A church in Oswaldtwistle will tonight hold a service for Jay Slater following his disappearance in Tenerife.

West End Methodist Church said people will be able to ‘leave a message, say a prayer or light a candle’ from 7.30pm in an hour-long event.

The former head of Lambeth’s Missing Persons unit, Mike Neville, has told GB News that Jay’s phone call on Monday will be significant in the search to find him.

Speaking to GB News, Mr Neville said the fact the call can be traced will be of huge help to investigators.

The police will be conducting all sorts of search teams and using helicopters and potentially drones.

Park rangers will know particular tracks and where best to search. I am sure the Spanish police will be putting together a professional and coordinated search.”

The good thing here is, it’s away from the sea. The danger is if people go in the sea. That really is a problem. He does appear to be on land in that island.

Residents in the Lancashire town of Oswaldtwistle have tied blue ribbons to their railings and to bollards in a show of support for Jay Slater.

Liverpool Echo reporter Megan Banner shared a short clip from the town as she speaks to residents in the town where Jay lives.

One said: ‘Jay is a great lad. He is my grandsons best mate. I know him very well.’

We can now bring you some audio from Lucy Law who was the last person to speak to Jay before his disappearance in Tenerife.

Ms Law flew with Jay and another friend to the Canary island to attend the NRG music festival.

The hunt for missing British teenager Jay Slater has entered its fourth day on Tenerife.

It has now been more than 72 hours since Jay was last heard from after he flew to the Canary island on holiday with friends to attend the NRG music festival.

Here’s what we know so far today:

• Friends are increasingly concerned the 19-year-old may have been kidnapped with the last person to speak to him telling MailOnline, ‘something sinister is going on’.
• Lucy Law also criticised Spanish police for its search of the apprentice bricklayer, telling this website that officers ‘could be doing more’
• Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan claims she has been receiving sickening phone calls from Brits with ‘northern accents’ claiming to have kidnapped her son.
• It comes as around 15 family and friends join the search for Jay in Tenerife
• A GoFundMe page set up by Jay’s friends has raised more than £15,000

We will continue to provide updates throughout the day

We can now bring you some more remarks from our exclusive story from Tenerife where a friend of Jay Slater has told us of increasing concerns the teenager may have been kidnapped.

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.

The last time we heard from him it was around 9am so the place where he would have been walking would have had hikers and holidaymakers.

The more time passes and he has not been seen then the more we are convinced he has been taken by someone and is being held against his will.

Around 15 of Jay’s family and friends have flown out to Tenerife to help with the search, including his mother Debbie Duncan, father Warren Slater and brother Zak.

Since he went missing, Ms Duncan has been receiving sickening phone calls from Brits with ‘northern accents’ claiming to have kidnapped her son.

Yesterday, she revealed another horrifying message sent to her just moments after touching down in Tenerife. It read: ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.’

A close friend of Jay Slater has criticised Spanish police over its search for the 19-year-old British teenager

Lucy Law (pictured) told MailOnline:

I know they have had a helicopter and drones up but to be honest I think they could be doing more.

The other day I was on Veronica’s Strip in Los Cristianos and I picked up some information and I went to the Guardia Civilia and they said ‘Who is Jay Slater ?’

Can you believe that? It doesn’t really give you much confidence does it. I’ve been out looking and so have his friends and family.

We are just all so desperate for some news, we need people to keep looking we need Jay back.

The last person to speak to Jay Slater claims ‘something sinister is going on’ as fears he has been kidnapped grow with each passing day the teenager is not found.

The apprentice bricklayer, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from on Monday morning as he tried to walk home along a mountainous path in north-west Tenerife.

Read our story from Nick Pisa in Tenerife, Emily Davies and John James:

A GoFundMe page set up by Jay’s friend Lucy Mae has raised more than £14,000 in donations.

Launched with a target of £30,000, the page reads:

His last location was on an off road track, which was a 10 hour walk from his hotel. The weather conditions up there are terrible for someone in shorts & a t-shirt, both in the day & at night.

He has no water for when it’s warm through out the day, and he has no coat/suitable clothing for when it’s cold at night.

It was 1 degree and extremely windy when I was out looking in the middle of the night

We are all so worried and we just want him home.

MailOnline reporter Lettice Bromovsky has the timeline leading up to Jay disappearance on Tenerife as the hunt for the British teenager enters its fourth day.

June 16 (Sunday evening):

• Jay left the rave in South Tenerife with a group of people he met that day, telling Lucy he was staying with them at their apartment in an undisclosed location. One of the group has a hire car.
• 8.35pm: Jay is seen in the final Snapchat clip before his disappearance, wearing a grey t-shirt with a green stripe.

• 8.15am: Lucy said she received a panicked call from Jay in which he said his phone battery was only on one per cent, he was lost – and in desperate need of water.
• 8.50am: Jay’s phone dies. Its last known location is believed to be somewhere in the Rural de Teno national park.
• 9.04am: Police in Tenerife are alerted, and Lucy also gets in touch with the British Embassy.

• 2.30am: Jay’s mother Debbie Duncan and step-dad Andy Watson, 63, are alerted to his disappearance when police officers knock on their door in the early hours of the morning.
• 11.35am: Ms Duncan and Jay’s brother Zak land in Tenerife after catching the first flight out of Manchester airport.
• 1.45pm: Specialist mountain rescue teams and helicopters are deployed in the search to find missing Jay.
• 2.30pm: Ms Duncan posts an appeal on Facebook updating that her son is still missing and pleading with other to come forward if they know any further information.

• Searches suddenly shifted to the tourist hotspots of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas in south Tenerife, after a false sighting of him getting out of a taxi.
• They later returned to Masca where the search has now entered its fourth day.

These pictures, taken on Wednesday, show Spanish police and firefighters leading the search for missing teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife.

The 19-year-old from Lancashire had travelled to the Canary island with friends for the NRG music festival before he went missing.

He has not been seen or heard from since Monday morning.

Footage captured yesterday shows rescue teams operating a drone to find Jay in a mountainous area of a Tenerife national park.

The search and rescue effort was focused in Rural de Teno after a sighting in tourist area turned out to be false alarm.

Accrington and Rossendale College, where Jay was completing his apprenticeship, issued a statement to say it was ‘deeply concerned’ by the apprentice bricklayer’s disappearance.

We are deeply concerned about the recent news regarding one of our apprentices, Jay Slater, who has gone missing while on holiday in Tenerife.

The safety and wellbeing of our students are of utmost important to us, and our thoughts at this worrying time are with Jay’s family and friends.

An Irish journalist based in Tenerife has told Sky News today is seen as a ‘key day’ in the search for missing British teenager Jay Slater.

Former RTE editor Cliodna O’Flynn spoke to Kay Burley earlier today and said the next few hours could prove vital in the hunt for the 19-year-old from Lancashire.

Watch her interview earlier this morning:

A final Snapchat video of British teenager Jay Slater shows he was smiling and laughing the night before he went missing in Tenerife.

The 19-year-old travelled to the Canary Islands for the three-day ‘New Rave Generation’ (NRG) music festival with Lucy Mae and another friend last week.

On Sunday night, the apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, left the party in South Tenerife and last spoke to his friend Lucy on Monday morning.

MailOnline reporter Emily Davies reports the hunt for Jay Slater has now entered its fourth day after he went missing in Tenerife while on holiday with his friends.

The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle was last seen on a night out on Sunday after going to the NRG music festival.

When one of his friends last spoke to him on Monday morning, he said he was lost, thirsty and only had one per cent battery left.

Here’s Emily’s story on what we know so far:

Searches for Jay have been carried out in the mountainous Rural de Teno national park in the north-west of Tenerife.

The park is reported to be a 10-hour walk from his accommodation in the south of the island.

The mother of missing British teenager Jay Slater claims she has received a sick Snapchat message from trolls following her son’s disappearance.

The message is said to have read: ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.’

Read John James’s report here:

A friend of the missing teeanger Jay Slater told Sky News he had ‘cut his leg on a cactus’ and was directed to a bus stop as he attempted to return to his accommodation.

Lucy Law, who flew with Jay for the NRG music festival, said the apprentice bricklayer rang her on Monday to say he needed water and had cut his leg.

She told Sky News that Jay was directed to a bus stop after he knocked on the door of a house next to mountains which he had posted on social media.

Speaking to Sky News, she said

We managed to find the house. I knocked on the door and there were two people there.

They told me he’d spoken to the next door neighbours and they’d told him there was a bus every 10 minutes back down to Los Cristianos.

The bus stop was right next to the house. So obviously if he’d gone to get the bus he wouldn’t have got lost because it [the stop] was visible from the front door.

It has now been 72 hours since friends of Jay Slater last heard from him after his phone died in a national park in Tenerife, hours away from his accommodation on the island.

Here’s our graphic to explain his last known movements before the 19-year-old was reported missing to police.

Morning, if you’re just joining us this morning, here’s what we know about the search for Jay Slater, the British teenager who has gone missing in Tenerife.

• The hunt for Jay entered its fourth day this morning as searches resume in the mountainous Rural de Teno national park.
• Friends have appealed for people to join them as it reaches three days from the last time they heard from the 19-year-old from Lancashire.
• A message on Facebook said: ‘We will be up there again first thing, however a search party is going to be necessary to search everywhere as the area is very big. If you can help, please do, we need to get him home.’
• Jay flew to Tenerife with friends to attend the for the NRG music festival but last made contact on Monday morning when he told them he was 10 hours away from their accommodation but needed water and had 1% battery life on his phone
• His mother Debbie Duncan issued a tearful plea for his return last night as she told ITN, ‘It’s a nightmare. It’s just an absolute living nightmare.’

We will continue to bring you the latest updates from throughout the day.

Jay Slater’s mother issued a tearful plea for people to find her son as the chaotic search to track him down entered its fourth day.

It’s a nightmare. It’s just an absolute living nightmare. 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.

Friends of Jay Slater have today appealed for a search party to help find the missing teenager who hasn’t been seen or heard of for 72 hours.

In an update posted on a Facebook group, his friend Lucy wrote:

Still no updates, when it reaches 8:30am it’s been 3 days😢 tomorrow, we need as many people as possible up there searching for him please. We will be up there again first thing, however a search party is going to be necessary to search everywhere as the area is very big. If you can help, please do, we need to get him home.

Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage as the search for missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife.

Jay has not been seen or heard from since he called a friend on Monday morning to say he was 10 hours away from his accommodation in the south of the Island but needed water and had 1% battery life on his phone.

His friends have issued a plea for a search party as the hunt for the apprentice bricklayer resumes in the mountainous Rural de Teno national park (pictured).