Jay Slater update: Missing teen’s mum says search has been a ‘living hell’

The mother of Jay Slater, a British teenager who vanished three days ago on a rural hiking trail in Tenerife, has said she ‘just wants her baby back’.

Jay, 19, was last heard from walking to his apartment in Los Cristianos on the southwest coast of the Spanish island on Monday morning.

The apprentice bricklayer had been staying with two others to attend the New Rave Generation (NRG) music festival at Papagayo in Playa Las Americas.

Jay stayed overnight with two festival-goers at the village of Masca before venturing back home early Monday morning.

Friend Lucy Mae was the last to speak with Jay over the phone at 8.15am as he walked through a hiking trail without water and only 1% phone battery.

Mum Debbie Duncan said searching for her son has been a ‘living hell’ and she now wishes she encouraged Jay not to go on his first holiday without her.

Police have launched a search involving sniffer dogs and drones across the Masca Valley and Rural de Teno park.

‘No hypothesis is ruled out’ in the investigation, the force says.