New picture shows missing Jay Slater, 19, posing with smiling brother & dad as sibling celebrated 21st birthday
A NEW image has emerged of missing Jay Slater as he posed with his brother and dad during birthday celebrations.
Jay, an apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire, flew out to the holiday island with two friends for the NRG festival before disappearing the next day.
He went to the closing night Sunday with his pals Lucy and Brad, but left with two men he met that day and headed to their accommodation.
Jay then made a frantic phone call on Monday to friend Lucy Law and told her he was stranded in the “middle of nowhere”.
The Brit teen has not been heard from or seen since, with search crews desperately hunting through the mountainous region of northern Tenerife.
The new photo released in the hunt for Jay was taken back in 2021 for his brother Zak’s 21st birthday.
Rescue crews on Friday focused their efforts around the 2,000ft Masca ravine close to Jay’s last known location – the desolate Teno Nature Reserve.
The dad of the missing Brit teen paid an emotional visit to the search site last night to mark the first visit by a close family member.
Tearful Warren Slater, 58, said “I just want my boy back” as he overlooked the deep ravine in the remote mountain village of Masca.
Mr Slater was supported by his son and Jay’s brother, Zak Slater, 24, who was too upset to comment when approached at a viewing point.
Warren and Zak were also joined by eight of Jay’s friends at the viewpoint above Masca.
He said: “I just want the boy back.”
Earlier today, devastated mum Debbie revealed a huge development in the search for the missing teen.
She said her son may have been spotted with two men some ten hours after he was last seen on Monday morning in the remote village of Masca.
She revealed a witness went to cops and claimed to have seen Jay sitting on a bench with the pair of men 3.5 miles away in Santiago del Teide.
The heartbroken mum said she now fears “something untoward” has happened to the teen.
Debbie, 55, has been in Tenerife since Tuesday helping with the massive police search for her 19-year-old son.
She revealed that the fresh sighting pinpoints Jay’s possible movements to 6pm on Monday – some 10 hours after his missing persons report was filed.
The worried mum said: “They said it was about 6pm which is ten hours after he was seen by the lady in the village.