Parents release ‘last known image’ of Jay Slater

Jay Slater's family have released a blurry image of a figure they believe could be the missing teenager

The family of Jay Slater have released a CCTV image which they believe could be the last known sighting of the missing teenager.

The search for the 19-year-old has entered its second week after he vanished in Tenerife in the early hours of last Monday.

On the eighth day of searching, his family have released a blurry image of a figure they think could be the apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire.

It was taken by a webcam in the town of Santiago Del Tide on Monday evening, around 10 hours after the last confirmed sighting.

The Guardia Civil has not confirmed the sighting but told The Telegraph that “nothing has been ruled out”.

Mr Slater travelled to Tenerife with two friends to attend the NRG music festival on Sunday.

He left the festival between 3am and 6am in the car of two other British men he had met that night.

At 7.30am he posted a picture on Snapchat showing him smoking a cigarette at the doorway of a cottage in Parque Rural de Teno, more than 30 miles from where the festival was held to the south of the island.

Jay Slater's last Snapchat post before he went missing in Tenerife

At around 8am Ofelia Medina Hernández, the owner of the two-bedroom Airbnb property where Mr Slater had travelled to, came across the teenager standing at a nearby bus stop.

He asked when the next bus was to Los Cristianos, a resort area where he had been staying, and she signalled it was not for another two hours. Instead of waiting, Mr Slater decided to walk.

After setting off he rang his friend Lucy Law, who had joined him at the music festival, and said he was lost, thirsty, had one per cent charge left on his phone, and had cut his leg on a cactus.

His phone died shortly after the call. Its last location was north of the cottage.

It comes as the construction company that employs Mr Slater said he was being misrepresented online.

Conspiracy theories

Bizarre conspiracy theories have been posted on a Facebook group amid high public interest in the teenager’s disappearance.

Some have speculated that Mr Slater had been kidnapped, while others suggested he is simply hiding.

PH Build, which employs the 19-year-old as an apprentice bricklayer, said: “Jay has been with us since he left school and is liked by all. He’s a valued member of our team and we stand by him.”

“The picture being painted of him is just not true. The fact is he’s a 19-year-old lad missing in a foreign country. He needs to be back home where he belongs. Come on Jay we are all praying for you.”

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