Jay Slater updates: Father describes ‘living hell’ as footage shows teen in club before disappearance

Andrew Knight, known on YouTube as the Knightrider, told The Independent of the climate in Tenerife: “It’s rugged mountainsides, loose rocks that fall away underfoot, cactuses everywhere. It’s a disorienting landscape and also has extreme weather changes.”

Jay Slater’s last known movements have been mapped as the desperate search for the missing teenager entered its second week in Tenerife.

Holly Evans reports live from the scene in Masca, Tenerife:

The area is a difficult terrain to navigate, small paths wind off the main road into the mountains but they are narrow and dramatic drops open up unexpectedly on either side, she writes.

Once leaving the main road, the bushes are coarse and there are brambles and cacti everywhere, which is hampering the efforts of search teams and rescue workers.

A former police chief constable has hit out at armchair detectives following a social media frenzy surrounding missing British teenager Jay Slater.

Reporting live from the scene in Masca, Tenerife, Holly Evans said that according to those who have been at the scene on previous days, the search has progressed to the more remote areas away from the main road.

Holly Evans reports live from Tenerife:

Over the last two days, Jay Slater’s father has travelled to Santiago del Tiede and has been seen putting posters around the small town, before also visiting the search site near Masca.

As well as rescue workers, friends and journalists, the search has also attracted internet sleuths and conspiracy theorists.

Speaking from Santiago del Tiede, one couple, who described their interest in ‘dark tourism’, said they had travelled to the scene for the last 3 days to observe the search given the unusual background to Mr Slater’s disappearance.

The missing 19-year-old was part of a group of eight people who attacked Tom Hilton, then 17, with a machete, golf clubs and an axe in Rishton, Lancashire, in 2021.

The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, was handed an 18-month community order with 25 days of rehabilitation activities and 150 hours of unpaid work for his role in the violent disorder.

Our reporter Holly Evans is in Tenerife speaking to locals and tourists about the search for Jay Slater, as the teenager remains missing over a week after his disappearance.

Speaking from a cafe located next to the main square, one local woman Anita told The Independent: “We often have hikers go missing, every summer it is the same.

“Police come for a week and search and then they go – sometimes it can take months for a body to be found as the mountains are too difficult to search.

“People have said there was a sighting of him here, but no one knows anything – his family come here but there’s nothing to show he is here, as far as I know no shop or cafe has seen him.”

Carol Vorderman says the disappearance of teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife has made her reflect on the time she went missing following the death of her Countdown co-star Richard Whiteley.

Mr Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared in Tenerife a week ago following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus.

Ms Vorderman told LBC listeners that following the death of Mr Whiteley she just locked herself away for days and didn’t communicate with anyone as she discussed the hunt for the British teenager on her show on Sunday (23 June).

Her comments sparked some backlash from listeners online.

One person said: “I don’t think this is the same thing Carol!!?.”

The search for Jay Slater in Tenerife is continuing over a week after he was last heard from on the Spanish island.

The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus in the north of island.

Here are the key updates so far from the search for the 19-year-old: