Jay Slater: Brit still missing in Tenerife after eight-day search

Search teams in Tenerife are still scouring the Spanish island for missing British teenager Jay Slater.

The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, vanished without a trace while on holiday last Monday.

Police hoping to track him on Sunday focused on some small outbuildings in a village at the bottom of a ravine, near to where his phone was last traced to.

Mr Slater has not been heard from since calling one of the friends he had travelled with eight days ago – telling her he was lost, his phone was running out of battery and he needed water.

Specialist dog teams have also been out looking for him, with much of the search focusing on an area near a national park in north-western Tenerife.

The teams are working in challenging conditions at Rural de Teno National Park – Mr Slater’s last known location.

Officers from the Guardia Civil in the Canary island were spotted searching two structures at the bottom of a ravine in the park on Sunday.

Efforts appeared to be primarily focused on the one area after days of searches in the nearby village of Masca and the surrounding landscape.

One man who had flown out from the UK to help described his role in the search operation through ravines as like “looking for a needle in a haystack”.

Mountaineer Paul Arnott, 29, of Flitwick, Bedfordshire, said: “You cannot believe how steep and big an area it is until you get out here.

“I thought there would be more people searching, though.”