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A NEW image has emerged of Jay Slater just hours before he vanished in Tenerife on Monday.

The photograph shows Jay, 19, at a rave on Sunday evening which he left with two new friends before disappearing the next day.

Jay Slater pictured at a rave in Tenerife on Sunday
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Jay Slater pictured at a rave in Tenerife on Sunday
Video that emerged earlier this week showed Jay at the same rave
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Video that emerged earlier this week showed Jay at the same raveCredit: TikTok
Jay, 19, was in Tenerife with two friends to go to a festival on the weekend
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Jay, 19, was in Tenerife with two friends to go to a festival on the weekendCredit: MEN Media
Mountain rescue survey the ravine in Tenerife where they are searching for Jay
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Mountain rescue survey the ravine in Tenerife where they are searching for JayCredit: PA

Jay, an apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire, flew out to the holiday island with two friends for the NRG festival.

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.

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 bombshell new image - which shows Jay wading through a packed dance floor - comes after footage of him from the same night.

Video showed him walking through the club with sunglasses propped on his head as music blared out.


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Rescue teams are searching the mountainous area near Masca in northern Tenerife for missing Jay
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Rescue teams are searching the mountainous area near Masca in northern Tenerife for missing JayCredit: PA
Volunteers, police, firefighters and mountain rescue are out in full force
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Volunteers, police, firefighters and mountain rescue are out in full forceCredit: PA

Rescue efforts turned their focus to an area known locally as "the badlands" on Friday.

Pictures from the scene show cops, firefighters, volunteers and sniffer dogs scanning the desolate Teno Nature Reserve, Jay's last known location.

Locals and experts have warned of the treacherous conditions in the area - where the air is "thin", temperatures change rapidly and the mountains drop sharply to the water below.

Jay's mum Debbie expressed fears something "untoward" has happened to her son after a bombshell new sighting was passed onto cops on Saturday.

Speaking from Tenerife, the worried mum said her son may have been spotted with two men some ten hours after he was last seen on Monday morning.

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.

Debbie told Mail Online: "Someone has come forward to say they saw someone who they thought was Jay walking back down the road sat on a bench.

"He was with two men looking a bit worse for wear, and they were by a church, this guy has come forward and told the police about it and they are looking into it.

"We don't know if it was Jay for sure, but it's a start."

Cops have yet to confirm the new sighting of the missing teen.

Debbie, 55, has been in Tenerife since Tuesday helping with the massive police search for her 19-year-old son.

Jay's mum Debbie today slammed the investigation into her son's disappearance for not allowing British cops to contribute.

On Friday Lancashire Constabulary offered to help Spain's Guardia Civil in their efforts to find the teenager.

But local police rejected the bid and insisted they have the "resources" required to find him.

The mum also told The Guardian she spent eight hours in a police station as they revealed plans for ramping up the rescue effort.

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Former Met Police officer Peter Bleksley told The Sun on Sunday: "The Tenerifan police will be keen to maintain a missing person narrative.

“Policing is all about control. We've seen the resources rolled out. With another force involved it leads to even more speculation."

Timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance

By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter

SUNDAY JUNE 16 - MONDAY 17

Jay goes to a rave at the 2024 NRG music festival in Tenerife, around Arona on the south of the island

8.35pm - Jay posts a smiling Snapchat video of him laughing with friends

He leaves the rave with two men he met that day and is driven back to their accommodation across the island

MONDAY 17

7.30am - Jay posts a Snapchat of a hand holding a cigarette in the area where the accommodation was - near the rural de Teno Park on the north of the island

8.30am - Jay calls his friend Lucy Law and tells her he missed a bus, had one per cent of battery left on his phone and was stuck in the “middle of nowhere”

9am - A missing persons report is filed and the search for Jay begins

TUESDAY 18

2am - Police knock on the door of Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan’s home and tell her to catch the first flight out to Tenerife

7am - She flies out from Manchester Airport alongside her son Zak to help with the search

Debbie is sent a Snapchat message saying “Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money."

WEDNESDAY 19

12.30pm - Police move the search to the south of the island briefly after a false sighting

Cops search his hotel room for clues as his mum says there was “nothing untoward there”

Debbie gives a heart-wrenching interview where she shares fears he has been “taken” and says “I just want my baby back”

THURSDAY 20

Cops begin day four of the massive search for Jay

FRIDAY 21

Lancashire cops offer to help with the search but Tenerife authorities say they are "satisfied that they have the resources they need"

Search turns to 22,000ft ravine in Masca - part of an area dubbed "the badlands" by locals

SATURDAY 22

The sixth day of the search begins with sniffer dogs, cops, mountain rescue and firefighters again taking to the hills in northern Tenerife

Possible new sighting of Jay places him near a church with two men at 6pm on Monday - although unconfirmed by police

Jay's mum Debbie shared fears something 'untoward' has happened to her son
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Jay's mum Debbie shared fears something 'untoward' has happened to her sonCredit: ITN Productions
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