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THIS is the moment cops looking for Jay Slater scoured the exact spot where a mystery "grainy figure" was seen.

Our exclusive footage shows a cop searching a spot where a sighting of the missing teen was reported in Santiago del Teide.

Exclusive footage from The Sun shows a cop searching the exact spot where a mystery grainy figure was seen
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Exclusive footage from The Sun shows a cop searching the exact spot where a mystery grainy figure was seenCredit: The Sun
The officer held a flashlight as he also inspected a red container
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The officer held a flashlight as he also inspected a red containerCredit: The Sun
The cop and another man are seen combing the area for clues
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The cop and another man are seen combing the area for cluesCredit: The Sun
Jay pictured with mum Debbie
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Jay pictured with mum DebbieCredit: Ian Whittaker

An officer with a flashlight and another man are seen combing the area for clues, at one point examining a red container.

The pair then walks towards the town hall, before heading back over to the church and waiting near the road.

Previous grainy footage taken at the same spot showed a figure that the teen's family are praying is him.

Meanwhile, missing Jay Slater was spotted "celebrating" at a bar while watching the Euros, a mayor in Tenerife claims.

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Jay vanished on Monday last week sparking a frantic search using helicopters, drones and sniffer dogs.

Locals in Santiago del Teide claim they spotted the 19-year-old on a bench 10 hours after his last phone call.

The town's mayor revealed new bizarre reports have been made from Los Gigantes, eight miles away on the coast.

Emilio Jose Navarro said a number of locals told cops that Jay was enjoying watching the football tournament.

He said: "The local city hall police have had some interviews with people that could have seen him.

"Some people think he may have been in the coastal area of the municipality, they saw him celebrating in a bar over the days they have been Euro cup matches."

Jay Slater’s dad pleads ‘someone must know something’ one week after son’s disappearance as he urges police to widen search
The church and square in Santiago del Teide where Jay's mother says a witness last spotted the teenager
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The church and square in Santiago del Teide where Jay's mother says a witness last spotted the teenagerCredit: Ian Whittaker
Jay Slater's family have shared a grainy CCTV image they believe could be him
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Jay Slater's family have shared a grainy CCTV image they believe could be him
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He added: "We know the judicial police is investigating the city hall security cameras, which are more for tourism purposes than security.

"They are working also with the company that handles those cameras, it's the Guardia Civil that is handling that."

On Wednesday, cop Mark William Thomas retraced Jay's last known steps and was in communication with his family.


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Spanish police continued their search with new specialist sniffer dog teams in remote Masca, where Jay was last heard from.

Jay, of Oswaldtwistle, Lancs disappeared after leaving two pals he met at the NRG music festival at their AirBnb cottage.

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He called pal Lucy Law and told her he was exhausted and thirsty, with just one per cent battery on his phone.

The walk from Jay’s last-known location to his accommodation would have taken about 11 hours on foot.

Jay Slater has been missing since last Monday
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Jay Slater has been missing since last MondayCredit: Solarpix
Missing person posters have been put up in Tenerife
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Missing person posters have been put up in TenerifeCredit: Ian Whittaker
Investigators are using drones to aid their search
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Investigators are using drones to aid their searchCredit: Reuters

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 dad Warren and brother Zak visit the search site in Tenerife

SUNDAY 23

Cops focus their search around small outbuildings in de Teno park near where Jay's phone last pinged

Jay's mum Debbie says trolls are comparing her to Karen Matthews

The GoFundMe set up by Jay's friend Lucy surpasses £30,000 after just three days

Exclusive Sun footage shows Jay appearing to fall and stumble back up at a rave before he vanished

MONDAY 24

Search for Jay enters eighth day

Police expand search area north to parts of Buenavista del Norte

Jay's dad says his family are in 'a living hell'

TUESDAY 25

Brit hiker found by Jay search teams says he 'didn't need to be saved'

Madeleine McCann cop lands in Tenerife to join search

Tenerife cops call in reinforcements from Madrid - including specialist sniffer dogs

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