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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sammy Gecsoyler

Family and friends pay tribute to Jay Slater at funeral in Lancashire

Pallbearers carry a blue coffin covered in white flowers and with the name Jay on the side
Pallbearers carry the coffin into Accrington cemetery chapel. Photograph: Acacia Redding/PA

The family and friends of Jay Slater have paid tribute to the teenager who died while on holiday in Tenerife at a funeral service attended by about 500 people.

Mourners packed into the chapel at the Accrington crematorium for the funeral of the 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, who is believed to have fallen to his death after getting lost in a mountainous area of the Spanish island on 17 June.

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