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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jay Slater had taken drugs and alcohol and was 14-hour walk from resort, inquest told

Jay Slater, 19: he has short light brown hair and, in this photo, a wide smile.
Jay Slater, 19, went missing on Tenerife in June last year. Photograph: PA

The British teenager Jay Slater had taken drugs and alcohol and was a 14-hour walk away from his accommodation before his disappearance sparked a four-week search in Tenerife, an inquest into his death heard.

The 19-year-old had taken ecstasy pills, cocaine and possibly ketamine, along with alcohol, before he went to an Airbnb with two strangers, one of his friends told a court on Thursday. Bradley Geoghegan, who had gone on holiday with Slater, said Slater had video-called him after he left the apartment on the morning of 17 June last year.

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