Spanish police are looking into reports of missing British teenager Jay Slater “watching Euro games” near where he vanished in Tenerife.
Police have reportedly spoken to several people who said they may have seen the 19-year-old watching football matches after his friends lost contact with him, a local mayor has said.
Emilio Jose Navarro, mayor of the town of Santiago del Teide, said officers have interviewed a number of people who believe they saw the British teenager, the Independent reports.
On Wednesday local police released footage showing the search for Mr Slater continuing by both land and air.
In an update Garda Civil said: “We continue with the search for the young British man who disappeared in Tenerife.
“Different civil guard units from the area participated, joined by agents with their dogs specialised in searching for people from Madrid.”
Footage shows a helicopter searching the mountainous area, with search teams on foot joined by sniffer dogs.
Continuamos con el dispositivo de búsqueda del joven británico desaparecido en #Tenerife
— Guardia Civil (@guardiacivil) June 25, 2024
Participan diferentes unidades de la guardia civil de la zona, a las que se han unido agentes con sus canes especializados en la búsqueda de personas de #Madrid pic.twitter.com/UbMIjJ49iO
Meanwhile police examine grainy CCTV footage from the town that emerged on Monday which could be a new sighting of the missing teenager 10 hours after his phone’s last live location.
“We know the police are investigating (the CCTV images). They have asked for the town hall’s security cameras and they are also working with the company that handles those cameras,” Mr Navarro said.
The CCTV is taken in Santiago de Teide close to a church where Mr Slater’s mother said on Saturday that a man has come forward to say he saw someone matching her son’s description sitting on a bench with two men.
The man believes he saw Mr Slater sat on a bench near the San Fernando Rey church looking “a bit worse for wear” around the same time on Monday evening.
A source close to the family told MailOnline of the CCTV: “It looks like him and is certainly a man’s shape but we just don’t know. It was taken near the church where a witness says he saw him so we have to keep hoping.”
It comes as Mr Slater’s distraught dad Warren said his family are in “a living hell” as the search to find his son entered its second week. Speaking to the Sun in Santiago de Teide he broke down in tears as he appealed for the safe return of his son.
He told the newspaper: “I just want him to be found. I just want my son back, end of.
“What more is there, it’s been a week now, a week of nothing. So somebody somewhere must’ve found out something. Somebody.
“It is a living hell, unless you’re going through it, you cannot explain.
“Please, please please, if anybody knows anything just come forward and help us."
The sighting is said to have taken place at 6pm, 10 hours after his phone last pinged around three-and-a-half miles away in the rugged Rural de Teno park, where search efforts have been concentrated.
Santiago de Teide is around 15 miles from the rave venue Mr Slater was partying at.
The apprentice bricklayer, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, had attended the NRG music festival on the island with two friends before his disappearance and was last heard from on Monday last week.
He disappeared following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus.
The walk from Mr Slater’s last known location, Rural de Teno Park in the north of the island, to his accommodation would have taken about 11 hours on foot.
Friend Lucy Law said Mr Slater told her in a frantic phone call last Monday at 8.30am that he was “lost in the mountains, he wasn’t aware of his surroundings, he desperately needed a drink and his phone was on 1%”.
Search teams in Tenerife narrowed their efforts over the weekend on small buildings close to where his phone last pinged.
Officers from the Guardia Civil in the Canary Islands could be seen circling two structures at the bottom of a ravine in Rural de Teno Park on Sunday.
Efforts appeared to be solely focused on the one area after days of searches in the village of Masca and the surrounding landscape.
