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Pat Hurst

Jay Slater had drugs in his system before dying from head injury, inquest told

Jay Slater, 19, disappeared in Tenerife last summer (Family Handout/LBT Global/PA) - (PA Media)

Teenager Jay Slater, who disappeared in Tenerife last summer sparking a major manhunt, was found to have had drugs and alcohol in his system before he died from a head injury, a coroner’s court heard.

Mr Slater, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was holidaying on the Spanish island and had been to the NRG music festival with friends at the Papagayo nightclub in the resort of Playa de las Americas on June 16 last year.

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