Guardia Civil navigate difficult terrain as they continue the hunt for missing British teenager Jay Slater.
Every time I visited the area it was crawling with local hikers and tourists, amateur sleuths and international journalistsAfter 29 days of tension and torment for the family of Jay Slater , a body has been found in the remote mountainous region of Tenerife where he disappeared.
The body was found in a ravine within the Rural de Reno Park near Masca village. While the exact location and cause of death have yet to be disclosed, the statement says that Jay 'could have died due to an accidental fall in the steep and inaccessible area where he was found'. However, the authorities are yet to release an itemised list, and we do not know whether his phone was among them. The Mail understands that the body was discovered by officers working mainly for the Greim mountain team.
In Spanish territories such as the Canary Islands, the results of post-mortem examinations are not typically made public but are instead sent to an investigating magistrate. A mountain rescuer is lowered into the ravine. The body was lifted out of the ravine which was described by police as 'steep and inaccessible'
At around 7.30am, Jay posted two pictures of himself on Snapchat outside Casa Abuela Tina and half an hour later he was spotted at a bus stop by Ofelia Medina Hernandez, whose brother owns the property. So, after four weeks of speculation and competing theories online and in the Press, where does that leave us?
Every time I visited, the area was crawling with local hikers and tourists, amateur sleuths and international journalists. It was a hive of activity. I even joined the scores of people who walked directly through the cacti-ridden thicket where the body has now been found. I saw nothing. In fact, over almost a month, the thousands who visited this spot noticed nothing untoward.
The truly treacherous, even lethal, part of the ravine is where it drops into the sea, and where the rugged, Los Gigantes cliffs – nicknamed the 'Wall of Hell' – reach 600 metres into the sky. Even sober, and with plenty of water and food, I found the unrelenting heat and disorientating geography of the ravine to be challenging. One can only imagine how Jay felt.The boy's apparent knowledge of serious players in the European drugs trade raised suspicions that – as I wrote in these pages – he may have either fallen foul of their gangster codes and either been trafficked off the island or possibly murdered.
Again, this raises a slew of questions. Why, if the authorities were continuing their search, would they officially announce the end of the search and rescue mission on June 30? And why, on every single occasion my colleagues in the Press and I visited the area, was there no sign of this supposed ongoing search?
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