A NEW image has been released of Jay Slater just hours before he vanished in Tenerife on Monday.
The photograph shows Jay, 19, at a rave on Sunday evening which he left with two new friends before disappearing the next day.
Jay Slater pictured at a rave in Tenerife on Sunday
Video released this week showed him at the same rave
MEN MediaJay, 19, was in Tenerife with two friends to go to a festival on the weekend[/caption]
Jay, an apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire, flew out to the holiday island with two friends for the NRG festival.
He went to the closing night Sunday with his pals Lucy and Brad, but left with two men he met that day to continue the evening at their accommodation.
Jay then made a frantic phone call on Monday to friend Lucy Law and told her he was stranded in the “middle of nowhere”.
The Brit teen has not been heard from or seen since, with search crews desperately hunting through the mountainous region of northern Tenerife.
Rescue crews on Friday focused their efforts around the 2,000ft Masca ravine close to Jay’s last known location – the desolate Teno Nature Reserve.
The bombshell new image – which shows Jay wading through a packed dance floor – comes after footage of him from the same night.
Video showed him walking through the club with sunglasses propped on his head as music blared out.
It comes as…
Bombshell new vid shows Jay at a rave hours being he vanished
Pics show Airbnb teen partied at before going missing
Jay was spotted ‘walking alone’ into mountains by Airbnb owner
Jay’s mum was sent a message saying “kiss goodbye to your son” amid family fears he’s been kidnapped
She gave a tearful plea and said “I just want my baby back”
Cops searched the teen’s hotel room in Tenerife for clues
Brit cops offered to fly out and help but Spanish officials said no
Jay’s mum slammed the Tenerife police investigation
Rescue efforts turned their focus to an area known locally as “the badlands” on Friday.
Pictures from the scene show cops, firefighters, volunteers and sniffer dogs scanning the desolate Teno Nature Reserve, Jay’s last known location.
Locals and experts have warned of the treacherous conditions in the area – where the air is “thin”, temperatures change rapidly and the mountains drop sharply to the water below.
Jay’s mum Debbie expressed fears something “untoward” has happened to her son after a bombshell new sighting was passed onto cops on Saturday.
Speaking from Tenerife, the worried mum said her son may have been spotted with two men some ten hours after he was last seen on Monday morning.
She revealed a witness went to cops and claimed to have seen Jay sitting on a bench with the pair of men 3.5 miles away in Santiago del Teide.
Debbie told Mail Online: “Someone has come forward to say they saw someone who they thought was Jay walking back down the road sat on a bench.
“He was with two men looking a bit worse for wear, and they were by a church, this guy has come forward and told the police about it and they are looking into it.
“We don’t know if it was Jay for sure, but it’s a start.”
Debbie, 55, has been in Tenerife since Tuesday helping with the massive police search for her 19-year-old son.
Cops have yet to confirm the new sighting of the missing teen.
Jay’s mum Debbie today slammed the investigation into her son’s disappearance for not allowing British cops to contribute.
On Friday Lancashire Constabulary offered to help Spain’s Guardia Civil in their efforts to find the teenager.
But local police rejected the bid and insisted they have the “resources” required to find him.
The mum also told The Guardian she spent eight hours in a police station as they revealed plans for ramping up the rescue effort.
Former Met Police officer Peter Bleksley told The Sun on Sunday: “The Tenerifan police will be keen to maintain a missing person narrative.
“Policing is all about control. We’ve seen the resources rolled out. With another force involved it leads to even more speculation.”
Timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
SUNDAY JUNE 16 – MONDAY 17
Jay goes to a rave at the 2024 NRG music festival in Tenerife, around Arona on the south of the island
8.35pm – Jay posts a smiling Snapchat video of him laughing with friends
He leaves the rave with two men he met that day and is driven back to their accommodation across the island
MONDAY 17
7.30am – Jay posts a Snapchat of a hand holding a cigarette in the area where the accommodation was – near the rural de Teno Park on the north of the island
8.30am – Jay calls his friend Lucy Law and tells her he missed a bus, had one per cent of battery left on his phone and was stuck in the “middle of nowhere”
9am – A missing persons report is filed and the search for Jay begins
TUESDAY 18
2am – Police knock on the door of Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan’s home and tell her to catch the first flight out to Tenerife
7am – She flies out from Manchester Airport alongside her son Zak to help with the search
Debbie is sent a Snapchat message saying “Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.”
WEDNESDAY 19
12.30pm – Police move the search to the south of the island briefly after a false sighting
Cops search his hotel room for clues as his mum says there was “nothing untoward there”
Debbie gives a heart-wrenching interview where she shares fears he has been “taken” and says “I just want my baby back”
THURSDAY 20
Cops begin day four of the massive search for Jay
FRIDAY 21
Lancashire cops offer to help with the search but Tenerife authorities say they are “satisfied that they have the resources they need”
Search turns to 22,000ft ravine in Masca – part of an area dubbed “the badlands” by locals
SATURDAY 22
The sixth day of the search begins with sniffer dogs, cops, mountain rescue and firefighters again taking to the hills in northern Tenerife
Possible new sighting of Jay places him near a church with two men at 6pm on Monday – although unconfirmed by police