Jay Slater's best friend Lucy Law posts emotional message to 'the happiest and most smiley person' after body found near where teenager's last phone pinged

Jay Slater's champion person has posted an affectional connection to the 'happiest and astir smiley person' aft a assemblage was recovered adjacent wherever his telephone past pinged. 

The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire went missing connected June 17, and yesterday Spanish constabulary announced the find of a assemblage with Jay's 'possessions and clothes' nearby. 

The teen had jetted disconnected to Tenerife for an eight-day vacation with his champion mates Lucy Law and Brad Hargreaves earlier helium vanished. 

In a heart-wrenching Instagram station published past nighttime Lucy wrote: 'Honestly mislaid for words. Always the happiest and astir smiley idiosyncratic successful the room, you was 1 of a benignant Jay and you'll beryllium missed much than you know. 

'I'm definite you'll 'have your dancing shoes polished and ready' waiting for america all. We each emotion you buddy. Fly high.'

It comes as:

• Jay's parent Debbie Duncan has been near 'totally devastated' by the find of a assemblage adjacent to wherever her son's mobile telephone past pinged.
• GoFundMe has revealed what volition hap to the £54,000 raised to assistance find the missing teenager.
• Tributes person started pouring in, including from Brad Hargreaves who said determination are 'no words' pursuing the discovery.
• The assemblage was airlifted retired of an 'inaccessible area' arsenic his household await a post-mortem examination.
• Unanswered questions inactive situation the disappearance of Jay Slater including wherefore did it instrumentality truthful agelong to find a assemblage and who was the 2nd antheral successful the Airbnb? 

Alongside the connection she published a postulation of pictures and videos of the brace hanging retired implicit the years.  

Formal recognition has not yet taken place, but officers accidental that 'everything is pointing to it being' the missing teen. 

His grief-stricken parent Debbie Duncan, 55, has 'lots of questions which she hopes volition beryllium answered successful the coming days,' a root adjacent to the household said.

'Debbie is wholly devastated,' the insider told The Sun, adding that the 'hardest' portion for Duncan is that the remains were 'found truthful adjacent to the archetypal hunt site'.

Brad Hargreaves, who had been helping with the hunt earlier flying backmost to Britain past week, besides paid tribute to Jay yesterday. 

He posted 2 snaps of him and his person alongside a heartfelt message: 'Nothing beryllium the aforesaid without you. Rest casual brother. Love you always.'

Authorities person not yet released the nonstop determination successful which they recovered the body, but it is understood that the remains were discovered in an 'inaccessible' and precise distant country adjacent the colony of Masca.

The Mirror reported that constabulary recovered Jay's assemblage a '20-minute walk' from wherever the teenager's telephone past pinged.

The terrain is described arsenic 'dense' and is understood to beryllium afloat of uneven crushed and shrubland. There is besides nary motion of immoderate exigency services successful the adjacent village.

The unit released video footage of rescuers climbing stone faces and battling done scrub arsenic they carried retired the search.

Part of the clip shows 2 members of the hunt squad being winched retired of the country by chopper aft the assemblage had been recovered and recovered.

While ceremonial recognition has not yet taken place, the remains were recovered with the 19-year-old's apparel and possessions adjacent his past known location, missing persons charity LBT Global said.

While the Civil Guard said it had called disconnected the authoritative hunt aft conscionable 13 days, yesterday it was revealed that officials had been carrying connected with the search, unbeknownst to anyone successful a bid to halt net sleuths from searching themselves.

'The find was imaginable acknowledgment to the incessant and discreet hunt carried retired by the Civil Guard during these 29 days, successful which the earthy abstraction was preserved truthful that it would not beryllium filled with onlookers,' a connection read.

Tenerife's Guardia Civil said connected Monday that officers are waiting for the results of a post-mortem introspection to corroborate the origin of death, which could instrumentality a fig of days.

Jay could person fallen successful the steep and inaccessible country wherever helium was discovered, the unit said.

Jessica Rogers, the woman of Jay Slater's brother, took to societal media yesterday to wage tribute to the teenager.

She posted a photograph of Jay with a bluish emotion heart, accompanied by the words: 'Will emotion you forever'.

Members of the section assemblage successful Lancashire person been tying bluish ribbons to posts to symbolise their enactment during the search. 

A section antheral told the BBC that 'everybody knows everybody astir here'. 'It's a shame, everybody wants him location - everybody wants an answer.'

Another section said it has 'hit the assemblage hard'. He said: 'He's a section lad and he's good known. I consciousness atrocious for the household going done this. It's deed hard.'

The hunt successful the colony of Masca, adjacent Mr Slater's last-known location, took spot successful a steep rocky area, including ravines, trails and paths.

The teen had attended the NRG euphony festival with 2 friends earlier his disappearance, and his past known determination was the Rural de Teno Park successful the northbound of the Canary Island, which was astir an 11-hour locomotion from his accommodation.

He had travelled to a£40-a-night Airbnb successful the distant colony with the 2 men, 1 of whom MailOnline revealed is simply a convicted cause trader and the different whose individuality is inactive not yet known, but the 2 men said to person rented the spot were aboriginal ruled 'not relevant' to the case.

Masca is an hour's thrust from the Papagayo nightclub successful the enactment edifice of Playa de las Americas.

LBT Global, which supports the families of British radical missing overseas, said: 'LBT Global is saddened to denote that a assemblage recovered successful Tenerife does look to beryllium that of Jay Slater.

'It is understood the assemblage was recovered adjacent to the tract of his mobile phone's past location.

'Although ceremonial recognition is yet to beryllium carried out, the assemblage was recovered with Mr Slater's possessions and clothes.

'A post-mortem introspection and forensic enquiries volition follow.

'LBT Global are supporting the household astatine this distressing clip and inquire for everyone to spend them abstraction and privateness to travel to presumption with the news.'

Supporters raised much than £54,000 to assistance money the hunt for the teenager.

Questions person been raised astir what volition hap to the wealth fixed by generous strangers aft a assemblage was recovered pursuing a period of searching.

There has been a flurry of caller donations today, with implicit £1,000 raised successful the 7 hours since the tragic quality was announced.

This brings the full to implicit £54,500 of the £30,000 people - which was reached wrong 3 weeks of the teen disappearing.

A GoFundMe spokesperson told The Sun it is successful 'regular contact' with Jay's household to enactment retired the adjacent steps for dealing with the wealth implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.

The Telegraph reported that the wealth volition beryllium utilized towards the ceremonial and repatriation costs.

The household began to retreat wealth 2 weeks agone to assistance with the search.

Jay's parent Debbie antecedently said the wealth was besides being utilized to enactment upland rescue teams, her ain accommodation and nutrient costs.

The currency was utilized to fly successful a squad of specializer rescue volunteers yesterday arsenic 5 radical and 4 dogs were deployed, with a sixth idiosyncratic joining today.

The radical were sent by the non-profit organisation Signi Zoekhonden, based successful the Netherlands, who person astir 20 years acquisition successful searching for missing people.

Signi Zoekhonden contacted Mr Slater's household aft speechmaking astir the lawsuit and promised to deploy drones arsenic portion of their search, taxable to formation support being granted by section authorities.

Jay's household endured conspiracy theories and 'awful comments' being posted online during the hunt for the apprentice bricklayer, including hoax hostage videos. 

On Sunday, Ms Duncan said she was alert of the 'vile' conspiracy theories astir her lad and claimed they were 'hindering' rescue efforts to find him.

In a connection released done British overseas missing persons foundation LBT Global, Ms Duncan said the household was 'desperate to find our beauteous boy'.

She said: 'As we attack 4 weeks of our beauteous Jay's disappearance, we cannot enactment into words the heartache we are suffering arsenic a family.

'Jay is simply a emblematic young antheral who loves life, with a agleam aboriginal up of him. This period volition people the extremity of his three-year apprenticeship with the satellite astatine his feet.

'He is loved by everyone and has a adjacent enslaved with his household and many, galore friends.'

Ms Duncan criticised the 'awful comments and conspiracy theories' posted connected societal media, which she branded 'vile' and said were 'hindering' radical trying to assistance find the teenager.

LBT Global main enforcement Matt Searle said 'horrific things are being posted online, and adjacent sent straight to household and friends' arsenic helium called for an extremity to 'the changeless barrage of conspiracy theories and chaotic speculation'.

TV detective Mark Williams-Thomas told The Mirror the household received 'two videos posted of abstracted people, meant to beryllium Jay, having been beaten up'.

One clip allegedly featured the 'We person your son', with the detective saying it was 'created for work by idiosyncratic wanting to springiness the content they had Jay held hostage'.

He explained that 'within hours' they had established that Jay was not the idiosyncratic depicted successful the videos.