Pictured: British hiker, 51, found by search teams hunting Jay Slater - as he insists he 'didn't need saving' from ravine and accuses Tenerife police of trying to 'show how good they are'

A British hiker recovered by hunt teams hunting missing raver Jay Slater connected the Spanish land of Tenerife has insisted helium 'didn't request rescuing' aft being tracked down by MailOnline.

David Larkin, 51, was discovered by constabulary and upland rescue teams connected Friday arsenic they scoured a distant gorge for Jay, 19, who hasn't been seen for much than a week.

Posting connected Facebook, section constabulary described however they had 'successfully' recovered Mr Larkin aft locals reported seeing him wandering into mountains a mile from wherever they were looking for the teenager.

The country astir Masca has been a hive of enactment since Jay went missing connected June 17 with a immense country of the Parque Rural de Teno being searched utilizing helicopters, drones and dogs.

It was during these searches that according to section authorities, a 'tired and disorientated' Mr Larkin was recovered by hunt teams and 'helped retired of the ravine' successful the Asomada Canyon. 

But Mr Larkin said:' I tin archer you now; I wasn't bushed and I wasn't disoriented, and I didn't request rescuing.

'I deliberation determination was a batch mislaid successful translation erstwhile they saw him and I explained to them I had water, I was wearing layers, I had my rucksack with nutrient and I'm an experienced hiker.

'I went into the canyon and I saw the helicopters looking and thought they were looking for the lad but I didn't for 1 infinitesimal deliberation they would extremity up picking maine up.

'I deliberation they privation to amusement however bully they are, but I surely didn't saving. I consciousness truthful atrocious for the boy's household and anticipation he's recovered soon.

'I'm really embarrassed astir this, I had my poles and I cognize what I'm doing and I knew that if it could get windy I would instrumentality structure successful a cave.

'I cognize these trails, I've been coming present for years, truthful I cognize what I'm doing.'

Mr Larkin, who is primitively from Northern Ireland but lives successful Scotland, is simply a erstwhile manager of a lodging task based successful Hackney, and has worked with the capital's Fijian community.

He arrived successful Tenerife earlier his period and has based himself successful a distant one-bedroom hut connected the borderline of a cliff portion going connected treks crossed the parkland and was yet taken backmost by constabulary from Buenavista del Norte, successful bluish Tenerife.

Mr Larkin added:' It truly is stunningly beauteous circular present and I cognize the spot good due to the fact that I've been coming present truthful often.

'You person to dainty Tenerife with respect, arsenic it tin beryllium rather isolated but I cognize what I'm doing.

'The upland rescue radical took my representation and past dropped maine off, and I'm precise grateful but I didn't request helping and to beryllium honorable it extended my day.

'I did spell successful done a hard path, and the way isn't that good marked but I bash cognize the way, I managed it and erstwhile they came towards maine I did explicate I was ok.

'It should person been a two-hour way and I near conscionable aft luncheon but didn't get backmost until astir 7pm due to the fact that they took maine the agelong way.

'I'm dilatory and I hike for solitude, but I was fine, I instrumentality my clip and they ended up rushing maine astatine a gait I recovered uncomfortable.

'Like I said I had each the instrumentality and I deliberation the connection obstruction was an contented and past the penny dropped they were looking for the missing boy.

'I don't privation to look ungrateful, and I thanked them for their interest but I was fine.'

Police said that erstwhile the 51-year-old antheral failed to instrumentality to the commencement constituent of his locomotion aft respective hours, locals alerted upland rescue teams who were 'at those moments successful the hunt for the missing young man, Jay Slater'.

A spokesperson for the Policia Local Buenavista del Norte said the hiker was recovered successful a 'difficult' country that is 'not suitable for travel' connected Friday, adding: 'Tired and disoriented, helium was located by the agents and the rescue squad who helped him get retired of the ravine.

'We privation to convey these neighbours for giving alert to this concern due to the fact that owed to the trouble and deficiency of connection successful the area, this hiker would not person managed to get retired by his ain means without the assistance received.'

Meanwhile, Jay, an apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished connected Tenerife past Monday aft going backmost to an Airbnb with 2 British men helium had met portion partying connected the past nighttime of the three-day NRG euphony festival. 

The past confirmed sighting of Jay was successful the colony of Masca astatine astir 8am by a pistillate who had told him the autobus backmost to his accommodation was owed astatine 10am erstwhile helium asked. She saw him acceptable disconnected connected ft for a travel and aboriginal drove past him 'walking fast'. 

The teen was last heard from astatine astir 8.30am erstwhile helium called his person Lucy Mae Law to accidental helium was walking backmost to his accommodation aft missing the bus. He told her helium was 'lost successful the mountains with 1 per cent artillery and nary water'.

The locomotion from wherever Jay's telephone past pinged successful the nationalist parkland to his accommodation would person taken astir 11 hours connected foot. 

He has not been seen oregon heard from since but hopes were raised yesterday by a caller CCTV representation of what the household judge could beryllium Jay successful Santiago de Teide past Monday astatine astir 6pm - astir 10 hours connected from his phone's past unrecorded location.

The grainy CCTV is taken adjacent to a church, San Fernando Rey, wherever Jay's parent told MailOnline connected Saturday that a antheral has travel guardant to accidental helium saw idiosyncratic matching her son's statement sitting connected a seat with 2 men.

The sighting has not been confirmed by section police, who accidental 'nothing has been ruled retired and thing has been ruled in', arsenic they proceed to absorption their efforts connected a ravine adjacent wherever helium was past seen. 

A root adjacent to the household said: 'It looks similar him and is surely a man's signifier but we conscionable don't know. It was taken adjacent the religion wherever a witnesser says helium saw him truthful we person to support hoping.'

The religion of San Fernando Rey is astir 15 miles from the rave venue Jay was partying astatine and 3.5 miles from wherever his mobile telephone past pinged successful the rugged Rural de Teno park, where hunt efforts person been concentrated.

It comes arsenic Jay's begetter accused the Spanish constabulary of keeping the household successful the acheronian implicit the hunt for the missing British teenager.

Warren Slater said that though immoderate officers had been 'brilliant', helium was becoming progressively frustrated by the deficiency of connection from others arsenic helium desperately tries to find his 19-year-old son.

'Nobody's told us,' helium told reporters. 'The upland constabulary [have been] brilliant... but I don't cognize however the different constabulary [force] works.

'They could beryllium doing everything but if they are doing [something], they're not telling america what they're doing, if you recognize what I'm saying.'

Choking backmost tears arsenic helium investigated a caller imaginable CCTV sighting of Jay, helium aboriginal told Sky News: 'I'm his dad, I'm expected to beryllium capable to bash thing for him.' 

It comes arsenic Jay's parent says she's astatine her wits' extremity with interest - arsenic his friends flew to Tenerife to assistance with the hunt for him.

Speaking arsenic the hunt for the apprentice bricklayer entered its ninth day, Debbie Duncan revealed however among those who had travelled to the Spanish vacation land was her son's erstwhile girlfriend, Jessica Ingham.

School concern serviceman Debbie, 55, told MailOnline past night: 'It's been a week present and it's been awful. I've hardly slept and I'm astatine my wits' end.

'The Spanish constabulary are doing a bully occupation and we are getting updated from the consulate truthful we conscionable enactment our religion successful them.

'I cognize radical successful the UK person travel guardant arsenic good who were astatine the festival and they are giving details of what they cognize but I'm not being told astir that.

'Jay's precise bully friends from location person besides been implicit and person enactment up posters. They are bully kids and similar maine conscionable privation him home.'

The friends who were blessed to talk to the MailOnline besides lashed furiously astatine online speculation and said: 'Imagine if helium was your lad oregon brother, deliberation astir his mediocre mum.'

Despite an extended hunt by constabulary and upland rescue teams with dogs, drones and a chopper determination has been nary hint since helium vanished pursuing a rave successful Playa de las Americas successful confederate Tenerife.

MailOnline has spoken to 4 of his closest pals – including Jessica - aft they flew retired to the Spanish land to assistance look for him and enactment his frantic parent and each travelled from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire.

The radical spent the play combing the harsh and unforgiving terrain of the Masca gorge wherever his mobile telephone 'pinged' for the past clip 7 days agone aft helium had near a rave with 2 enigma men.

Engineer Jessica, 19, said: 'What truly gets maine is each these online detectives who person got thing amended to bash than dispersed malicious rumours and gossip, it's not helping the situation.

'People request to retrieve helium is simply a missing person, and his parent is perfectly sick with interest and she doesn't request to work each kinds of rubbish that are being written astir him.

'It's truly atrocious and these keyboard warriors request to instrumentality a measurement backmost and deliberation astir however Debbie is feeling and ideate if it was their lad oregon member that was missing, immoderate radical person been truly hurtful.

'He's my ex fellow but we inactive support successful interaction and helium means a batch not conscionable to maine but each of us.'

Sources told MailOnline that Debbie was successful specified a authorities she was 'on the verge of a breakdown' aft 9 days with nary quality and nary leads astir her lad who disappeared aft a rave aft enactment astatine Playa de las Americas successful southbound Tenerife.

Jay's champion person warehouse idiosyncratic James Currie, 19, said: 'We person conscionable got to support connected hoping that helium is retired determination somewhere. We can't springiness up connected him. It's arsenic if a portion of america is missing.

'We came retired present to look for Jay due to the fact that helium is our friend, we've known him since superior school, helium is our mate and he's 1 of us.

'But we are besides retired present to enactment Debbie and his dada and brother. They are successful pieces, and they don't request to work immoderate of this chaotic speculation that's retired there.

'He's my champion friend. I emotion him to bits, we each bash and I tin archer you if it was 1 of america missing helium would beryllium retired determination looking for us.

'This benignant of happening doesn't hap to a lad from Lancashire. It's similar thing from Netflix. He's connected his archetypal vacation with his friends and helium goes missing, it conscionable doesn't marque sense.'

Bartender Aaliya Duxbury, 19, said: 'We each conscionable privation him location arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. He is determination connected this land and that's wherefore we came retired present to find him.

'James is right, a portion of america is missing, helium makes everyone grin and is specified a blessed guy, we couldn't conscionable enactment astatine location and bash nothing. He has to travel location helium conscionable has to.

'It's conscionable not the aforesaid wrong him. It conscionable doesn't look real, it's conscionable a nightmare that we privation to extremity and arsenic the others accidental we don't request each this atrocious speculation.

'These radical request to amusement immoderate empathy and compassion, a idiosyncratic is missing and his mum is disquieted sick.'

All 4 spent hours searching the Masca gorge, looking successful abandoned shepherd huts and joined Jay's begetter Warren, 58, and his member Zak, 24, erstwhile they paid an affectional sojourn to the scene.

Petrol presumption attendant Saul Wilkin, 19, said: 'That was pugnacious to watch. They were successful pieces, crying and it acceptable america each disconnected arsenic good erstwhile we were up there.

'Seeing the terrain for ourselves we realised conscionable however harsh it is up determination but we person to support hoping that helium is retired determination somewhere.

'The spot is covered successful cactus and the paths are slippery and rocky, we were falling erstwhile we were up determination and to deliberation our person is up determination is conscionable truthful upsetting.'

When asked astir the anticipation of Jay being taken, Jessica instantly said: 'I'm convinced of it. I don't spot however determination has been nary motion of him. It makes maine deliberation idiosyncratic has him.

'The country is engaged with hikers and holidaymakers, it's wide daylight and truthful idiosyncratic would person seen him but they haven't truthful it tin lone mean idiosyncratic has him.

'I don't spot wherefore helium would person travel disconnected the roadworthy and walked into the ravine it doesn't marque consciousness and Jay would ne'er fto his mobile spell down to 1 percent.

'There are things that don't adhd up but helium knows what he's doing and helium wouldn't spell wandering disconnected successful the mountains with nary artillery connected his phone.

'I truly bash deliberation he's been taken and whoever has him needs to fto him spell and get location to his household and friends. We miss him and emotion him to bits.'

Jessica added: 'When we met Debbie she was devastated and she gave america each a large hug and it made america consciousness amended and her arsenic we were each together.

'But nary parent should person to spell done what she is going through. It's not just connected her and it wouldn't beryllium just connected anyone successful that position.

'This was his archetypal overseas holiday, helium should beryllium backmost location astatine enactment present with his friends, it's conscionable awful.'

It emerged connected Monday that Spanish constabulary are investigating Jay's inheritance to find whether it is 'relevant' to his disappearance.

Detectives connected the vacation land are trying to find whether Jay's disappearance is linked to his transgression past aft the Spanish property revealed that helium was antecedently progressive successful a machete onslaught that near a antheral warring for his life.

Jay was portion of an 8 beardown pack who divided the skull of Tom Hilton aft helium was attacked with a machete, play clubs and an axe.

Mr Hilton was near with injuries to his caput which near his skull exposed arsenic good arsenic wounds to his shoulders and legs successful the 2021 onslaught erstwhile helium was 17 successful Rishton, Lancashire.

In tribunal helium described the pack arsenic a 'pack of wolves' and helium was forced to tally for his beingness done adjacent woods earlier being acceptable upon.

Details of the onslaught person been posted connected societal media sites appealing for assistance successful tracking Jay down and galore person described his disappearance arsenic 'karma'.

But successful a Facebook connection the gang's victim, Mr Hilton said: 'Whoever is penning connected these TikToks, springiness it a rest. This young lad's missing and his family's heartbroken.

'Put yourself successful their shoes. Stop talking nonsense connected societal and get this lad found, mentioning my sanction each this and that.

'Have immoderate respect and assistance find this lad and get him backmost to his family.'

A study of the onslaught successful the Manchester Evening News from past August describes however passim the lawsuit each 8 laughed and joked with Judge Philip Parry telling Preston Crown Court they had recovered the proceedings 'amusing'.

Passing condemnation Judge Parry said: 'Many of you person recovered these proceedings amusing passim the proceedings and yesterday and today, showing disrespect to the court.

'I anticipation for the involvement of each your families, the nationalist and the radical who person offered you jobs and apprenticeships and the benignant that you each turn up.

'Every 1 of you deserves to beryllium sent to younker detention. 

'Some of you played a much progressive relation successful the convulsive upset than others, immoderate of you carried weapons, immoderate wore balaclavas but the seriousness of the this is the radical quality of it.

'As a radical you were each much threatening than you would person been arsenic individuals.'

He added that if they had been convicted of the much superior complaint of conception 18 wounding, they would each person gone to younker custody.

However, helium said helium took the rehabilitative attack erstwhile sentencing them for convulsive upset and further offences including witnesser intimidation, attempted robbery and conspiracy to proviso people A drugs.

Jay was fixed an 18-month assemblage bid with 25 days rehabilitation activities and 150 hours unpaid enactment for convulsive upset - and helium went connected vacation to Tenerife past week aft completing astir of his sentence.

Details of his transgression past were reported by El Dia, a section paper for the Canary Islands.

The header work 'The past of the young British antheral who disappeared successful Tenerife. Slater bushed up a teen on with 7 different people.'

They went connected to picture successful item the tribunal lawsuit adding that helium had a 'black people successful his past'.

Jay's condemnation has led a fig of amateur sleuths and psychics dispersed wild, mendacious and adjacent malicious theories astir his disappearance connected societal media - including the sick thought that helium has faked his disappearance to pouch the GoFundMe cash.

Some cruel trolls person adjacent made the unfounded assertion that helium has been kidnapped aft a drugs woody went incorrect with transgression enforcers holding him to wage backmost the debt. 

Others person alleged that helium mislaid the drugs oregon pocketed the wealth himself and is lying debased until the vigor dies down.

The speculation was fuelled when, soon aft helium vanished, Jay's mother, schoolhouse concern serviceman Debbie Duncan, 55, was sent a menacing Snapchat connection that read: 'Kiss goodbye to your boy, you're ne'er going to spot him again, helium owes maine a batch of money.' 

Spanish constabulary accidental they are not 'ruling thing out' – and a root told MailOnline: 'In cases of missing radical it's earthy to analyse their inheritance successful lawsuit it's applicable to the hunt.

'This lawsuit is antithetic arsenic it's been a week and determination has been nary sighting oregon leads connected him astatine each and searches person thrown up nary clues.

'We person to see the anticipation of thing other happening.'

His parent Debbie is convinced helium has been 'taken' and appealed to anyone who was holding him to fto him go.

She said: 'What happened successful tribunal is irrelevant, helium was successful the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time. What matters much than thing is that my lad is missing and we request to find him.'

Jay is known to person near an extremity of festival afterparty astatine astir 5am and headed disconnected to the agrarian colony of Masca, 19 miles from Playa des Los Americas successful southbound Tenerife, with 2 British men.

From determination helium sent Lucy and his parent 2 pictures connected Snapchat showing him extracurricular the achromatic washed 2 chamber workplace location and helium said helium was going to effort and marque an 11 hr locomotion backmost aft missing the bus.

The 2 men who hired the Airbnb person been questioned by Spanish constabulary but person since returned to Britain, overmuch to the amazement of household and friends.

Lucy told MailOnline that erstwhile she tracked the location down and asked the men wherever Jay was they seemed 'startled and surprised' that she had recovered them and told her helium had near to effort and drawback autobus back.

On Saturday Lucy - who acceptable up the GoFundMe leafage for Jay asking for the circumstantial sum of £30,000 - was questioned astatine magnitude by constabulary though determination is nary proposition that she has immoderate engagement successful his disappearance. 

However, questions person been raised astir the donations and wherever precisely they are going - particularly arsenic Debbie has been added and past removed arsenic a beneficiary respective times since the leafage was opened past Thursday.

One pistillate named arsenic Charlotte C wrote: 'Unfortunately I person to donate the minimum of £5 successful bid to permission a comment. However, I consciousness this is important to item the concerns regarding this GoFundMe.

'It is indispensable that each funds going towards Jay Slater's GoFundMe leafage are enactment connected clasp until further details oregon grounds from the constabulary are released and pending a thorough and meticulous investigation.'

Another donor Andy S, who besides contributed £5, said: 'I echo Charlotte C's concerns. I person raised these connected galore platforms (as person many, galore others) and nary enactment has been taken.

'I recognize that proposal whitethorn person been fixed not to interact but determination has not been 1 update connected this GFM to code specified concerns. It is not hard to update the bio.

'The media person adjacent highlighted the public's concerns successful this respect. Common consciousness tells maine that Organisers/Beneficiaries would person responded to this connected this level astatine least.

'The wide nationalist person raised astir £30k for this origin which has evidently touched the nation. Therefore, please, delight code the points raised. My thoughts stay with those concerned.'

Meanwhile successful a Facebook station aboriginal connected Monday Debbie addressed the concerns implicit the GoFundMe Page acceptable up for him arsenic which has attracted much than £32,000 successful donations.

She said: 'I truly americium saddened by each your comments. You look to beryllium truthful bothered astir this GoFundMe page. I truly anticipation I americium not taking my lad location successful a assemblage bag.

'The funds are not released and won't beryllium if not needed. I truly cannot judge the British nationalist are not supporting maine successful trying to find Jay.

'This whitethorn hap to immoderate of you 1 day. Very fto down by you all.'

She aboriginal updated the station and said: 'Update!! Sorry that you person taken this the incorrect way. I americium overwhelmed with the generosity.

'What I meant was VERBAL support. I truly anticipation I don't request this money. If it's not needed it each gets refunded to the radical who truly did care.'

Search teams successful Tenerife narrowed their efforts implicit the play connected tiny buildings adjacent to wherever his telephone past pinged.

Officers from the Guardia Civil successful the Canary Islands could beryllium seen circling 2 structures astatine the bottommost of a ravine successful Rural de Teno Park connected Sunday.

Efforts appeared to beryllium solely focused connected the 1 country aft days of searches successful the colony of Masca and the surrounding landscape.

The efforts travel aft the teenager's parent issued a nonstop plea to her missing son, saying: 'We conscionable request you home.'

Debbie Duncan said she had 'not slept' since the 19-year-old disappeared.

Mr Slater was past seen wearing a achromatic T-shirt with shorts and trainers, and carrying a achromatic bag.