Revealed: Missing Jay Slater, 19, posted final picture at 7.30am from house of 'two English lads' an hour before phoning friend to say he was lost in Tenerife national park - as mother too distraught to join search

Missing Jay Slater posted a last representation astatine 7.30am an hr earlier phoning his person to accidental helium was mislaid successful a Tenerife nationalist park.

The 19-year-old posted the representation showing his manus holding a cigaret astatine the spot helium travelled to with 2 men.

It comes arsenic his parent rushed to assistance find Jay - but present can't look going to the hunt country due to the fact that she's truthful distraught.

Jay, from Lancashire, had been connected vacation connected the Spanish land erstwhile helium went missing connected Monday greeting aft deciding to locomotion backmost to his accommodation pursuing a nighttime retired aft missing a autobus - a travel expected to instrumentality astir 11 hours connected foot.

Speaking to MailOnline, Jay's parent Debbie, who arrived connected the land yesterday, said: 'We haven't had immoderate existent update but I'm waiting for quality from the British consulate.

'There was speech of a chopper going implicit the country contiguous but I can't look going up determination I'm going to enactment present successful Los Cristianos and hold for news.

'His friends and Lucy are up determination helping and I person much household coming retired today. We each conscionable privation him recovered harmless and dependable arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.'

It was Lucy who Jay had called astatine 8.15am connected Monday greeting successful his past known contact.

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The 19-year-old travelled to the Canary Islands for the three-day 'New Rave Generation' (NRG) euphony festival with Lucy Mae and different person past week.

On Sunday night, the apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle successful Lancashire, near the enactment successful South Tenerife with 'two English lads helium met astatine a party'. One of the lads had hired a car and drove them each backmost to his flat 'for a fewer beers'. 

The adjacent day, Jay acceptable disconnected connected ft having had nary luck catching a bus. He utilized his Maps connected his telephone to nonstop him but took a incorrect crook and ended up 'in the mediate of nowhere'.

He disappeared after making a telephone telephone to Lucy astatine astir 8am connected Monday, successful which helium sounded disorientated, was successful hopeless request of h2o and lone had 1 per cent artillery near connected his phone.

His past known determination was successful the mountainous country of Teno Rural Park, immoderate 10 hours' locomotion distant from his accommodation successful the confederate portion of the island. He has not been seen oregon heard from since. 

Jay's parent Debbie Duncan and member Zak flew retired to Tenerife connected Tuesday aft constabulary broke the quality of his disappearance successful the aboriginal hours of the morning.

After touching down yesterday, she said she is 'beside herself with worry'.

Speaking from the southbound of the land wherever her lad had been staying, parent Debbie said: 'I'm evidently beside myself with interest which is wherefore I've flown retired present with my eldest lad to bash thing we tin to help.

'We're conscionable praying the constabulary oregon idiosyncratic finds Jay. I cognize there's a upland rescue squad retired and a helicopter.

'Nothing's ever going to beryllium capable erstwhile your youngest son's gone missing but it sounds arsenic if the constabulary present are taking this precise earnestly and doing the champion occupation they can.'

Debbie added: 'He'd been astatine a three-day festival truthful helium would person consumed a just spot of intoxicant but Jay was snapchatting with friends earlier helium went missing and seemed precise compos mentis.

'I conscionable deliberation it was a question of him not knowing the land good capable due to the fact that it was his archetypal clip present and being a spot disorientated erstwhile it came to distances and not realising it was a 10-hour locomotion from wherever helium went missing to his vacation accommodation.

'I cognize the past spot helium spoke to his person Lucy from was successful the mountains and I deliberation the constabulary person got a much precise determination now.'

Speaking to the Manchester Evening News astir Jay's disappearance, a frightened Lucy said: 'He's gone connected a nighttime out, he's gone to a friend's house, idiosyncratic that helium has met connected holiday. 

'One of the radical helium has met has hired a car retired of here, truthful he's driven them backmost to his flat and Jay has gone determination not realising however acold distant it is.

'He's ended up retired successful the mediate of nowhere. Jay was evidently reasoning helium would beryllium capable to get location from there.

'But past successful the greeting he's acceptable disconnected walking, utilizing his Maps connected his telephone and ended up successful the mediate of mountains with thing around. 

'He rang maine saying his telephone was connected 1 per cent, helium said ''I don't cognize wherever I am, I request a portion and my telephone is astir to die''.'

Lucy said she is frantically searching for her person connected the island, having made respective reports to section constabulary successful Tenerife and made interaction with the British Embassy.

Meanwhile backmost successful Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, Jay's stepdad Andy Watson told however constabulary officers knocked connected their doorway successful the aboriginal hours of the greeting contiguous to pass them of the teen's predicament. 

'It was astir 2.30am successful the early,' Andy Watson, 63, told LancsLive. 'When the constabulary said ''the champion happening you tin bash is get yourself retired there'' we knew it was bad. This was his archetypal vacation connected his own. I'm conscionable hoping he's gone to different party.'

Andy aboriginal said successful an interrogation with the Sun: 'It's truly worrying. It feels similar a blur astatine the moment. 

'Jay is precise thoroughfare omniscient and he's nary mug but if it's it was acheronian and helium had nary interaction connected his telephone helium could person gone the incorrect mode and go much mislaid than helium was.'

Mother Debbie besides revealed she had received respective prank calls from hidden numbers claiming they had taken her lad and held him for ransom, describing the pranksters' jokes arsenic 'sickening'.

She told however twisted Brits with 'northern accents' had been phoning her with hidden numbers and claiming they had her lad captive and were keeping him due to the fact that helium owed them money.

She said: 'Some of the telephone calls I've been getting person been horrible. I conscionable don't cognize wherefore radical would privation to bash things similar this.

'I've been getting tons of prank calls. It's sickening. People ringing maine and saying they've got Jay due to the fact that helium owes them money.

'But it's not putting maine disconnected and I privation to support this successful the quality due to the fact that it's going to summation the chances of Jay being recovered harmless and good which is evidently what we're praying for.'

On Sunday, Jay had attended the last time of a the three-day NRG festival at Papagayo Tenerife formation nine successful the island's south, adjacent to his accommodation.   

After the rave helium near successful a rented car with caller friends, Lucy told Manchester Evening News. 

Lucy recounted however she received a telephone from a confused Jay connected Monday greeting immoderate clip aft 8am successful which told her that his telephone artillery was connected 1 per cent, that helium needed a portion of h2o and 'didn't cognize wherever helium was'.

He had reportedly been trying to locomotion backmost from the flat helium had stayed astatine overnight, having been incapable to drawback a bus. 

His telephone past ran flat, with his past known determination registered successful the 'Rural de Teno' park, close to the PR-TF51 hiking way supra the tiny colony of Masca.

This is simply a mountainous country that is fashionable with hikers but precise exposed and acold distant from heavy populated centres, and determination person not yet been immoderate reported sightings of the teen.

Police meantime said they were doing 'everything they could' to assistance find Jay.

Former Coronation Street prima Vicky Entwistle has shared a heart-wrenching station connected societal media, arsenic she prays for Jay's harmless return.

Ms Entwistle, who is simply a adjacent person of the family, utilized her societal media level to stock the missing poster of Jay which has details of his past location.

The histrion who played Janice Battersby successful the ITV soap said: 'My God Mother's Grandson has gone missing. To articulation the constabulary search. Hope to God they find him. Please commune for him.'

 Temperatures successful Tenerife peaked astatine 26 degrees C connected Monday. 

A Civil Guard spokeswoman successful Tenerife contiguous said the unit was moving hard to find Jay.

'A specializer Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group called the Greim person been mobilised,' she said.

'A constabulary chopper is besides retired and focusing connected the country astir the colony of Masca.

'Other exigency services including firefighters person besides been mobilised. Everything imaginable is being done to effort to find the missing man.'

A idiosyncratic astatine a visitant centre successful Masca, which has a registered colonisation of astir 90 inhabitants though lone astir 50 unrecorded determination each twelvemonth round, said: 'I've enactment the missing poster up successful lawsuit anyone recognises the lad due to the fact that a batch of radical travel done present and whitethorn person seen thing that could help.

'What I tin accidental is that I haven't seen him and nor person colleagues. The chopper was up yesterday and went crossed respective times overhead and it's been up again this greeting searching the area. But nary constabulary person been successful asking questions oregon seeking accusation and this is simply a logical spot to come.

'Most of the radical surviving present are elderly. There's astir apt lone astir 50 radical who unrecorded present each twelvemonth circular and a batch of residents are connected vacation astatine the moment.

'I truly hope... they find him soon.

Eva Maria Gracia Herrera, mayoress of the municipality of Buenavista del Norte of which Masca forms a part, added: 'Local constabulary employed by the municipality hallway are assisting but it's the Guardia Civil that are starring this hunt and probe and there's not a batch much I tin say.

'The country they're covering is simply a precise ample country that includes each the Teno Massif wherever there's mountains. The absorption country appears to beryllium Masca and Carrizales and they've got drones up trying to found wherefore this lad mightiness be.

'Masca is surrounded by mountains and what mightiness beryllium a spot unusual is wherefore he's ended up successful the Masca country but I can't speculate oregon connection immoderate hypotheses due to the fact that I haven't got up-to-date accusation astir the investigation.

'We're evidently hoping this has a blessed ending. It's not bully that a young antheral gets mislaid successful our municipality and we anticipation helium tin beryllium recovered soon and that he's good and tin beryllium reunited arsenic soon arsenic imaginable with his loved ones.'

Police reportedly dispatched a upland rescue squad to the country yesterday, but they are yet to person recovered immoderate hint of the missing teen. 

Lucy added that she has spoken to the radical with whom Jay was staying connected Sunday night. 

She said they claimed the teen had near their flat astatine astir 8am Monday greeting to 'catch a bus', but gave nary further information. 

'I've ne'er been truthful disquieted successful my life. I was determination each yesterday, a beauteous woman messaged maine connected Facebook and said she had hired a car and would thrust maine up there', Lucy added.

'We were determination each of yesterday, we were driving astir looking astir everywhere, looking successful each the nooks and crannies.'

Jay was past seen wearing a achromatic t-shirt with shorts and trainers. He was besides believed to beryllium carrying a achromatic bag.

A spokesperson for a determination exigency coordination centre said: 'The Civil Guard are coordinating this cognition due to the fact that they're liable for investigations involving missing people.

'We're acting arsenic enactment to them and they're the ones who are asking for much resources arsenic and erstwhile they consciousness they're needed.

'The Civil Guard is progressive arsenic good arsenic firefighters and Civil Protection workers who person 2 drones.

'Yesterday a determination authorities chopper was mobilised but contiguous it's a Civil Guard chopper arsenic good arsenic the Greim upland specializer team.

'The alert astir this missing youngster was received astatine 4 minutes past 9am yesterday and the hunt began soon aft and went connected into the night.

'My knowing is this antheral has subsequently been formally reported arsenic missing to the police.'

A FCDO spokesperson told MailOnline: 'We are supporting the household of a British antheral who has been reported missing successful Spain and are successful interaction with the section authorities.'