Teenager who died in Tenerife had taken drugs, inquest hears

A British teenager had taken drugs and alcohol and faced a 14-hour walk home before his disappearance sparked a four-week search in Tenerife, an inquest into his death was told.

- Josh Halliday

Jay Slater, 19, had taken ecstasy pills, cocaine, alcohol and possibly ketamine before he went back to an Airbnb with two strangers, a friend told a court yesterday. Bradley Geoghegan, who had gone on holiday with Slater, said the teenager had video-called him after he left the flat on the morning of 17 June last year.

"I said put your maps on to see how far you were," Geoghegan told Preston coroner's court. "It was like a 14-hour walk or an hour drive. I said: 'Get a taxi back', then he just goes: 'I will ring you back.'"