Terrain 'steep and dangerous' say volunteers

VOLUNTEERS involved in the search for Jay Slater have described the “steep and dangerous” terrain along the route he took as he attempted to walk back to his hotel in Tenerife.

- BY AMY FENTON

Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, had flown to the Canary Islands with friends Brad Geoghegan and Lucy Law last June to attend the annual NRG music festival. The 19-year-old was “thrown out” towards the end of the festival and travelled with Ayub Qassim and Steven Roccas to the Airbnb they had rented in the village of Masca.

On the morning of June 17 Jay decided to leave the holiday home and find his way back to his hotel. After being told by villagers that no bus was due for another hour or two Jay set out on foot - a decision that would cost him his life.

The walk would have taken around 14 hours in total but, when Jay's body was found four weeks later, he had likely been walking for three and-a-half hours before falling to his death into the Juan Lopez ravine, around 10km from the coast.

An inquest into Jay’s death last Wednesday heard from one of the volunteers involved in the search.