Heartbroken friend of missing teenager Jay Slater says 'we've got to live in hope' as desperate search in Tenerife continues
22.06.2024 - 21:37
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The heartbroken family friend to missing teenager Jay Slater has said 'we have to live in hope' as the desperate search in the mountains of Tenerife continues.
Rachel Hargreaves, who flew out to the Spanish island alongside Jay's mum Debbie Duncan and other members of the family earlier this week and has been providing regular updates to the Facebook group dedicated to finding the teenager, has since spoken out on the sixth day of the challenging rescue efforts.
The 19-year-old, from Lancashire, vanished on Monday morning (June 17). He had been to the NRG festival the night before with friends. It is reported that he then travelled back to the rural village of Masca with others he met, staying in a remote Airbnb holiday rental, before ‘walking off into the mountains on foot’.
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"We've got to live in hope haven't we," she said, speaking from the resort of Los Cristianos, in Tenerife "You can't give up on anything can you really. We're here and we are staying until we've got an outcome."
Emergency workers, including the Civil Guard, mountain rescue team and fire crews, are searching a 30-kilometre area in hopes to find the 19-year-old, who has not been heard from since Monday.
Civil Defence search teams lifted the lid on the specific rural areas where the efforts are being focused, all in the vicinity of the Parque Rural de Teno nature reserve, the area where Jay was reported missing. They include a ravine around 100 metres below the rental property where Jay was last seen, as well as in mountains between Masca and Las Portelas.
Click here to see a map of the exact areas being