Jay Slater latest: body found in search for missing British teenager

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A body has been found in the search for missing Brit Jay Slater in Tenerife, the Spanish police said today. Possessions and clothes belonging to the teenager were found alongside the body, a leading missing persons organisation has claimed.

A spokesman for the Guardia Civil explained that "everything is pointing" to it being Jay and suggested he had suffered an accident in the village where he was discovered.They said: “After 29 constant days of searching the lifeless body of the young man has been found in the Masca area.The discovery has been possible thanks to the tireless and discreet search carried out by the Civil Guard over these 29 days. “Everything is pointing to the body being that of the young British man who disappeared on June 17, pending full identification.

Initial inquiries are pointing to him having suffered an accident/fall in the area where he was found." The discovery came after it was revealed specialist sniffer dogs were being brought to the scene who would be able to find Jay "dead or alive".

Missing persons organisation LBT Global said today: "Although formal identification is yet to be carried out, the body was found with Mr Slater’s possessions and clothes. "A post mortem and forensic enquiries will follow.