The mother of Jay Slater has paid tribute to her “beautiful boy” after his body was found in Tenerife.
The British teenager went missing on the Spanish island on 17 June, sparking a near-month long search that resulted in a body being found on Monday.
A court spokesperson in Tenerife said fingerprints examined in a post-mortem had confirmed the remains were that of Mr Slater.
The multiple injuries suffered were compatible with a fall from a cliff, the spokesperson added.
In a statement, Mr Slater’s mother Debbie Duncan – who flew to Tenerife to search for him – said: “I just can’t believe this could happen to my beautiful boy. Our hearts are broken.”
Matthew Searle, from LBT Global – a British overseas missing persons charity working with the Slater family – said he was talking to Ms Duncan at the time she received the news and she and her family were “devastated”.
“I just can’t believe it – We’re here with the Embassy staff waiting for an update and now it’s come – the worst news,” she said.
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Where was Jay Slater found?
Mr Slater was last heard from on the morning of 17 June after setting off to walk from a northern area of Tenerife back to his holiday accommodation in the south – a journey of about 11 hours.
At 8.30am that day, the 19-year-old called his friend Lucy Law, telling her he had missed a bus, his phone battery was on 1%, and he had cut his leg on a cactus.
Mr Slater had flown out to the Spanish island with friends four days before to attend a music festival at Papagayo nightclub in the southern resort of Playa de las Americas.
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