HandoutA body found in Tenerife has been identified as missing British teenager Jay Slater.
The Canary Islands Higher Court of Justice confirmed that the body found on Monday belonged to the 19-year-old who had been missing on the island for 29 days.
His death was caused “by trauma consistent with a fall in a rocky area”, the Spanish court said.
Charity LBT Global said remains were found with the 19-year-old’s clothes and possessions near his last known location on Monday.
Members of a mountain rescue team from the Spanish Civil Guard discovered the body near the village of Masca.
The Spanish Civil Guard released video footage of rescuers climbing rock faces and battling through scrub as they carried out the search.
Part of the clip shows two members of the search team being winched out of the area by helicopter after the body had been found and recovered.
Mr Slater had attended the NRG music festival with two friends before his disappearance, and his last known location was the Rural de Teno Park in the north of the Canary Island, which was about an 11-hour walk from his accommodation.
He had travelled to an Airbnb in Masca after a night out, but the two men said to have rented the property were later ruled “not relevant” to the case.
Spanish police called off the search for the apprentice bricklayer at the end of June after helicopters, drones and search dogs were deployed to find him.
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