suzyjackson
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Very sad but expected, thank goodness for the family to know what's happened
Close to his last phone ping the whole time thoughThe body was found in a very inaccessible part of the island.
Spanish police believe this man had fallen down a chasm or a drop in the island - that is what made it so difficult to find the body.
The area is full of drops and has thick vegetation.
Drones, sniffer dogs and personnel were used on the ground in the search and we had been led to believe it looked as if it was going to be impossible to find the missing you Briton due to the difficult terrain.
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Jay Slater's mother says 'our hearts are broken' after death confirmed
The 19-year-old's injuries were "consistent with a fall in a rocky area", the Canary Islands Higher Court of Justice says.www.bbc.co.uk
Drones won't be able to see something entiely covered by vegetation which I'm assuming Jay was in the same way that human searchers can easily miss something. It's been said more than once in the threads that there are multiple previous cases of bodies not being found initially when the later on being found on a further search very near to earlier ones.Close to his last phone ping the whole time thoughYou would think they would have drones down the inaccessible areas from the start. I dont know. Maybe he was too hidden. Very sad. RIP young man.
why only start up on the day the specialists were going in though?So it would seem the announcement that they were abandoning the search was something of a ruse by the Spanish police, to enable them to carry on searching without all the media hoo-har.
“The Civil Guard mountain rescue and intervention unit has found, after 29 days of non-stop searching, the body of a young man in the Masca area," it says.
"Given the difficulties of the case, the discovery has been possible thanks to the constant and discreet search carried out by the Civil Guard for the last 29 days during which care was taken to ensure curious onlookers did not fill the area.
BBC News - Jay Slater: Police find remains during search for British teenager in Tenerife
Jay Slater: Police find remains during search for British teenager in Tenerife - BBC News