A NEW image has been released of Jay Slater just hours before he vanished in Tenerife on Monday.
The photograph shows Jay, 19, at a rave on Sunday evening which he left with two new friends before disappearing the next day.
Jay, an apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire, flew out to the holiday island with two friends for the NRG festival.
He went to the closing night Sunday with his pals Lucy and Brad, but left with two men he met that day to continue the evening at their accommodation.
Jay then made a frantic phone call on Monday to friend Lucy Law and told her he was stranded in the “middle of nowhere”.
The Brit teen has not been heard from or seen since, with search crews desperately hunting through the mountainous region of northern Tenerife.
Rescue crews on Friday focused their efforts around the 2,000ft Masca ravine close to Jay’s last known location – the desolate Teno Nature Reserve.
The bombshell new image – which shows Jay wading through a packed dance floor – comes after footage of him from the same night.
Video showed him walking through the club with sunglasses propped on his head as music blared out.
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Rescue efforts turned their focus to an area known locally as “the badlands” on Friday.
Pictures from the scene show cops, firefighters, volunteers and sniffer dogs scanning the desolate Teno Nature Reserve, Jay’s last known location.
Locals and experts have warned of the treacherous conditions in the area – where the air is “thin”, temperatures change rapidly and the mountains drop sharply to the water below.
Jay’s mum Debbie today slammed the investigation into her son’s disappearance for not allowing British cops to contribute.
On Friday Lancashire Constabulary offered to help Spain’s Guardia Civil in their efforts to find the teenager.
But local police rejected the bid and insisted they have the “resources” required to find him.
The mum also told The Guardian she spent eight hours in a police station as they revealed plans for ramping up the rescue effort.
Debbie has shared fears something “untoward” has happened to her son after a bombshell new sighting was passed onto cops on Saturday.
Speaking from Tenerife, the worried mum said her son may have been spotted with two men some ten hours after he was last seen on Monday morning.
Debbie told Mail Online: “Someone has come forward to say they saw someone who they thought was Jay walking back down the road sat on a bench.
“He was with two men looking a bit worse for wear, and they were by a church, this guy has come forward and told the police about it and they are looking into it.
“We don’t know if it was Jay for sure, but it’s a start.”
Debbie, 55, has been in Tenerife since Tuesday helping with the massive police search for her 19-year-old son.
The fresh sighting pinpoints Jay’s possible movements to 6pm on Monday – some 10 hours after his missing persons report was filed.
