Jay Slater Latest: Mother Posts Personal Message After Teenage Boy’s Body Found in Tenerife

The Tenerife Civil Guard assures that it has continued its searches discreetly, even though it publicly interrupted them more than two weeks ago.

After 13 days of searching, Spanish authorities called off the search on June 30, but said they were continuing their investigation.

However, after recovering Jay Slater’s body on Monday, they revealed that they had indeed continued a “relentless and discreet” search in which “the natural space was preserved so that it would not be filled with curious onlookers.”

Jay Slater’s body is expected to be repatriated to the UK in the coming days, according to a charity supporting his family.

Matthew Searle, Managing Director of LBT Global, said: The Independent His charity and Mr Slater’s family are “working closely” with Spanish authorities following the autopsy results.

He said: “Given that the coroner has found no indication of criminal activity, the body will be returned shortly and repatriated to the UK. We expect this to happen in the coming days.”

LBT Global, which is helping Jay Slater’s family, said it was considering returning Jay Slater’s body to Lancashire.

Chief executive Matthew Searle said he was faced with “a huge amount of paperwork, translations and logistics” in an interview with Sky News.

It has been more than four weeks since the 19-year-old left home to go on holiday with friends to the Spanish island.

When British teenager Jay Slater disappeared in northern Tenerife just under a month ago, the case captured the nation’s attention.

Helicopters, sniffer dogs and, in the final days of the search, private experts were called in, in the hope of finding the Lancashire teenager.

The search followed Mr Slater’s last known steps through dangerous valleys and treacherous ravines until a body, believed to be that of the 19-year-old, was found after four gruelling weeks.

Work is underway to repatriate Jay Slater’s body, with the family working on the documents with the help of the charity LBT Global.

The teenager’s body was discovered on Monday, and it is now hoped the family will be able to take him home to Lancashire for a funeral.

Speaking to the BBC, Matthew Searle, managing director of LBT Global, said: “There’s so much to do, and obviously when you’re in a foreign country, you don’t speak the language, you don’t have anyone around you to really help you, and you’re in the situation that Jay’s parents are in… it’s just not the sort of thing you can cope with, it’s just overwhelming.”

The process is not expected to be completed for at least another week.

As previously reported, floral tributes have been laid near where Jay Slater’s body was discovered.

His mother Debbie Duncan wrote: “To my beautiful boy. I am so sorry we never found you. I miss you so much. You will always be young and we will always miss you. I love you so much, Mom.”

And a message from his father said: “To my boy, I love you dad, always, XXXX.”

The handwritten messages are on a memorial which also includes a teddy bear wearing an England shirt.

Despite the discovery of Jay Slater’s body, questions remain.

Why was he in the national park?

Why did he choose to walk rather than wait for a bus?

Who were the men he was with?

Here we examine three questions:

Nearly £60,000 has been raised on the GoFundMe page for the search for Jay Slater.

Now that his body has been found, the BBC says it understands that part of it could be used to cover repatriation costs.

The family are now working on the necessary paperwork to repatriate the teenager’s body home with the help of the charity LBT Global.

It is hoped that insurance money will cover the cost of returning Jay’s body home – but the proceeds from the fundraiser offer another option.

Now that the family has recovered Jay Slater’s body, the process of repatriating the 19-year-old’s body home has begun.

Matthew Searle, director of the charity LBT Global, said his group was helping with documentation and translation as part of the repatriation process.

He said that although the family is devastated, the discovery of Jay’s body will bring some reconciliation.

He said: “They can start to grieve. Once the discovery is made, you have a body and you can take it home. You can grieve and then start the process of rebuilding your life.”

Matthew Searle, chief executive of the charity LBT Global, which supports the family, said that although the family now had confirmation of Jay’s death and the circumstances of his death, some questions remained unanswered.

He said The Independent that they will still “wonder” why the 19-year-old was in the ravine, off the main road, when he died, and where exactly he was heading.

These are questions the family may never find out, but they will soon be able to take his body home for a funeral.