Jay Slater: Tenerife Airbnb host says missing teen was walking 'alone and fast'

The owner of the remote Airbnb in Tenerife where Jay Slater stayed the night before he vanished has spoken out about the morning he "walked off alone".

The major search to find Jay Slater, 19, continues on into the fifth day in a vast mountainous area around half a mile north of Masca on the Canary Island. The teen went missing on Monday morning, June 17, after last speaking to his friend Lucy on the phone, but then his mobile went dead, reports the Mirror.

Ophelia, the owner of the holiday rental Casa Abuela Tina, where Jay is understood to have stayed with two people he met after partying at the NRG festival, has stold of her "worry" for the lad. She claimed she saw Jay walking uphill alone on the morning he vanished.

Speaking outside the holiday cottage, she said: "It’s dangerous walking around here, it’s easy to lose yourself. He walked up the road when I saw him for the last time. He was alone. He was walking normally, though he was fast."

Ophelia said Jay had also asked about catching the bus from the area that morning before leaving on foot along the road - the only route through the area.

She said she was "very worried" but, in the height of the media storm, added: "We are not to blame".

The rental property is listed online as a holiday home and it is understood to have been rented by two men Jay was with the night before he went missing. Cops have since been searching in the rural mountainous areas along the north west of the island, near to the Masca village.

On Friday, the Civil Guard confirmed to the MEN that there had been "no developments" in the search for the apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire.

Officers were seen looking over the hills, with binoculars with mountain rescue teams wading through the overgrown hills. Police confirmed a search was being carried out across the wider Masca area.

It is thought that the north west of Tenerife, around the Parque Rural de Teno, was the main focus. Jay's family, including his mum Debbie, have flown out to the Spanish island to assist officers.

Debbie said she was in a 'living nightmare' and said she wished she'd told her son not to go to Tenerife before he went missing. Speaking to ITV News, she said: "I wouldn't wish this on anybody. I want my baby back. It's a nightmare, an absolute living nightmare."

Jay was last seen wearing a white T-shirt with shorts and trainers and a black bag. A fundraiser set up by Ms Law to "get Jay Slater home" has since received more than £24,000 in donations. A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesman said: "We are supporting the family of a British man who has been reported missing in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities."

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