Unseen pictures of missing Jay Slater shared by pal Lucy Law as she returns to UK from Tenerife

Previously unseen pictures of missing Jay Slater have been shared by his pal Lucy Law after she returned to the UK. Lucy 18, flew to Tenerife with Jay, 19, and their mutual friend Brad Hargreaves last month for the New Rave Generation (NRG) festival.

She reported Jay missing on Monday, June 17, and had remained on the island during the extensive search effort. However, she returned home at the weekend after Spanish officials called off the official rescue efforts.

And she has now shared the new snaps showing Jay smiling with his close friends before he disappeared, the Mirror reports. The five new pictures, which she has posted to Instagram, show the trainee bricklayer smiling ear-to-ear and hanging out at events.

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He can be seen posing with both Lucy and other friends, mostly in bars and pubs. One of the photos shows Jay standing with a group bathed in blue light as they enjoy what appears to be a rave.

A couple show just Jay and Lucy, both standing and sitting next to one another, with the word "cute" stamped across their faces as they pose for the camera.

Jay, Lucy and Brad had attended a rave at Papagayo nightclub at which he was pictured the day before he went missing. She returned to their shared holiday accommodation with Brad while Jay joined two other men and travelled to a property to the island's north, near the village of Masca.

When he didn't return, she reported him missing and became involved in the search effort as his family arrived on the Spanish island.

Comprehensive search efforts launched over the following two weeks by Spain's Guardia Civil failed to turn up any sign of the apprentice bricklayer, and the 18-year-old has since returned home.

She shared the collection of photos on Instagram over the weekend, with each snap labelled with a blue love heart emoji, used online to signify friendship.

When posting another picture earlier this month, she broke her silence on the missing persons case, and described the situation as "weird".

She said: "There's something weird going on. It is suspicious. In two days you're telling me someone's not seen him. There's a restaurant 10 minutes away that he would have seen or walked past. It's suspicious and it's weird."

She added: "Fair enough it didn't open for another two hours but if that were me I would have sat and waited at the restaurant till it opened.

As soon as it opened I would have said, 'Please can you put my phone on charge' and then I would have rung someone, I would have rung a taxi."