Jay Slater died accidentally after falling from a height while in Tenerife, coroner concludes
Jay Slater, 19, disappeared while holidaying on the Spanish island with friends after he was forced to leave a nightclub because he was so drunk.
Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, was holidaying on the Spanish island and had been to the NRG music festival at the Papagayo nightclub in the resort of Playa de las Americas on 16 June 2024.
A friend said the teen had taken ecstasy pills, and possibly ketamine, along with cocaine and alcohol, during the night, before choosing to go to an Airbnb, miles away, with two men they had met on the holiday, Preston Coroner's Court was told.
The following morning he then began a 14-hour walk home through the mountains in intense heat.
After a huge search and rescue operation his body was found by a mountain rescue team almost a month later in a steep and inaccessible area, near the village of Masca on 15 July.
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