Tenerife officials say the body recovered near the spot where Jay Slater went missing was “very deteriorated” and it is unlikely full identification will happen until “next week.”
But they say documentation the dead man was carrying was the teenager’s and everything is pointing to an accidental fall.
A court in the town of Icod de los Vinos which covers the area of Masca where the body was found is in charge of the ongoing investigation.
In their first comments so far since the grim police discovery yesterday, officials representing the female investigating judge said: “In reference to the British citizen Jay Slater, the autopsy with the full identification of the body and the causes of death will take time, because the body was very deteriorated.
“But there is very little doubt about both the identity and the aetiology. The documentation he was carrying corresponds to that of Jay Slater and everything is pointing to an accidental fall, although that is unofficial pending the final reports.”
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity as is normal in Spain, said: “The court is saying the official identification will not be known until next week.”
The 29-day search for apprentice bricklayer Jay, 19, came to an end yesterday around 10am. A helicopter was called in to recover his body.
The large-scale police search in the mountains near Masca had been suspended around two weeks after he disappeared on June 17, but mountain rescue police specialists had continued to search for him daily.
Jay had disappeared after being driven to a remote Airbnb near Masca by two men after a party at a nightclub on the island on June 17.
Spanish police said they spoke to the two men and determined that they were “not relevant” to the case.
The 19-year-old had called friends on the morning of his disappearance, telling them he was “lost in the mountains, thirsty and with one per cent battery”.
He said he was planning to walk to his holiday accommodation in the south of an island – a journey that would have taken about 11 hours on foot.
Jay was reported missing shortly after when his phone died, sparking a major search by local law enforcement.
Authorities called off the operation at the end of June, though they insisted the investigation into his disappearance would continue.
After authorities halted the search operation, various volunteers stepped in to assist Slater’s heartbroken family as they continued their own efforts.
The teenager had flown out to the Spanish island with friends on June 13, attending a music festival at Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas, on the south of the island, three days later.
Jay‘s family have now said they believe the teenager “fell from a height” and died “instantly”.
Speaking to MailOnline, a spokesman for the family said they are “absolutely broken”.
The spokesman said: “They are devastated. It’s not the outcome they were hoping for. It looks as if he fell from a height so he would most likely have been killed instantly and he wasn’t there for a long time.”
He said the family appreciated that the area where he was finally found was remote and that “there is no criticism of the search”.
The expect the remains to be repatriated within a “week or so”, with post-mortems being conducted in both Tenerife and the UK, the outlet reports.
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