Jay Slater, pictured with his mother Debbie Duncan, was on his first holiday abroad without parents
By Tom McArthur, BBC News
The search for British teenager Jay Slater, missing in Tenerife, has been called off, police say.
“The search operation is over. Yesterday was the final day of the search,” Tenerife’s Guardia Civil told the BBC.
The 19-year-old from Lancashire has been missing since 17 June, after he told a friend he was lost in the mountains.
Police carried out a new search on Saturday with the help of dozens of emergency workers near the village of Masca, in the Rural de Teno national park.
Since the teenager disappeared almost two weeks ago, the Spanish authorities have deployed helicopter crews, specially trained search dogs and drones.
They had hoped the operation would be a “massive search” but less than 12 members of the public had arrived at the meeting point shortly before it began, BBC reporters on the ground observed.
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