Jay Slater's friend Lucy Mae Law has spoken out about the teen's disappearance, 18 days after he vanished in Tenerife.
The 19-year-old boy from Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn, Lancashire, has been missing since June 17.
Slater and his friends flew out to the Spanish island and attended a rave at Papagayo nightclub on June 16 during the NRG music festival.
He disappeared the next morning in Rural de Teno park, a sparse parkland area on the north-west of the island.
According to reports, on June 17, Slater shared a Snapchat image showing him at a farmhouse Airbnb around 7:30AM. He then called Lucy at 8:15AM to tell her that he was lost, thirsty, and that his phone battery was critically low.
Slater also told Lucy he was going to attempt to walk back to their shared accommodation - a journey that would take roughly 10 hours.
After he was reported missing, a mammoth hunt with cops, mountain rescue, firefighters, volunteers, drones, sniffer dogs, and a helicopter was quickly launched.
Lucy previously described the situation as "weird" and 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," per The Mirror.
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"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," she continued. "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."
After nearly three weeks, Lucy broke her silence to share a new picture of the missing teenager.
In the heartbreaking picture, the pair are seen sitting together posing for a selfie. It was posted along with a crying face and blue heart emoji.
Lucy previously set up a GoFundMe to raise money for Jay's family, now reaching almost £50,000.
Lucy's photo comes after the man who was with Slater at an Airbnb the night before he disappeared spoke out.
The missing teen reportedly took a car journey with two British men he had met at the resort of Playa de las Américas to their Airbnb, located 19 miles away from the beach club in the village of Masca. The farmhouse, called Casa Abuela Tina, was where he was last seen.
One of the men who stayed with Slater at the Airbnb, Ayub Qassim, spoke to Daily Mail, and said: “He came to my Airbnb alive and he left my Airbnb alive.”
The 31-year-old - who booked the Airbnb under the name Ayub Abdul, was already interviewed by Spanish police along with another man.
"I let the geezer stay at mine because he had nowhere else to go, his friends had all left him. I know Jay, through friends, I'm not going to bring someone back to mine if I don't know them," he said.
"I'm doing the geezer a favor and now my face is all over the news. It's a bit mental. I haven't even done anything," he added, denying having any arguments with Slater.
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On Sunday (June 30), the Spanish Civil Guard revealed that the search for Jay around the Rural de Teno Park area had come to an end, but that the case remains open.
Despite the disheartening update, Jay's loved ones have vowed to "continue to search" for the teenager.
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