Jay Slater missing updates LATEST: Friends of British teenager who vanished in Tenerife 72 hours ago issue plea for search party as hunt resumes in Spanish national park

The mother of missing British teenager Jay Slater claims she has received a sick Snapchat message from trolls following her son’s disappearance.

The message is said to have read: ‘Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.’

Read John James’s report here:

A friend of the missing teeanger Jay Slater told Sky News he had ‘cut his leg on a cactus’ and was directed to a bus stop as he attempted to return to his accommodation.

Lucy Law, who flew with Jay for the NRG music festival, said the apprentice bricklayer rang her on Monday to say he needed water and had cut his leg.

She told Sky News that Jay was directed to a bus stop after he knocked on the door of a house next to mountains which he had posted on social media.

Speaking to Sky News, she said

We managed to find the house. I knocked on the door and there were two people there.

They told me he’d spoken to the next door neighbours and they’d told him there was a bus every 10 minutes back down to Los Cristianos.

The bus stop was right next to the house. So obviously if he’d gone to get the bus he wouldn’t have got lost because it [the stop] was visible from the front door.

It has now been 72 hours since friends of Jay Slater last heard from him after his phone died in a national park in Tenerife, hours away from his accommodation on the island.

Here’s our graphic to explain his last known movements before the 19-year-old was reported missing to police.

Morning, if you’re just joining us this morning, here’s what we know about the search for Jay Slater, the British teenager who has gone missing in Tenerife.

• The hunt for Jay entered its fourth day this morning as searches resume in the mountainous Rural de Teno national park.
• Friends have appealed for people to join them as it reaches three days from the last time they heard from the 19-year-old from Lancashire.
• A message on Facebook said: ‘We will be up there again first thing, however a search party is going to be necessary to search everywhere as the area is very big. If you can help, please do, we need to get him home.’
• Jay flew to Tenerife with friends to attend the for the NRG music festival but last made contact on Monday morning when he told them he was 10 hours away from their accommodation but needed water and had 1% battery life on his phone
• His mother Debbie Duncan issued a tearful plea for his return last night as she told ITN, ‘It’s a nightmare. It’s just an absolute living nightmare.’

We will continue to bring you the latest updates from throughout the day.

Jay Slater’s mother issued a tearful plea for people to find her son as the chaotic search to track him down entered its fourth day.

It’s a nightmare. It’s just an absolute living nightmare. It’s like a dream – it’s like it’s not happening, it really is. I wouldn’t wish this on anybody.

I just want my baby back. Please, just anybody who can help just look for him. There’s a massive area up there, massive. It’s over 48 hours now since he last had any contact with anybody.

Friends of Jay Slater have today appealed for a search party to help find the missing teenager who hasn’t been seen or heard of for 72 hours.

In an update posted on a Facebook group, his friend Lucy wrote:

Still no updates, when it reaches 8:30am it’s been 3 days😢 tomorrow, we need as many people as possible up there searching for him please. We will be up there again first thing, however a search party is going to be necessary to search everywhere as the area is very big. If you can help, please do, we need to get him home.

Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage as the search for missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife.

Jay has not been seen or heard from since he called a friend on Monday morning to say he was 10 hours away from his accommodation in the south of the Island but needed water and had 1% battery life on his phone.

His friends have issued a plea for a search party as the hunt for the apprentice bricklayer resumes in the mountainous Rural de Teno national park