Sunday June 16: Jay and his friends, including Lucy Mae Law, party at the final day of the NRG music festival at Papagayo night club in the resort of Playa de las Americas, Tenerife.
Monday June 17: Between 3am and 6am BST, Jay goes back to an Airbnb with two men after they leave Playa de las Americas in a car.
7.30am: Jay shares a photo on his Snapchat account, which shows him standing at the doorway of a house with the location Parque Rural de Teno.
Between 8.30am and 9am: Jay calls Lucy and says he is ‘lost in the mountains with one per cent battery and no water’ and has missed a bus back south and was attempting to walk. It would take 11 hours.
The call cuts out and the phone’s last location is a path in the rugged Rural de Teno national park, which is popular with hikers.
Grainy CCTV, released on June 24, shows a possible sighting of Jay at Santiago at around 6pm – nearly ten hours after his mobile phone last pinged in the Rural de Teno Park at around 8.50am.
The CCTV is taken close to a church, San Fernando Rey, where Jay’s mother told MailOnline a man has come forward to say he saw someone matching her son’s description sitting on a bench with two men.
Tuesday June 18: Friends search the area but there is no sign of Jay and he does not return to his accommodation.
Local police and mountain rescue teams start hunting for Jay – and his mother Debbie flies to Tenerife.
Wednesday June 19 – Spanish police use drones, dogs and a helicopter but Jay is not found. They change their search to Los Cristianos because of a possible sighting, but it is ruled out and they return to Rural de Teno.
Thursday June 20: Guardia Civil, mountain rescue, firefighters and volunteers continue to search the national park.
Friday June 21: Lancashire Police offer support but it is declined by the Spanish police.
Saturday June 22: Search teams continue scouring the national park and Debbie says: ‘We just need you home.’
Sunday June 23: Police examine outbuildings at the bottom of a ravine where his phone last pinged.
Monday June 24: MailOnline learns Spanish police are investigating whether Jay’s past is relevant. Jay’s family focus on the area of Santiago de Teide – where the grainy CCTV they think is Jay was taken.
Tuesday June 25: Jay’s mother issues a heartbreaking plea for her son to come home as more friends fly out to Tenerife. TV investigator Mark Williams-Thomas is seen outside Airbnb Jay went to.
Wednesday June 26: Mr Williams-Thomas tells the two men that Jay went back with to ‘come forward with crucial information’
Thursday June 27: Jay’s mother says she is in talks to withdraw some of £36,000 from GoFundMe to help with rescue efforts and living expenses.
Friday June 28: Police in Tenerife call for an army of volunteers to help them scour the rugged terrain.
Saturday June 29: Only six volunteers show up to help with the search. Investigators also say the two men Jay went back with have ‘no relevance’ to the case.
Sunday June 30: Spanish police officially end the search for Jay Slater. They say the investigation ‘remains open’, however.
Monday July 15: A body is found in the hunt for Jay Slater. His possessions and clothing are discovered next to human remains. Spanish cops say it points to an ‘accidental fall’
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