A BODY FOUND in Tenerife matches the fingerprints of missing teenager Jay Slater and the cause of death is consistent with multiple injuries sustained during a fall in a rocky area, a Spanish court has said.

The body was found on Monday with the 19-year-old’s clothes and possessions near his last known location, near the village of Masca.

The Spanish Guardia Civil said Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, could have fallen in the steep and inaccessible area where he was discovered.

They released video footage of rescuers climbing rock faces and battling through scrub as they carried out the search.

Part of the clip showed two members of the search team being winched out of the area by helicopter after the body had been found and recovered.

Debbie Duncan, the mother of Jay Slater, said in statement that the confirmation of her son’s death in Tenerife was the “worst news”, adding:

I just can’t believe this could happen to my beautiful boy. Our hearts are broken.

Slater had attended the NRG music festival with two friends before his disappearance, and his last known location was the Rural de Teno Park in the north of Tenerife, about an 11-hour walk from his accommodation.

He had travelled to an Airbnb in Masca after a night out, but the two men said to have rented the property were later ruled “not relevant” to the case.

Spanish police said they had called off the search for the apprentice bricklayer at the end of June after helicopters, drones and search dogs were deployed to find him.