Coroner rules what really happened to Jay Slater when he died in Tenerife

Jay slater, the British teenager who went missing in Tenerife last summer, died by accident after falling down a ravine, a coroner concluded.

The 19-year-old was attempting a 14-hour walk home from a night out with friends drinking and taking drugs, Preston Coroner’s Court has heard.

Mr Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, had been to the NRG music festival at the Papagayo nightclub in the resort of Playa de las Americas on June 16 last year.

It’s thought he left to go to an Airbnb holiday flat near Masca in the early hours of the next morning.

The inquest heard his phone battery had died and he needed a drink but had no water as he set off on the long walk back.

As temperatures grew he left the road and ended up in the ravine, where he was found to have suffered severe head injuries from a fall.

His body was discovered on July 15, a month after he went missing.

Concluding a two-day inquest into his death, Dr James Adeley, senior coroner for Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen, said: ‘Jay fell at a particularly dangerous area in difficult terrain.

‘He fell approximately 20 to 25 meters, suffering skull fractures and brain trauma from which he would have died instantaneously. Jay Dean Slater died an accidental death.

‘This is a tragic death of a young man.”

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