The family of Jay Slater hope a CCTV image that emerged on Monday could be a new sighting of the missing teenager 10 hours after his phone’s last live location.
The CCTV is taken in Santiago de Teide close to a church where Jay’s mother said on Saturday that a man has come forward to say he saw someone matching her son’s description sitting on a bench with two men.
The man believes he saw Jay sat on a bench near the San Fernando Rey church looking “a bit worse for wear” around the same time on Monday evening.
A source close to the family told MailOnline of the CCTV: “It looks like him and is certainly a man’s shape but we just don’t know. It was taken near the church where a witness says he saw him so we have to keep hoping.”
It comes as Jay’s distraught dad Warren said his family are in “a living hell” as the search to find his son entered its second week.Speaking to the Sun in Santiago de Teide he broke down in tears as he appealed for the safe return of Jay.
He told the newspaper: “I just want him to be found. I just want my son back, end of.
“What more is there, it’s been a week now, a week of nothing. So somebody somewhere must’ve found out something. Somebody.
“It is a living hell, unless you’re going through it, you cannot explain.
“Please, please please, if anybody knows anything just come forward and help us."
Jay’s mother Debbie told MailOnline on Saturday: “He was with two men looking a bit worse for wear, and they were by a church, this guy has come forward and told the police about it and they are looking into it, we don’t know if it was Jay for sure but it’s a start.”
The sighting has not been confirmed by local police, who say “nothing has been ruled out and nothing has been ruled in”, as they continue to focus their efforts on a ravine near where he was last seen.
The sighting is said to have taken place at 6pm, 10 hours after his phone last pinged around three-and-a-half miles away in the rugged Rural de Teno park, where search efforts have been concentrated.
Santiago de Teide is around 15 miles from the rave venue Jay was partying at.
The apprentice bricklayer, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, had attended the NRG music festival on the island with two friends before his disappearance and was last heard from on Monday last week.
He disappeared following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus.
The walk from Mr Slater’s last known location, Rural de Teno Park in the north of the island, to his accommodation would have taken about 11 hours on foot.
Friend Lucy Law said Jay told her in a frantic phone call last Monday at 8.30am that he was “lost in the mountains, he wasn’t aware of his surroundings, he desperately needed a drink and his phone was on 1%”.
Search teams in Tenerife narrowed their efforts over the weekend on small buildings close to where his phone last pinged.
Officers from the Guardia Civil in the Canary Islands could be seen circling two structures at the bottom of a ravine in Rural de Teno Park on Sunday.
Efforts appeared to be solely focused on the one area after days of searches in the village of Masca and the surrounding landscape.
The efforts come after the teenager’s mother issued a direct plea to her missing son, saying: “We just need you home.”
Debbie Duncan said she had “not slept” since the 19-year-old disappeared.
Mr Slater was last seen wearing a white T-shirt with shorts and trainers, and carrying a black bag.
A fundraiser set up by Ms Law hit its target of £30,000 on Sunday.
The GoFundMe created by to "get Jay Slater home" had received £33,000 in donations by Monday morning.
A post on the page from Mr Slater's mother, Debbie Duncan, confirmed the fundraiser was "approved by our family".
The post, published on Sunday, said: "We have not yet withdrawn any funds and are currently covering the expenses, such as the trip to Tenerife and accommodation, ourselves.
"The funds will remain on hold with GoFundMe until we post a further update on this page.
"We are extremely worried and are doing everything we can to find Jay."
A GoFundMe spokesperson said: "We are in touch with Jay Slater's mother, Debbie, and working with her to keep everyone updated on how their donations will be used in the search.
"For now, the money is with GoFundMe as we work through the next steps."
