Jay Slater’s friend Lucy Law, who was one of the last people to speak to the teenager, has made an emotional statement after a body was found by search teams in Tenerife. 

“Honestly lost for words,” she wrote on Instagram, hours after the news a body that “does look to be that of Jay Slater” was found close to the last known location of the teenager’s phone.

Ms Law spoke to Mr Slater on the morning of Monday 17 June, when the 19-year-old told her he was lost, needed water and his phone was on 1% battery.

The pair had been on holiday together on the Spanish island and spent the day before he went missing at a music festival.

“Always the happiest and most smiley person in the room, you was one of a kind Jay and you’ll be missed more than you know,” Ms Law wrote.

“I’m sure you’ll ‘have your dancing shoes polished and ready’ waiting for us all.”

She shared photos of them together, videos of them dancing at a festival and a screenshot of a Snapchat exchange in which she says “Much love” and he replies “Love you long time”.

She repeated that sentiment in the caption, closing it: “We all love you buddy. Fly high.”

Read more:
‘You should be ashamed’: Anger in Jay Slater groups
A timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance

Keep up with all the latest news from the UK and around the world by following Sky News

Rescue workers found a body after a four-week search. It is yet to be formally identified but “evidence strongly suggests” the remains are those of the 19-year-old, police said.

The body was found with Mr Slater’s possessions and clothes in the Masca area, close to where Mr Slater was last heard from.

During his last phone call with Ms Law, he said he was after setting off to walk from a northern area of the island back to his holiday accommodation in the south – a journey of about 11 hours.

Related posts:

Liverpool’s world heritage status under threat over Northern Docklands plans Northern Ireland records new ‘highest temperature’ as UK heatwave set to break up Organiser of fatal Emiliano Sala flight knew pilot was not qualified, court hears ‘Bleak’ winter ahead as patients could face six-hour wait for an ambulance, paramedic warns Liverpool bomb contained ball bearings and could have caused ‘significant injury or death’, police say Another P&O ferry ‘Pride of Kent’ being detained after failing inspection England start Euros campaign with 1-0 victory over Austria Final stamps featuring Queen unveiled by Royal Mail Officer charged with beating and strangling girl in back of police car ‘Like an earthquake’: Three-storey house collapses in London Paedophile who posed as model scout admits sex offences against 39 children in UK Investigation launched into England and Wales’s ‘worst’ water company