Jay Slater latest: Bombshell update in hunt for missing teenager as body is found - with Spanish cops saying early investigations point to 'an accident or fall'

Jay Slater's possessions and clothes were found alongside the body discovered in Tenerife by the Spanish authorities.

It is understood the body was also found close to the last known location where Jay's mobile pinged, LBT Global said

Police also say the death was likely due to an ‘accidental fall in the rough and inaccessible area where he was found’.

The force added: 'All indications suggest that it could be the young British man who had been missing for 29 days, who may have died due to an accidental fall in the rough and inaccessible area where he was found.

'Thanks to the unceasing and constant search carried out by the different units of the Civil Guard, in which it has not stopped to look for the young man every day in the area of Masca, where he allegedly had disappeared the GREIM officers have found the dead body of the young person in a very inaccessible area.

'The results of the autopsy are awaiting confirmation that it is an accident.'

In a statement, the Civil Guard said: 'The Civil Guard mountain rescue and intervention unit has found, after 29 days of non-stop searching, the body of a young man in the Masca area.

'Given the difficulties of the case, the discovery has been possible thanks to the constant and discreet search carried out by the Civil Guard for the last 29 days during which care was taken to ensure curious onlookers did not fill the area.

'All the evidence suggests, with full identification still pending, that this is the young British man who disappeared on 17 June.'

A body has been found in the hunt for missing British teenager Jay Slater - who vanished on the Spanish island of Tenerife almost a month ago.

The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, had not been heard from since the morning of June 17.

Although Spanish police are awaiting full identification, they say that 'everything is pointing to it being a young British man' who disappeared on the same date - and that the cause of death is likely to have been an 'accident or fall'.