Spanish Police Find Body Where British Teenager Disappeared

The Spanish authorities said on Monday that they had found the remains of a young man on the island of Tenerife, in the area where a British teenager, Jay Slater, disappeared last month.

Mr. Slater, a 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from England, disappeared on June 17 while on vacation on Tenerife, a popular vacation destination in the Canary Islands. The missing persons organization LBT Global, which has been coordinating his family’s communications with the media, said in a statement on Monday that the body “does look to be that of Jay Slater” and that it was found near the last location of Mr. Slater’s mobile phone.

“Although formal identification is yet to be carried out, the body was found with Mr. Slater’s possessions and clothes,” the LBT Global statement said.

Spain’s Civil Guard, a national police force, said in a statement that after 29 days of searching its rescue workers had found the body of a young man in the area of Masca, a village in the island’s mountains, on Monday morning. The remains were found in a steep and difficult-to-reach area by members of the Civil Guard’s Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group, the statement said.

The Civil Guard said that the available evidence suggested that it could be the body of Mr. Slater, but that a formal identification had not yet taken place. It looked like the person had suffered an accident or a fall in the rough terrain, the Civil Guard said.

In June, Mr. Slater attended a music festival on Tenerife with friends, including Lucy Law, who had described the last time she saw Mr. Slater on an online fund-raising page for his family. Ms. Law said that on the final night of the festival, June 16, Mr. Slater left with two people he had met there to go to their apartment in a more secluded part of the island.

Ms. Law said that the next morning she received a phone call from Mr. Slater, who told her that he was lost and thirsty in the mountains, and that his phone battery was nearly drained. He called another friend around the same time, who said that Mr. Slater had decided to go down “a little drop” beside a road. That morning was the last time anyone reported hearing from him.

Mr. Slater’s disappearance received frenzied attention from the British media and was followed closely by online sleuths, including some who traveled to Tenerife, claiming to help with the search. The intense interest in the case also sparked conspiracies and unfounded theories.

Debbie Duncan, Mr. Slater’s mother, described her son in a statement on Sunday as “a typical young man who loves life with a bright future ahead of him.”