Missing Jay Slater's best friend was on video call to him when 'I knew he went off the road'

Our correspondent Josh Stokes is in Tenerife

The best friend of missing Jay Slater says he had been on a video call with him before his disappearance - when he heard him go "off the road".

Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, disappeared on Monday 17 June after attending the NRG music festival with his friends, including Brad Hargreaves, in the resort of Playa de Las Americas.

Brad said he was on Snapchat video with Jay while he was walking on a road, but the 19-year-old slipped off the road as they spoke.

Speaking to ITV's This Morning, Brad said: “He was on the phone walking down a road and he’d gone over a little bit - not a big drop - but a tiny little drop and he was going down, and he said ‘I’ll ring ya back, I’ll ring ya back’ because I think someone else was ringing him.

"If he was thinking like me, he would have gone back up and started walking on the path again… He wouldn't have gone all that way down there.”

Brad said he knew Jay had gone off the path because he could see his feet and he was falling downhill.

"I knew he went off the road because I could hear like when you walk on gravel.. stones," he added.

However, he said the pair were not concerned until they realised how far away he was from the resort.

Brad continued: “We were both laughing and he said, ‘Look where I am’ and I was like, ‘I’ve just come out of a festival’ and he didn’t seem concerned on the phone until we knew how far away he was.

"I said [to Jay], ‘Put your location on and he said ‘a 15 minute drive or a 14 hour walk, I don’t know if it’s accurate or not’ and I said, ‘If it’s only a 15 minute drive, get a taxi’."

In the early hours of Monday 17 June, Jay was reportedly seen getting in a silver car with with people he had met over the course of the night and staying in an apartment in north Tenerife.

Around 8.30am that day, he called his friend, Lucy Law, telling her he had attempted to walk back to his accommodation after missing his bus – a journey that would take more than 10 hours.

Brad added: “What’s happened is that we have split up, but he has been with people that he already knew.

“He’s ended up back with them and I don’t know how or what has gone on there but he’s gone off and rang me halfway to their house saying I’m staying here and I’ll be back the next day.

"He's rang me walking down the mountain and he just says he's walking home. At the time I didn't think anything of it I just thought he was going to get a bus home or a taxi home because that's what he says he is going to do.

"Next thing you know his phone dies and it's 10 days on now and nothing since."

Brad said he hopes that Jay "comes home" and "that someone brings him home, that he’s found somewhere".

"I don’t know," he said. "Every day my mind is going blank. I don’t know what to say anymore.

"I’m praying he comes home every night. I’ve still got hope for him. I still feel like he’s somewhere.”