Jay Slater 'could be alive in different part of Tenerife' police claim as they pursue three leads

Officers are now following three potential leads, including Slater potentially relocating to another part of Tenerife.

The development comes after police announced there are still "several lines of inquiry", with officers stopping short of declaring the apprentice bricklayer is "missing feared dead".

Slater vanished on June 17 after heading to the holiday hotspot with Lucy Mae Law and Brad Hargreaves.

The Spanish Guardia Civil deployed a mammoth search party in hopes of finding Slater.

Slater’s family and friends all flew out to look for him.

The search party centred around a mountainous region near where his phone's location pinged for the final time.

A source told The Sun: "Even though the ground search for Jay is over, the investigation into where he might be still remains very much open.

"One line of inquiry is a theory that Jay might even be in a different part of Tenerife and still alive. All scenarios are being kept in mind.

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"The case is very much open because there are still a number of unanswered questions which officers must find answers to.

"They are convinced someone, somewhere knows what happened to Jay or knows where is now is, and that’s what they are working towards trying to establish as quickly as they can."

Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas argued the group is being considered as part of the search for the 19-year-old.

The ex-copper claimed he spoke with a "key witness" in the investigation.

Williams-Thomas, a former police officer, said: "As part of this investigation we have sought to identify and speak with as many people, that Jay had contact with, while he was in Tenerife.

"The result of this digging has opened up an established criminal network, with links to drugs, violent crime and theft.

"At this stage, I cannot expand any further on what we now know.

"At this stage, I am unable to say if this network has anything to do with Jay’s disappearance, but remain open-minded as we continue to investigate."

He added: "We knew the two men that took Jay back to their apartment were key people to speak to.

"I’ve now spoken, in some detail, to one of these men. I have also identified the other male who was with him but have not yet spoken with him.

"He says he was on the strip and Jay wanted to carry on partying.

"He said he had nowhere to stay so he said ‘come back to his’.

"In the car they played music and chatted before stopping to get a drink at a café/shop before entering the mountains."