A coroner will today conclude how Jay Slater died in Tenerife after the teenager vanished on the holiday island last summer.
The 19-year-old ignored desperate pleas from friends to get back to safety after he ventured off a mountain road down a dangerous ravine, an inquest heard on Thursday.
Jay told a friend he was in the middle of the mountains” and in need of a drink, as he attempted a 14-hour walk home the morning after taking drugs and alcohol on a night out, Preston Coroner’s Court was told.
His body was recovered 29 days after he went missing in Tenerife where he had been to the NRG music festival in the resort of Playa de las Americas on June 16 last year.
The inquest into his death resumed this week after it was adjourned in May so witnesses could be traced.
