Jay Slater, 19, was found dead in Tenerife in July after going missing following a music festival
The family of teenager Jay Slater have turned off donations from a fundraising page set up after his disappearance in Tenerife, saying "our journey of trauma and grief will continue forever". Mr Slater died after sustaining multiple injuries consistent with a fall in a rocky area.
A GoFundMe page titled Get Jay Slater Home received £72,821 before it was closed on November 21. The final message posted on the page explained how the donations were spent. They included a search team from the Dutch non-profit organisation Signi Zoekhonden and his family's stay in Tenerife while efforts to locate Mr Slater continued. Mr Slater's family also said in the post that they were able to give him a "truly deserved... send-off" at his funeral in August.
"Jay truly deserved the send-off we were able to give him and we thank you all for that. We have been overwhelmed with messages of support from all over the globe and will be eternally grateful to all of you. Our journey of trauma and grief will continue forever and we will never recover."
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