Dozens of tearful mourners gathered in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, to honour the 19-year-old who was found dead this week in a ravine a short distance away from his last known location.
Jay Slater 's family are making heartbreaking plans to privately fly home from Tenerife with his body, it has been revealed.
Mr Searle, who has been helping the family since Jay's disappearance on June 17, told the BBC: 'Debbie has told me if she is not doing something she will just fall apart.' Flowers and messages to loved ones were left outside the book, while inside those grieving lit candles and signed a book of condolences.
'Debbie and family are going up the mountain tonight and they are going to lay some flowers in memory of Jay', the minister added.Jay Slater pictured with his mother Debbie Duncan Following the coroner's confirmation that the body found belonged to Jay, a spokesperson for his mother said: 'Formal identification of Jay's body will be done using a DNA sample provided by the family to the Spanish Guardia Civil during the early stages of the search.
'We are working with the family now to sort out the next steps of taking Jay home, recovery of his belongings and laying him to rest. Spanish officials said the teenager's death was a result of 'trauma consistent with a fall in a rocky area'. Mr Searle also slammed 'armchair detectives' and 'so-called experts' who had been 'making a name for themselves' with outlandish theories about what had happened to Jay since his disappearance.
'It seems like it's ramped up recently and it's something I feel passionately about, something I am going to be talking to the Home Secretary about in the coming weeks.' He later shared a photo on his Snapchat account, which showed him standing at the doorway of a house shortly after 7am. Jay Slater's best friend Lucy Law posted an emotional message to the 'happiest and most smiley person' after a body was found near where his phone last pinged
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