Spanish police hunting for missing Jay Slater, 19, announce they HAVE found one Briton during their search after it emerged a 51-year-old Scottish hiker was rescued from the same area the teenager disappeared on Friday

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Spanish police hunting for missing British teenager Jay Slater have found a Brit during their search for him. 

The disappearance of Slater, 19, last Monday morning after attending a three-day rave in Tenerife has captured the attention of the nation. 

The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last known to have been in Rural de Teno National Park, where his phone pinged a nearby cell tower at 8:50am on June 17. 

Spanish police today said that they managed to find a 51-year-old Scottish hiker who got lost in the same national park. 

The hiker, who has not yet been named, was found by police in Asomada Canyon on Friday as they searched for Slater. 

Police said in a social media post: 'Locals observed how said hiker entered very early into an area of ​​difficult access not suitable for travel and after several hours passed without him returning to the starting point, they alerted the agents who were at that time in the area. search for missing young man, Jay Slater.

'Tired and disoriented, he was located by the agents and the rescue team who helped him get out of the ravine.' 

It comes after MailOnline revealed Spanish police searching for missing holidaymaker Jay Slater are investigating his background to determine whether it is 'relevant' to his disappearance. 

Now detectives on the holiday island are trying to determine whether Jay's disappearance is linked to his criminal past after the Spanish press revealed that he was previously involved in a machete attack that left a man fighting for his life. 

Jay part of an eight strong gang who split the skull of Tom Hilton after he was attacked with a machete, golf clubs and an axe.

Mr Hilton was left with injuries to his head which left his skull exposed as well as wounds to his shoulders and legs in the 2021 attack when he was 17 in Rishton, Lancashire.

In court he described the gang as a 'pack of wolves' and he was forced to run for his life through nearby woods before being set upon.

 Details of the attack have been posted on social media sites appealing for help in tracking Jay down and many have described his disappearance as 'karma'.

But in a Facebook message the gang's victim, Mr Hilton said: 'Whoever is writing on these TikToks, give it a rest. This young lad's missing and his family's heartbroken.

'Put yourself in their shoes. Stop talking nonsense on social and get this lad found, mentioning my name all this and that.

'Have some respect and help find this boy and get him back to his family.'