Brad Hargreaves was staying in Tenerife with the 19-year-old before he vanished while trying to make the 11-hour walk back to where he was staying.
A friend of Jay Slater has said the two British men he was last seen with actually met the teenager three days prior.
The apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from when he called pal Lucy Law, who he was staying with on the Monday morning. He said he was trying to walk home and his phone was about to die. On Sunday a two-week search of the area around where his phone was last tracked to was called off after crews failed to find anything.
Speaking to This Morning's Isla Traquair, Brad said he thought he had initially heard Jay slipping and falling on the rocks. Crime reporter Isla said Jay had met the men three days earlier, not the night before as initially reported. The Civil Guard said on Saturday it had since spoken to and ruled out the men from their investigation. Head of the mountain rescue unit Cipriano Martin said: "Those men have been spoken to and they don’t have any relevance whatsoever for the case."
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