A Lancashire inquest has ruled that 19-year-old Jay Slater died accidentally after falling 20–25 metres down a ravine in Tenerife last summer. Senior coroner Dr. James Adeley told Preston Coroner’s Court that Slater sustained skull fractures and fatal brain trauma and would have died instantaneously. Evidence presented during the two-day hearing showed Slater had been returning from a night out at the NRG music festival in Playa de las Américas on 16 June 2024, where he had taken alcohol and drugs, before travelling with two men to an Airbnb in the mountain village of Masca. Early the next morning, he began a 14-hour walk toward his accommodation in Los Cristianos, phoning friends several times before his battery died. Spanish search teams and volunteers spent 29 days looking for the teenager; his body was discovered on 15 July 2024 above a dry stream bed, with his bag and passport found nearby. The coroner said there was no evidence of assault or third-party involvement. Slater’s mother, Debbie Duncan, told the court her son was “very loved” and that the family hoped the findings would end conjecture surrounding his death.