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The final hours of Lancashire teenager Jay Slater have been explored in a new Channel 4 documentary more than a year after his disappearance and death in Tenerife.

The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, went missing on June 17 last year. A month-long search ended in tragedy when police reported the discovery of human remains on July 15, close to the last known location of his mobile phone.

A coroner later ruled that Jay's death was caused by fatal head injuries sustained in a fall of around 20 to 25 metres.

"There was no third party involved. Jay Dean Slater died an accidental death," coroner Dr James Adeley told an inquest on July 25.

The case and the swirl of conspiracy theories around it is the subject of a Channel 4 documentary, The Disappear

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