Following the discovery, Debbie Duncan, Mr Slater’s 55-year-old mother, said in a statement: “I just can’t believe it. We’re here with the embassy staff waiting for an update, and now it’s come – the worst news. I just can’t believe this could happen to my beautiful boy. Our hearts are broken.”

A family source told The Sun that Ms Duncan was “completely devastated” upon hearing that her son’s body had been recovered.

Mr Slater, a 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer disappeared on June 17 on the island of Tenerife, which he had been visiting with friends to attend the NRG music festival.

He left the festival between 3am and 6am on Sunday, June 16, in the car of two other British men he had met that night, spending it at an Airbnb property they had rented near Masca, on the island’s west side.

The cottage’s owner, Ofelia Medina Hernández, saw Mr Slater outside at around 8am the following morning. After she told him that the next bus to Los Cristianos, the resort in the south of the island where he was staying, was two hours away, Mr Slater decided to start walking.