Tenerife officials say the body recovered near the spot where Jay Slater went missing was “very deteriorated” and it is unlikely full identification will happen until “next week.”

       But they say documentation the dead man was carrying was the teenager’s and everything is pointing to an accidental fall.

       A court in the town of Icod de los Vinos which covers the area of Masca where the body was found is in charge of the ongoing investigation.

       In their first comments so far since the grim police discovery yesterday, officials representing the female investigating judge said: “In reference to the British citizen Jay Slater, the autopsy with the full identification of the body and the causes of death will take time, because the body was very deteriorated.

       “But there is very little doubt about both the identity and the aetiology. The documentation he was carrying corresponds to that of Jay Slater and everything is pointing to an accidental fall, although that is unofficial pending the final reports.”

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       The official, speaking on condition of anonymity as is normal in Spain, said: “The court is saying the official identification will not be known until next week.”

       The 29-day search for apprentice bricklayer Jay, 19, came to an end yesterday around 10am. A helicopter was called in to recover his body.

       The large-scale police search in the mountains near Masca had been suspended around two weeks after he disappeared on June 17, but mountain rescue police specialists had continued to search for him daily.

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       Jay's family have now said they believe the teenager "fell from a height" and died "instantly".

       Speaking to MailOnline, a spokesman for the family said they are "absolutely broken".

       The spokesman said: "They are devastated. It's not the outcome they were hoping for. It looks as if he fell from a height so he would most likely have been killed instantly and he wasn't there for a long time."

       He said the family appreciated that the area where he was finally found was remote and that "there is no criticism of the search".

       The expect the remains to be repatriated within a "week or so", with post-mortems being conducted in both Tenerife and the UK, the outlet reports.