Jay Slater's mother breaks down in tears at inquest - as friends fail to appear as witnesses
Jay Slater, 19, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared in Tenerife after attending a music festival in June last year.
In the early hours of the following day, he is believed to have travelled to an apartment where people he had met were staying - before he went missing.
His body was recovered in a remote part of La Masca village on 15 July following an extensive search of the island by authorities and his family.
His mother Debbie Duncan, stepfather and other family members attended the inquest into Mr Slater's death at Preston Coroner's Court on Wednesday.
Ms Duncan broken in tears as she told the hearing she still had questions that needed answers.
The hearing, scheduled to last one day, was told extensive efforts had made to reach several witnesses who were in contact with Mr Slater before he disappeared, which included summonses being issued.
However, a number of witnesses had failed to respond, including Mr Slater's friends Bradley Geoghegan, Brandon Hodgson and Lucy Law, who were out with him at the music festival.
The two men who were staying at an Airbnb that Mr Slater went back to before he disappeared have also not been traced.
Ms Duncan said: "How can we ever get any understanding?
"There's things we want to question. We want these people to be sat in front of us, because our son went on holiday and didn't come back, so there's questions we need to ask."
Coroner Dr James Adeley agreed to adjourn the hearing, at the request of Mr Slater's tearful mother, who asked for the witnesses to be brought to court to give evidence before the inquest concludes. A further hearing date has yet to be set.
Earlier, the court heard analysis of Mr Slater's body showed traces of drugs including cocaine, ketamine and ecstasy.
During Wednesday's hearing, Home Office pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd detailed Mr Slater's injuries.
He described "extensive fractures of the left side of his head… extending into the bottom of his skull".
Mr Slater also sustained "fractures to the left side of the pelvis and hip joints".
Dr Shepherd said the injuries were "entirely consistent with a heavy fall, from a height, landing on his head".
Asked by the coroner if there was any suggestion of assault or restraint, he replied: "Nothing to suggest an assault, gripping, holding, nothing of that sort."
Dr Adeley asked the pathologist about the impact of Mr Slater's injuries.
Dr Shepherd replied: "It would have had an immediate and devastating effect on Jay's consciousness.
"The injuries were so severe I have no doubt he would have been instantly unconscious from the moment of that blow to the head. Death could well have been instant, the injury was so severe."
Failing that, it would have most likely occurred "extremely soon after" the fall, he added.
Dr Shepherd gave an official cause of death as a head injury.
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