Jay Slater’s father says police have left him and his family in the dark about the search for the missing British teenager – as they share what they hope is an image of him.
Warren Slater, the 19-year-old’s father, said that although some officers in Tenerife had been “brilliant”, he was frustrated by the lack of communication from others.
Speaking to reporters, he said: “Nobody told us. The mountain police [have been] brilliant… but I don’t know how the other police officers [force] it works.
“They could be doing everything, but if they are doing [something]They’re not telling us what they’re doing, if you know what I’m saying.”
A CCTV image that could be of missing teenager Jay Slater
Jay Slaterof Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn in Lancashire, has been missing on the Spanish island since the morning of Monday 17th June.
He was on holiday with friends and was last heard from at around 8.30am that day when he called his friend Lucy Law to say he was returning to his accommodation after missing a bus.
The walk from Slater’s last known location, Teno Rural Park, around the mountain village of Masca in the north of the island, to his accommodation would have taken around 11 hours on foot.
It turns out his family shared a blurry image of what they believe to be the missing teenager, captured on CCTV in a nearby town 10 hours after he disappeared.
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Sky News was unable to verify the origin of the image.
The sighting has not been confirmed by Spanish police, but the family is hoping it could help bring their son home.
Slater’s family flew to the island to try to retrace his steps, as a GoFundMe appeal to raise money for the search surpassed £30,000 at the weekend.
The apprentice bricklayer had gone to the NRG festival in southern Tenerife with friends on Sunday afternoon.
An appeal poster for Jay Slater. Photo: PA
Then he went to Masca with two people he met at the festival.
At around 8am last Monday, Slater spoke to Ofelia Medina Hernandez and she told him the bus would arrive at 10am – as he was apparently hoping to return to his accommodation.
But he started walking – she said she later passed him while he was “walking fast”.
Shortly afterwards he called his friend Mrs Law and said he was lost and was trying to walk from Masca to his accommodation in Los Cristianos in the south of the island.
Shortly after 9am that morning, he was reported missing.
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Helicopters, rescue dogs and drones spent days scouring overgrown terrain, hillsides and rivers as the search continued.
Slater’s family created a Facebook group to help review images and footage in an effort to find him.
The Spanish Civil Guard previously told British media it was “doing everything possible” to find Slater.
“A group specializing in mountain rescue and intervention called Greim has been mobilized.”
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Warren Slater, previously speaking to Sky Newshe said he “just hopes someone helped him get off this mountain.”
He added, “That’s all I want, that someone helped him get off this mountain. I just want him back and that’s it. He’s my son.”
His voice breaking, Slater said the last few days had been “a nightmare, just a nightmare.”
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