Jay Slater's father and brother visit search site and give emotional plea as hunt for missing teen enters seventh day
The father and brother of missing teenager Jay Slater have made an emotional plea as the hunt for the Brit enters it's seventh day.
Warren Slater, 58, and his son Zak, 24, visited the young lad's last known location in Tenerife yesterday (22 June) following an agonising week of waiting for news on his whereabouts.
The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer vanished on 17 June and no trace of him has been found since.
Jay had travelled to the island with some pals to attend the New Rave Generation (NRG) event, but ended up staying out with a group of people he had recently met and heading back to a remote property.
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His pal Lucy Law has told how she received a frantic phone call from him the following morning, with Jay explaining that he was 'in the middle of nowhere', desperately needed a drink and that he had one percent battery left on his phone.
It is believed he was attempting an 11-hour walk through the National Park of Teno, on the north of the island, to get back to his resort after heading back to a pad in Casa Abuela Tina with the people he had met at the NRG festival.
The owner of an Airbnb that Jay is believed to have been staying in, Ophelia, claimed she spotted the youngster travelling through a 'dangerous' area in the mountains near a secluded town called Masca.
Another person then came forward and claimed to have saw the teen 'walking back down the road' with two mystery men, according to his distraught mother Debbie Duncan, who is currently in Tenerife.
She says police in Tenerife have now 'stepped up' the search for her missing son, adding that cops told her they were 'investigating all leads'.
Jay's father and brother have joined a host of other relatives, pals and volunteers on the island to find the youngster as the search for the apprentice bricklayer, from Lancashire, continues.
Dad Warren tearfully told how he is holding out hope that 'somebody has helped him off this mountain' and that he is alive and well somewhere.
He told Sky News: "That's all I want, that somebody has helped him get off this mountain. I just want him back and that's it. He's my son. I just want him back and that's it."
Warren said the last week has been 'a nightmare, just a nightmare'.
Jay's brother, Zak, is also praying for his sibling's safe return.
He added: "We don't know where he is, what's happened, or anything. I don't know what to say. We just want him to come home safe. I just wish he'd come home."
The father and son were seen sobbing as they traced Jay's last known footsteps, which saw them visit the rental property which he had left.
Nine of Jay's friends also headed up the mountain with the pair to visit the search site.
Topics: Festivals, Parenting, Travel, UK News, World News, Jay Slater
Olivia Burke