Jay Slater's dad wants team of 'soldiers' as he begs 'we need help'
"Our hands are tied over here, we need experts"
The dad of Jay Slater said the family need a team of soldiers to help with the search for their missing son.
Warren revealed that the family has not received any updates from the Spanish police over the past few days - and they would like British officers to interview the two men who accompanied Jay back to the Airbnb.
He said: "We need to, as a full family, do a proper press conference and ask the British authorities to help. He's a British citizen. Get Interpol involved."
"It's just us. I haven't got a team. We need a team to come over here and find out for us what the police are doing and what we need to do. Our hands are tied over here, we need experts. How long can you stay here for? It'll take an army 10 years to cover all this. I'd employ a team of Gurkhas."
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He continued:, "It's just us. I haven't got a team. We need a team to come over here and find out for us what the police are doing and what we need to do. Our hands are tied over here, we need experts. How long can you stay here for? It'll take an army 10 years to cover all this. I'd employ a team of Gurkhas."
Warren added: "We've done the valley where his ping was, we've gone up the road to a vantage point, there's cliffs there and there's a valley and a village there."
He went on to explain that he couldn't understand why anyone would attempt to hike through the brambles and cacti when there was a rough path. He said: "All I'm thinking is common sense, would you try and walk through there. Where we've been today you can see there's a hikers path with proper stones. We've gone straight down and you end up in the village."
He also questioned why no one had seen his son walking along the twisting mountain road in the popular tourist spot. He said: "From the bnb, he's a fit lad, 25 minutes you can get to the top, to where the cafe is. If he's followed the road and been where we've been today, it's took him an hour and a half."
"Dozens of cars would have gone past him. We got here at 9am and the 10am bus passed us. And it would have passed him. I've been up here three weeks and I've never seen as many cars."
His update comes after Spanish police say they have not lost hope in the search for missing teenager Jay Slater.
A source close to the investigation said officers are actively following several leads. A Civil Guard spokesperson confirmed: "The investigation is ongoing and several lines of inquiry are being pursued."
The 19-year-old, from Lancashire, was last seen on June 17 in a remote part of the island. Jay had been to the NRG festival the previous night with two friends, before he headed to an Airbnb rental with two men from the UK who were staying there.
Warren, Jay's father, along with his brother Zak, have taken to searching the rugged mountainous area where Jay's phone was last active. On July 8, Warren appealed to British officials for assistance in locating his son, reports the Mirror.
Lancashire Police have stated that their stance remains unchanged and they will not be sending officers to support the search. They had previously offered assistance in locating the missing teenager, but local police declined the offer.
Speaking to The Mirror yesterday from the village of Santiago del Teidi, located in the shadow of the mountains where Jay disappeared, Warren explained how they have expanded their search from the Valley of Barranco de Juan Lopez, where Jay's phone last pinged, to the neighbouring Los Carrizales valley.
Warren stated that it would take an army a decade to comb through all the rugged mountainous terrain and shared how they had embarked on "two wild goose chases" to abandoned buildings where they hoped Jay might be found. Apprentice bricklayer Jay vanished on the Spanish island on June 17.
He was last spotted departing an Airbnb in the north of the island, near the village of Masca. The teenager, who was holidaying with his friends Lucy, 18, and Brad Hargreaves, 19, had earlier been partying at the Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas and then had gone back to an Airbnb.
The Airbnb Jay visited was rented by convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim, who has since commented: "I let the geezer stay at mine because he had nowhere else to go. His friends had all left him."
In an interview, Qassim expressed: "I know Jay, through friends, I'm not going to bring someone back to mine if I don't know them. I'm doing the geezer a favour and now my face is all over the news. It's a bit mental. I haven't even done anything."
He added: "The only comment I have to make is that Jay came to the house alive, and he left the house alive."
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