Jay Slater’s family holds on to hope – as online sleuths travel to Tenerife in hunt for missing British teen | World News

Greater than per week on from Jay Slater’s disappearance, his dad Warren remains to be doing the whole lot he can within the effort to assist discover his son.

He’s holding on to hope, even because the state of affairs turns into more and more determined.

This morning within the city of Santiago del Teide on the outskirts of the nationwide park the place Jay went lacking, Warren was surrounded by a gaggle of household pals, all armed with posters coated in Jay’s face, asking anybody with info to alert the police.

The group are satisfied {that a} blurry screenshot of some CCTV footage is a key piece of data, telling journalists it exhibits Jay within the city sq., 10 hours after his cellphone was final positioned.

The Spanish police haven’t confirmed the sighting and beneath Warren’s hope is frustration too.

He instructed us some officers had been “good”, however that there had additionally been an absence of communication from others.

“They might be doing the whole lot but when they’re doing [something], they are not telling us what they’re doing, if you happen to perceive what I am saying,” he mentioned.

The picture of Warren at factors tearful, and surrounded by cameras, is a snapshot of the curiosity and hypothesis that has surrounded this case.

That press consideration on the bottom in Tenerife is dwarfed by an internet storm of conspiracy and debate that has even seen a gaggle of Britons come to Tenerife, taking themselves as much as the arid, treacherous panorama the place emergency providers have thus far failed to seek out the bricklayer from Lancashire.

Learn extra:
What we all know in regards to the search – one week on
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In Santiago del Teide we meet a type of individuals, Paul Arnott, who has been sharing clips of his personal search effort on social media, together with TikTok. “I heard on the web, however they wanted assist,” he mentioned.

“I used to be following the story and I wasn’t planning to come back out, however as quickly as I heard they wanted assist, that is after I got here out,” mentioned Mr Arnott, 29, from Bedfordshire.

He added: “It is a search and rescue, however the extra persons are concerned the higher it’ll be.”

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Whereas individuals like Paul defy official recommendation to attempt to assist, the formal search on the scene which final week noticed drones, sniffer canine and helicopters deployed, appears to be getting smaller.

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At present a handful of officers stood and surveyed the world, clearly not a lot nearer to resolving this unusual case.