Jay Slater cops issue major Tenerife search update as they give family permission to deploy own teams to join hunt 

TENERIFE cops have said Jay Slater’s family can bring in their own search teams to find the missing teenager.

The Brit vanished on June 17 and police called off their efforts to find him in the mountains last Sunday.

Jay Slater, 19, has been missing in Tenerife for more than two weeks

The huge search for Jay was asked on June 17

Jay’s dad and brother, Warren and Zak, searching for the missing teen

Now, 18 days after he disappeared, Spanish police have authorised the family to deploy their own rescue force.

The family told Sky they hope to use some of a GoFundMe – now up to almost £50,000 – to fund a fresh search.

Jay’s last known location was in the Rural de Teno park, near a 2,000ft ravine with a steep drop into the sea around the holiday island.

A huge search team made up of police, volunteers, firefighters, drones, helicopters and sniffer dogs spent two weeks searching the sparse parkland nearby.

On June 30 local authorities axed the mammoth hunt, leaving Jay’s “angry” family to fend for themselves.

Jay’s worried dad Warren told Manchester Evening News his son could’ve been heading towards the sea on the morning he vanished.

He said: “I’ve done this trail now twice. Every step I’ve took there’s been an opening.

“If you land on one of those cactus’ you’re not moving. Surely somebody’s gonna find you after two weeks.”

“It’s hundreds of square feet of this little bushy stuff. You can’t explain this to somebody unless they see it. You can take a photograph or film it, but until you’re here…”

Warren told MEN he has gone past sadness to anger over the police response to Jay’s disappearance.

He said: “I’ve gone past the sadness bit and I’m angry, if that makes any sense.

“I’m angry that nothing’s happened. If I left you here and then you just disappeared, do you not think police would be on my case?”

Apprentice bricklayer Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from on the morning of June 17.

He phoned his friend Lucy to tell her he was “lost in the middle of nowhere” after going back to a remote Airbnb with two British men the night before.

After missing the bus, he started walking the 11-hour route back to his accommodation and disappeared in the rural mountains.

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