Jay Slater missing – latest: Father and brother join search in Tenerife as police issue update on mystery men

Jay Slater’s father and brother have joined search times in scouring the mountainside in Tenerife for the missing teenager, after Spanish police put out an appeal for volunteers.

Warren Slater told reporters: “We just still can’t believe it; it’s been so tough on us, and I want people to think about us as parents and what we are going through.

“All those trollers having a go at us, they don’t know how we feel, why don’t they come up here and have a look and see for themselves how dangerous it is.”

It comes as police have declared that the two British men who put up the missing British teenager the night before he disappeared are of “no relevance” to the investigation.

The 19-year-old vanished nearly two weeks ago near Buenavista del Norte, Tenerife , after travelling there with two men he had met at a festival around 27 miles further south on the island.

The teenager was last seen wearing a white T-shirt with shorts and trainers, and his phone shows his last location as the Rural de Teno park at 8.50am on Monday 22 June.