Missing Jay Slater's dad breaks silence to ask heartbreaking question about Tenerife search

Jay Slater's father has confessed he is completely "baffled" by his son's vanishing , questioning: "Why did two grown men take a young boy to a valley to a bed and breakfast? ".

Distraught Warren, aged 58, has revealed the agony of his fruitless two-hour trek through the gorge where Jay's mobile last signalled its location 16 days prior .

He expressed his bewilderment, stating: "You just don't disappear. It's just ridiculous that somebody can just disappear. He's a young boy, he's fit. He's fitter than us all put together. He's played football all his life, he's fit as a flea. You just don't disappear. I don't know... it's just a mystery... it's baffling."

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Warren, visibly shaken, spoke shortly after reports surfaced claiming Jay felt frightened when departing the secluded holiday home in Masca, which lies 20 miles from where he was staying, and supposedly confided in friends that he couldn't go back there.

The Spanish authorities have indicated that the two British men, who reportedly had interactions with the police before they left the island, are not connected to the case of the missing teen, reports the Mirror .

Warren continued: "My only question is, and this is where you start the investigation from, why did two grown men take a young boy to a valley to a bed and breakfast? I can't understand that. Why? Why? You need to ask them why and then start from there."

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Furthermore, Warren voiced his frustration, saying: "Spanish police must know. It is frustrating. It's the language barrier and you can't get mad at Spanish police because they don't like it."

"I've moved beyond sadness and now I'm just angry. I'm angry that nothing's happened. If I left you here and then you just disappeared, don't you think the police would be on my case?"

Warren, accompanied by his older son Zak, 24, and one of Jay's uncles, gazed at the vast gorge below him and said: "We've been all the way down. We've walked as far as you can until it's too dangerous. All I'm doing is a Colombo bit myself. He might be here, you never know, but as a dad, I don't want him to be."

Talking about the terrain below, he described: "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 made these comments following statements from the former British police detective hired by the family, who suggested that Jay had been frightened when he departed from the holiday rental where he was last seen.