JAY Slater’s dad has pleaded with Interpol and British cops to launch their own investigation into his son’s disappearance.
Distraught Warren Slater, 58, returned to the mountainous region where the 19-year-old vanished three weeks ago as he warns it would take “an army 10 years” to look everywhere.
Jay’s family have been scouring the area where the apprentice builder’s phone last pinged on June 17 but are yet to find a trace of the missing Brit.
Speaking to The Sun Warren said: “As a family, we need to ask the British authorities to help. He’s a British citizen. Get Interpol involved.
“At the moment, 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.
“It’ll take an army 10 years to cover all this. I’d employ a team of Gurkhas.”
He also called on British cops to interview Ayub Qassim, 31 – a convicted drug dealer who was among the last people to see Jay before he vanished.
Our hands are tied over here – we need experts. It’ll take an army 10 years to cover all this
Warren Slater
Jay, who was on his first lads holiday with two pals left the thriving Tenerife party strip with Qassim late at night and headed to a remote Airbnb.
Alongside a third man, Jay spent the night at the £40-a-night home in Masca.
The Airbnb was just a 30 minute drive from Los Cristianos where the teen was staying.
Fresh theories have suggested Jay lost the key to his room leading to him looking for a new place to stay after his pals went home early.
Messages from Ayub, seen by The Sun, show that Jay had complained to him about losing his key on the night out.
The following morning, Jay left the Airbnb and made his way back on foot – despite Google maps showing it to be an 11-hour trek.
He made a panicked call to pal Lucy Mae Law, 18, to say he was “lost in the middle of nowhere”, with no water and only one per cent left on his phone.
Jay has not been seen since – and his family are now desperate for extra resources to be thrown at the search.
Warren said he and Jay’s mum, Debbie Duncan, would remain in Tenerife for the foreseeable future in the hope of a breakthrough in the case.
But as the family expanded their search beyond the remote village of Masca, he admitted they were no further forward in understanding what happened to him.
Exhausted Warren told how he and the family had been kept in the dark by Spanish cops.
Officers from the Spanish Guardia Civil ended their search after just 12 days but insisted that their investigation into his disappearance remains ongoing.
Explaining their decision to extend the search Warren added: “I’ve been through 80 per cent of the valley, so we went further along.
“We’ve done the valley where his phone pinged.
“We’ve been on two wild goose chases to abandoned buildings.
“Now, we’ve gone up the road to a vantage point, there’s cliffs there and there’s a valley and a village 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.”
Warren, of Oswaldtwistle, Lancs., reckons others were involved in Jay’s disappearance – and insisted: “Everything stinks.”
He said: “My starting position, I’ve said this from day one, ask the two men who’ve taken him.”
