Missing!!! Jay Slater: Spanish police 'still hope to find missing teenager alive

Family call for Interpol and British police to join search for teenager following his disappearance over

three weeks ago

Spanish police said on Tuesday they still have hope of finding missing teenager Jay Slater with "several lines of inquiry" being pursued in their investigation. Police on the island of Tenerife issued an update as the search for the 19-year-old who went missing after attending a rave with friends entered its fourth week. A spokesman told The Sun: "The investigation is ongoing and several lines of inquiry are being

pursued” with a source close to the probe saying they were still hopeful of finding the teenager alive. They insisted that the investigation had not yet classed Mr Slater as "missing feared dead", the newspaper reported. It came as Mr Slater’s father called for Interpol and British police to join the search for his son - as relatives scoured a town where he is believed to have been spotted nine hours after his last confirmed sighting. Warren Slater, 58, said British authorities needed to get involved after Spanish police called off the search for Jay in Tenerife, where he disappeared on June 17.

Speaking to The Sun from Tenerife, Mr Slater 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."

Mr Slater, 19, went missing shortly after leaving an AirBnB in northern Tenerife after being invited back to the property with two men after a rave. His last confirmed sighting was in Masca just after 8am walking out of the village.

But family members on Monday were searching in the town of Santiago del Teide where he was allegedly spotted nine hours after he disappeared.

A witness reportedly claimed to have seen Jay in the village the day he disappeared, relatives last month said. There was also an alleged sighting of him on CCTV.