ITV Good Morning Britain presenter reveals family's 'frustrations with police' over Jay Slater search

ITV Good Morning Britain's Jonathan Swain has revealed why Jay Slater's loved ones are growing frustrated with the search for the missing 19-year-old. The teenager vanished during a holiday to Tenerife after going to a music festival with a friend.

He travelled to the north of the island with two men he met on the night out. But he called his friend the next day to say he was thirsty and had just one per cent of battery left.

His call then cut out and he has not been heard from since. Good Morning Britain Jonathan is reporting live from Tenerife.

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He said: "They were desperately hoping he would be found by now. They are upset, anxious and terrified by what might of happened to him. They have frustrations with the Spanish police.

"I saw for myself yesterday how they just appear to be focused on one area - a remote valley in the north of the island - that's where they think Jay's mobile phone was last used. And if Jay was trying to walk back to his holiday hotel in the south of the island, one eyewitness said he was walking the wrong way on Monday morning after that night out."

He added: "They're going further and deeper into that remote national park. But who did he go back to the apartment with in the north? Some are suggesting it was two British men who are now back in the UK.

"Have they been spoken to by the police? Because it's such a vast area to search the police are using drones - but are they really doing enough?"

Jonathan spoke to two locals, Mirror reports. One said: "People say why didn't he get a taxi - well it's very remote isn't it? He would have been lucky to get a phone reception, wouldn't he from up here."

Another added: "He'd be hungry and the heat up here." Jay's mum Debbie flew out to the Spanish island to assist search efforts.

In a recent interview, she said she now regrets encouraging her son to go on the holiday. It was Jay's first holiday without his family.

The mum urged people to help 'find her baby'. She said: "I was loving that he was going and saying "you'll love it, you'll come back and you'll want to go again".

"Now I just wish I hadn't encouraged him to go. There is a main road there's bus stops there, there's cafes, it's a hiking route, there's people about, people must have seen him. And if people haven't seen him, someone must have taken him.

"It's over 48 hours now since he last had any contact with anybody. He's out there somewhere or somebody knows where he is. We just need to find my baby."

Jay's friend Lucy - who was on holiday with him - has urged the police to do more. She said: "I know they have had a helicopter and drones up but to be honest I think they could be doing more.

"The other day I was on Veronica's Strip in Los Cristianos and I picked up some information and I went to the Guardia Civilia and they said 'Who is Jay Slater?'

"Can you believe that? It doesn't really give you much confidence does it. I've been out looking and so have his friends and family. We are just all so desperate for some news, we need people to keep looking we need Jay back."