Jay Slater disappearance: Good Morning Britain reporter explains frustrations of family and friends

A Good Morning Britain presenter has highlighted the growing frustration of Jay Slater's family and friends with the ongoing search for the missing teenager. Jay disappeared during a holiday to Tenerife after attending a music festival with a friend.

He ventured to the north of the island with two men he met during a night out and made a phone call to his friend the following day, stating that he needed water and his phone battery was at 1%. Since then, there has been no further contact from him, and the search continues, reports the Mirror.

Reporting live from Tenerife, Good Morning Britain's Jonathan Swain said: "They were desperately hoping he would be found by now. They are upset, anxious and terrified by what might have happened to him. They have frustrations with the Spanish police.

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"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 with two residents, one of whom 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," and another remarked: "He'd be hungry and the heat up here."

Jay's mother, Debbie, travelled to assist in the search and said in a recent interview that she now regrets encouraging her son to take the holiday as she appeals for help to "find her baby" while the search grows more urgent. 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."

Lucy, Jay's friend who accompanied him on the trip, has called on the authorities to intensify their efforts and 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 Civil 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."