Jay Slater reporter says investigation has run into 'added problem'

A Jay Slater reporter has appeared on GB News to issue a warning over an "added problem" in the Tenerife search for the missing teen. Gerard Couzens detailed the latest on the search for Jay on Monday (June 24) as the search entered its eighth day.

Mr Couzens told hosts Nana Akua and Andrew Pierce that the teams are working with "very difficult terrain" and the "unpredictable behaviour" from the missing teen. "His behaviour wasn't entirely predictable. He wanted to get a bus back to the south, and yet he was seen walking away from the village in the opposite direction after stopping a neighbour to ask for the bus timetables," he said.

Mr Couzens dialled in via video link from the Canary Islands for the chat with GB News. Discussing the trolling of Jay's mum Debbie, Mr Couzens said: "It's absolutely awful, these people just need to get a life. She hasn't been up to the scene, because she openly admits she'd find it too upsetting.

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"But she's there, and to be receiving this sort of criticism on top of the nightmare she's already enduring, it just beggars belief." He added: "It's a very emotionally charged situation, but I think the Spanish police are handling it well, albeit in a very different manner to the way the British police would.

"They're quietly working away in the background and focused, as they told me this morning when I just spoke to them, totally, 100 per cent focused on the work they're doing." The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, vanished without a trace while on holiday last Monday.

Police hoping to track him on Sunday focused on some small outbuildings in a village at the bottom of a ravine, near to where his phone was last traced to. Mum Debbie has issued a direct plea to her son, saying: "We just need you home".