Jay Slater's dad says it's 'disappointing' after only a handful turn up to help

Jay Slater's dad has shared a sad and upsetting detail over the search for his missing teen son after the search was called off following an unsuccessful 13 day hunt in Tenerife. Only a handful of people turned up to help find Jay, leaving his dad Warren Slater, 58, feeling let down.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said: "It's a bit disappointing that there are no British apart from Paul [Arnott], but I suppose to them he's just a British lad who's come out here and got drunk." He said: "I'm grateful to those who have come out here because you can see just how dangerous it is.

"And what gets me is the trollers who are having a go at us for not searching." The dad went on: "It's not the local park, these are big mountains, the terrain is dangerous, put yourself in our position would you go out in these conditions?"

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He added: "It's tough, it's hard, we are leaving it to the professionals." The dad, speaking out to the Daily Mail newspaper, continued: "And I'm grateful for those who have turned out today and I want to thank them for what they are doing."

It also emerged on Friday that one of Slater’s last calls was a video call to another friend, Brad Hargreaves, who told ITV that he heard Slater apparently sliding off the path he was on. “He was on the phone walking down a road … and he’d gone over a little bit – not a big drop – but a tiny little drop and he was going down, and he said ‘I’ll ring you back, I’ll ring you back’ because I think someone else was ringing him.

“If he was thinking like me, he would have gone back up and started walking on the path again … He wouldn’t have gone all that way down there.” Hargreaves said he could hear his friend sliding. “I knew he went off the road because I could hear like when you walk on gravel … stones,” he added.