Mum of missing Jay Slater speaks out after Spanish police turn down help from UK

Jay Slater's mum Debbie has said Spanish police told her they have turned down offers of help from Lancashire Constabulary because "they’ve got enough resources".

Ms Duncan, who flew out to Tenerife on Tuesday after her 19-year-old son was reported missing, has described how her head is "spinning" as the search reaches the end of its first week. She travelled to the Canary Islands with her eldest son Zak.

The pair have since been joined by the boys' dad Warren Slater who has said he just "wants the boy back". He visited the search site with Zak over the weekend.

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Jay Slater’s mother Debbie Duncan told the PA news agency she did not know whether the Spanish authorities turning down an offer of help from the UK was because they viewed it as “an insult”.

Questioned on whether the Spanish authorities should have accepted help from Lancashire Constabulary, Ms Duncan said: “I believe they said they’ve got enough resources and they don’t need the help from English police.

“I don’t know if they find it an insult – I really don’t know. I really don’t know.

“They say they’ve got enough resources to get on with the investigation… I don’t know, I don’t know.”

Asked if her head was spinning from the past few days, she said: “It is, it is. People say: ‘Yeah, I understand’ – no, you don’t, you don’t understand.”