The mother of missing Jay Slater says she and her family are "absolutely devastated" about the teenager's disappearance. The 19-year-old , from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared on 17 June after setting off to walk back to his accommodation while on holiday in Tenerife. In a statement issued through the British overseas missing persons charity LBT Global, Debbie Duncan said "words cannot describe the pain and agony we are experiencing".
"Jay is a normal guy who is in his third year of an apprenticeship, and he is a very popular young man with a large circle of friends," she said. "We are a very close family and are absolutely devastated about his disappearance. "Words cannot describe the pain and agony we are experiencing.
He is our beautiful boy with his whole life ahead of him and we just want to find him. "We do not have any information on his whereabouts." Read more: Five key questions over Jay Slater's disappearance Helicopters, drones and search dogs were deployed to find the apprentice bricklayer, who arrived on the island on 13 June for the NRG music festival with two friends.
Ms Duncan praised the Spanish police, who she said had "worked tirelessly up in the mountains where Jay's last phonecall was traced". His last known location was the Rural de Teno Park in the north of the island - which was about an 11-hour walk from his accommodation. "They [police] conducted a land search for 12 days which involved every resource they had available," Ms Duncan added.
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