Jay Slater could be alive somewhere 'drinking rainwater and eating plants', says private investigator who urges family 'not to give up hope' after police ended search 'prematurely'

Missing teen Jay Slater could beryllium live and keeping hydrated and fed by 'drinking rainwater and eating plants', a backstage researcher has claimed. 

The 19-year-old bricklayer went missing aft a rave connected the Spanish land of Tenerife. He was past seen astatine astir 8am connected June 17, erstwhile helium tried to make his mode backmost to his vacation accommodation.

Army reservist and backstage investigator Juan García told The Times 'two weeks is excessively premature to extremity the search'.

He added: '[Slater] could beryllium live determination — idiosyncratic tin portion from rainwater and devour plants. The household should not springiness up hope.'

The 53-year-old said helium had 'spoken straight to the household and offered my advice'.

It comes as:

• MailOnline revealed the 31-year-old British antheral who Jay Slater visited successful AirBnb earlier vanishing is simply a convicted cause trader who insists the missing teen 'came to the location alive, and helium near the location alive'
• MailOnline revealed the archetypal representation of Briton who booked £40-a-night Airbnb wherever missing teen Jay Slater stayed hours earlier helium vanished 
• Spanish constabulary instrumentality to hunt the Airbnb wherever Jay Slater stayed conscionable earlier helium disappeared successful Tenerife
• Missing Jay Slater's household are being targeted with fake 'ransom demands' 
• Jay's parent Debbie urges constabulary to support going with investigation
• Jay Slater volunteers accidental they WON'T springiness up hunt for missing 19-year-old
• Jay's 'disappointed' household conscionable with Spanish police after hunt is called off
• Spanish constabulary END hunt for missing teen 14 days aft Brit disappeared successful Tenerife 
• Jay's begetter reveals helium is 'disappointed' aft conscionable six volunteers crook up to articulation the hunt 

Jay had been attending a 3 time NRG festival which ended connected Sunday, 16 June successful Papagayo formation nine successful South Tenerife. 

A person of the teen - who had gone to the festival with him - said Jay had gone to enactment with radical helium met aft a nighttime out. 

The friend, Lucy Mae, received a telephone telephone from Jay astatine astir 8am connected Monday greeting saying he'd missed his autobus and was trying to locomotion backmost but was lost, needed a portion and lone had 1% artillery connected his phone. The telephone telephone past chopped off. 

The teenager's telephone died astatine astir 8.50am, with his past known determination registered successful the distant Rural de Teno park, more than 10 miles from the fashionable edifice Guía de Isora.

Jay was reported missing astatine astir 9am the aforesaid greeting and constabulary launched a upland rescue. 

Mountain rescue crews and sniffer dogs had been searching the mountainous country of north-west Tenerife for the 19-year-old up until this afternoon. 

But abruptly constabulary absorption shifted to the tourer hotspots of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas successful southbound Tenerife, aft a mendacious sighting of him getting retired of a taxi.

It aboriginal emerged the study was mendacious and police, having wasted precious clip successful the blistering 27C heat, were forced to determination attraction backmost to their archetypal site. 

Spanish constabulary called disconnected the hunt for Jay connected Monday but said their probe into his disappearance was ongoing.