Jay Slater's father and brother return with search team to Tenerife gorge where missing 19-year-old's mobile phone lost its signal nearly three weeks ago

Missing Jay Slater's begetter and member person returned with a hunt squad to the Tenerife gorge wherever the 19-year-old's mobile telephone mislaid its awesome astir 3 weeks ago.

The brace were joined by a squad of 7 section hikers and a canine who spent much than 4 hours combing the unforgiving terrain.

Under fierce prima with temperatures of 25C the radical fanned retired a agelong and tricky way which leads down to the oversea conscionable beneath the distant colony of Masca connected Tenerife's northbound westbound coast.

The teen disappeared aft attending a rave successful Playa de las Americas which helium near successful the greeting of June 17. He past travelled backmost to a £40-a-night Airbnb cottage successful Masca with 2 older British men.

As helium tried to locomotion the 11 hours backmost to his hotel, Jay called champion person Lucy to accidental helium was lost, successful hopeless request of immoderate h2o and his telephone artillery was connected 1 per cent. 

It comes as:

• Jay Slater's person says 'we ain't cause mules' arsenic missing 19-year-old's parent issues update connected time 20 of Tenerife search 
• Jay Slater's household tin usage their ain search-and-rescue teams successful Tenerife hunt for missing 19-year-old, Spanish constabulary say 
• Jay's champion person broke her soundlessness to share a caller representation of the missing teen astir 3 weeks aft helium vanished successful Tenerife. 
• 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 

Yesterday, Jay's household were told by Spanish constabulary that they tin usage their ain search-and-rescue teams successful the Tenerife hunt for the missing 19-year-old. 
His devastated household antecedently told Sky News they were waiting for authorities to let them to usage immoderate of the £50,000 of donations, raised done a crowdfunding page, to wage for specialist hunt and rescue teams. 

The Guardia Civil past confirmed specified teams could beryllium brought successful from elsewhere 'without immoderate problem' to assistance with the hunt for the 19-year-old.

Today, utilizing whistles the radical could beryllium seen walking on the steep slopes of the vale successful the Parque Rural de Teno.

Clouds occasionally tumbled down the seaward facing mountains rapidly dissolving arsenic they met the blistery lukewarm aerial successful the valley.

Spanish constabulary antecedently focused their hunt for the teen connected the mountainous colony and Rural de Teno National Park successful north-west Tenerife wherever his telephone past pinged.

But connected June 30, the hunt and rescue ngo was dramatically called disconnected aft astir 14 days, leaving his hopeless household 'in the dark'. 

Spanish constabulary added that the Jay's household would person to notify them 'for bully absorption of accusation and resources' but that they had not received a petition yet.

Jay's household person antecedently been advised to money an autarkic hunt enactment aft Tenerife's Civil Guard ended their hunt for him 'prematurely'.

Army reservist and backstage investigator Juan García, is among those advising Jay's parent connected however to proceed with a backstage search. 

Speaking to the Times, helium said that 'two weeks is excessively premature to extremity the search'.

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

Earlier today, Slater's heartbroken parent Debbie Duncan besides issued a caller update. 

A station connected an authoritative Facebook radical read: 'Debbie and household would similar to convey the section hiking radical who person worked tirelessly readying routes and searching for Jay they are highly overwhelmed with the kindness of them all. Thank you.'

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

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

She 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. 

The 19-year-old had gone backmost to the distant cottage successful the colony of Masca with 2 British men successful the aboriginal hours of Monday greeting aft a rave successful Playa de las Americas connected June 17.

Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, near the £40-a-night 2 chamber spot called Casa Abuela Tina astatine 7.30am and posted 2 pictures from it connected Snapchat.

Spanish police dramatically called disconnected the hunt for Jay on Monday but said their probe into his disappearance was ongoing.

On July 3, 1 of the British men who the missing teen spent his last hours with claimed Jay Slater recovered himself astatine the Airbnb cottage astatine the centre of the enigma due to the fact that arsenic 'all his friends left him'.

Ayub Qassim says helium invited the apprentice bricklayer, 19, from Lancashire, backmost to his £40-a-night rented vacation cottage aft a rave successful Tenerife hours earlier helium vanished connected June 17.

The 31-year-old, who booked the Airbnb nether the sanction Ayub Abdul, broke his silence, telling MailOnline: 'He came to my Airbnb live and helium near my Airbnb alive.' 

MailOnline exclusively revealed that Qassim was jailed 9 years agone for being the mastermind down a blase cognition to flood Wales with Class A drugs.

Spanish constabulary searching for Jay spoken to Qassim and the unnamed person known lone arsenic 'Johnny Vegas' arsenic portion of their inquiries but concluded they were 'irrelevant' to the investigation. 

Jay was past seen by a witnesser walking disconnected successful hunt of a autobus halt adjacent to the Airbnb astatine astir 8am connected Monday, June 17. He called a person to accidental helium was making the 11-hour locomotion backmost to his edifice successful Playa de las Americas but has not been heard from since. 

Former detective Peter Bleksley criticised Spanish police, suggesting they may beryllium acrophobic a due probe would deed tourism connected the island. 

Earlier today, the teenager's person insisted they are 'not cause mules' arsenic the hunt for the missing 19-year-old nears the extremity of its 3rd week.

As conspiracy theories and fake videos person swirled astir connected societal media, Brad Hargreaves - who went connected vacation to Tenerife with Slater and described him arsenic his 'best mate' - has tried to acceptable the grounds straight.

After flying retired to the land for the three-day NRG euphony festival, Mr Hargreaves said helium has experienced vile trolls connected societal media, The Sun reports.

'Thinkin' I'm progressive successful it each is beyond me,' helium said. 'We've been mates for years, came connected our archetypal vacation unneurotic and unluckily this has happened.

'We ain't cause mules oregon whatever.... radical request to cognize the facts earlier talking s*** connected the internet...'