Jay Slater missing: Teen's mother reveals new sighting of 19-year-old with two men in Tenerife

Jay's friends and family have raised concerns that he may have been taken against his will.

His mother, Debbie Duncan, flew to Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands, on Tuesday morning to search for him.

Ms Duncan said she feared her son, who is an apprentice bricklayer, had “been taken against his will”.

She said: “It’s just traumatic and it doesn’t feel real. It's just horrible, it's horrible. I think he was arrested against his will with what was said, but that's in the hands of the police.

She added that the police who carried out the search had been “very efficient”.

A specialist mountain rescue team, including a police helicopter, was deployed to search for Jay.

A Civil Guard spokesperson said it was focusing on the area around the village of Masca, which is close to its last known location in the north.

On Wednesday, authorities briefly shifted their search to the south of the island, near where Jay was staying with friends in the tourist hotspots of Los Cristianos and Playa de Las Americas.

However, they later returned the search to Teno Rural Park after Jay's alleged sighting was deemed false.