TENERIFE cops have said Jay Slater’s family can bring in their own search teams to find the missing teenager.
The Brit vanished on June 17 and police called off their efforts to find him in the mountains last Sunday.
Jay Slater, 19, has been missing in Tenerife for more than two weeks
Now, 18 days after he disappeared, Spanish police have authorised the family to deploy their own rescue force.
The family told Sky they hope to use some of a GoFundMe – now up to almost £50,000 – to fund a fresh search.
Apprentice bricklayer Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last heard from on the morning of June 17.
He phoned his friend Lucy to tell her he was “lost in the middle of nowhere” after going back to a remote Airbnb with two British men the night before.
After missing the bus, he started walking the 11-hour route back to his accommodation and disappeared in the rural mountains.
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