Missing Jay Slater: A four-week mystery, a desperate family and the questions that remain unanswered

As the search for missing teenager Jay Slater continues into its fourth week, the 19-year-old's heartbroken family are still left without answers.

With official searches called off and his friends now starting to fly back home, the fight for closure by Jay's loved ones is far from over. Leads have so far proved fruitless; but Spanish police have insisted they are not giving up hope of finding him.

After major searches through the treacherous landscape of Masca and the Rural de Teno park, countless desperate appeals for information and offers of help from former detectives and mountaineering experts, the disappearance of Jay, from Lancashire, remains a mystery more than three weeks on.

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The 19-year-old vanished on June 17 after partying with his friends in the Playa de las Americas resort. He had travelled back to a remote Airbnb in Masca, around an hour's drive away, before reportedly walking off alone. He hasn't been seen since.

What followed was almost two weeks of hunting, involving mountain rescue teams, the Civil Guard, Civil Defence and fire crews, and countless resources including specialist sniffer dogs from Madrid and helicopters.

Jay's family and friends were simultaneously making their own desperate enquiries, putting up posters in nearby villages and sharing information about a possible - but unconfirmed - sighting of the teenager in the village of Santiago del Teide on the evening of June 17.

A public Facebook group, now with over 600,000 members, kept people regularly updated with the investigations' process. But with the case capturing the eyes of the world, it also welcomed social