'That's just suspicious': Jay Slater's uncle speaks out in Tenerife search on major theory

One of Jay Slater's close family members has said that he has 'been thinking third party involvement from the start' as the search for the missing teenagers goes into its third week.

Glen Duncan, the youngster's uncle, joined other family members in a renewed search for the 19-year-old from Lancashire. The group endured several hours under a scorching 25C temperature as they searched the valley close to the village of Masca, at the heart of the mountainous terrain in Tenerife where Jay vanished.

Mr Duncan has branded every passing day as 'just torture' as the devastated family waits for news. Speaking about the online trolls spreading horrifying rumours, Mr Duncan said: "I'm not on social media or anything so I can just block it out. It's the world we live in. If he's gone on a trail like a path like this and he's got lost there or fallen down I think he would have been found by now."

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But Mr Duncan told of his suspicions, saying: "I've been thinking third party involvement from the start. There's just some things that have already been out there. Why would two lads hire a villa up here? They're down on the strip, you know what it's like down there.

"There's millions of apartments and hotels down there in Los Cristianos and Las Americas. Straight away, that's just suspicious in itself. Then apparently one who has been found came out and said he arrived alive and left alive. That line in itself is suspicious. The fact he has come out and said all his mates have left him and he had nowhere to go, he was 10 minutes from his apartment in Los Cristianos. He's not stupid. If he didn't have a room