THE dad of missing Jay Slater yesterday mounted his own search for the teenager and said: "You just don't disappear." Warren Slater, 58, spent two hours hiking through the ravine where Jay's phone last "pinged" 16 days earlier.
He said: "It's just ridiculous that somebody can just disappear.
"He's a young boy, he's fit. He's played football all his life, he's fit as a flea. You just don't disappear. I don't know... it's just a mystery... it's baffling"
Warren was speaking after TV investigator Mark Williams-Thomas claimed Jay was scared leaving a rental property after alledgedly taking a £12,000 Rolex watch.
The dad was with his older son Zak, 24, and one of Jay's uncles as he said: "We've been all the way down. We've walked as far as you can until it's too dangerous.
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