Jay Slater mountain rescue team from UK ‘awaiting permission’ to fly to Tenerife

Scottish mountain rescue teams are “awaiting police permission” to fly to Tenerife. Jay Slater volunteers are set to fly out to the Canary Islands to try and help in the hunt for the missing 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer, who hails from Lancashire, and who went missing back in mid-June.

Paul Arnott said: “So guys, I just want to give everyone a quick update in regards to me talking about attempting to bring a Scottish mountain rescue out here. Now I’ve [been] in touch with Scottish mountain rescue, I haven’t really been talking about it too much.

“However I’ve been speaking to a really, really kind woman this morning and the situation to be honest guys is Scottish mountain rescue would like to come out, they’d like to attend, they’ve been following everything very closely of course.”

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He said: “And they’re very impressed with what’s been going on, not only that, they wanted to say thank-you to everyone who’s been donating to the Scottish mountain rescue fund. We’ve raised quite a lot of money so thank you so much.

“In regard to the whole situation guys, basically they do want to come out, they can’t just fly over, it’s not as simple as that. For them to actually come over they need to have permission from Scotland Police. That’s how it works, so right now we’re trying to get permission, we’re trying to get authority from Scotland Police and we’ll see what happens.

“But Scottish mountain rescue are an amazing group of people, they’re fully behind us, they really want to come and help. It’s just a certain procedure that has to be done first guys.” Paul has previously dismissed the final police search for the British teenager as a “massive PR thing”.

Jay vanished after a night out in mid-June with pals in the holiday hotspot. David Cameron, the UK foreign secretary, said he was “thinking of and worrying about” Slater and that consular assistance was being given to the family.

On a campaign visit on Thursday to Rolls-Royce in Barnoldswick, Lancashire, Lord Cameron said: “Obviously I am thinking of and worrying about the family and this young man. Consular officials are there in Tenerife talking to the family, talking to the local authorities there and desperately keen that we make progress and find out what’s happened.”