While on vacation in Tenerife, the 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was last seen on June 17 after he left to walk back to his lodging.
He has not been located in the last two weeks, despite copious searches by police and rescue crews.
The teen’s mother Debbie Duncan expressed her family’s “absolutely devastated” reaction to his absence in a statement sent through the British overseas missing persons charity LBT Global.
“Jay is a regular guy completing his third year of apprenticeship. He has a wide social circle and is a very popular young man.”
Being a close-knit family, we are heartbroken at his abduction.
Words cannot express the suffering and anguish we are going through. We just want to find him, since he is our lovely boy and has his entire life ahead of him.
When the apprentice bricklayer and his two pals arrived on the island on June 13 for the NRG music festival, searchers used helicopters, drones, and search dogs to locate them.
His last-known location was the Rural de Teno Park in the Canary Islands’ north, around an eleven-hour trek from his southern lodging.
After visiting an Airbnb in the village of Masca, he was informed that the two men who were supposed to have booked the home were subsequently deemed “not relevant” to it.
