Lacing up her pink hiking boots, Livia Karczewski, a German lawyer, stares at the pumice-grey mountains ahead, now swallowed by thick blankets of clouds, where she has joined the search for Jay Slater. The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Lancashire has been missing in Tenerife for almost two weeks.
“I am a bit afraid,” she says before getting into a Spanish police car to drive down a beaten path deep inside the Rural de Teno national park, in the northwest of the island. “But I had to join because it could be my own son missing.”
Karczewski, 50, is one of only half a dozen “expert” volunteers who responded to a plea from the local police force, the Guardia Civil, on Friday, asking the public to
