Introduction us now to discuss this is missing persons expert Charlie Hedges good morning Charlie thanks for joining us what's the latest on J Slater this morning do you know please and also am I right in saying that the longer a missing person isn't found the lower the chance that we're going to get a good ending yes first of all on the um progress of the investigation um I've not not been there directly involved so I'm just picking up what's going on in the in the media so there seems to be continuing search activity at a high level concentrating on particular areas uh which is all good um yes as time passes um particularly if we think about the circumstances here it would the most likely thing at the moment is that he's wandered off and um succumb to lack of water in the difficult terrain would make it more difficult for him to survive but we mustn't close our minds to other scenarios as well Charlie because um Jay's mother spoke about a Snapchat that she received saying that her son owed somebody money or or something like that there there has been conspiracy theories surrounding this case as well hasn't there yes unfortunately that seems to be the the trend with these things now is for a lot of people to uh make assumptions create ideas about what might have happened um but uh I would never speculate on something that I'm not Direct ly involved in and I would urge other people not to do the same because it's it's damaging to the family and it is pure speculation because there are no no you can you you can only Conspiracy theories imagine can't you what Jay Slater's mother is going through but there have been just the cruelest conspiracy theories going around online what do you think it is about the British public you alluded to it there now when we see these cases of missing people that we do see these Facebook groups and WhatsApp groups crop up where people are wanting to be the the inspectors or the detectives El yes I think that when someone goes missing it i' also refer to as the classic mystery uh there are so many uned questions people want to find those answers and questions um and the being safe on the internet means you can say all sorts of things without direct criticism um and certain cases attract more attention than others this one seems to have generated a huge amount of attention so Charlie as a missing Most likely outcome person's expert what's your I know you can't speculate you know per se but what do you think is the most likely outcome here well the search must continue we should always keep hope and and in the eventuality we are going to find him but after six days missing in this sort of terrain um it is looking a little Bleak but as I say we must also keep our minds open to other options so that we're pursuing all options and yet all sorts of different outcomes and does this have Similarities to Michael Mosley any similarities to to um Dr Michael Mosley who of course went missing and was tragically found dead in Greece a couple of weeks back is there any similarities there well the fact that he went walking in rugged terrain with very high temperatures yes there are similarities um but um and there's been a few other cases in in Greece recently where people have wandered off and and have come to unfortunate end so yes I think there's a bit of a similarity between all of those cases yeah is that just people Terrain underestimating the terrain and the foreign countries perhaps yes I I mean it's very easy to wander off and get caught out by difficult terrain the high temperature if you haven't got sufficient water all these things can have a significant impact on the body's ability to deal with the terrain uh plus there's a high risk of tripping and falling in this sort of rugged area so they all contribute together to towards that s difficult situation okay Charlie Hedges missing person's expert thanks very much for your Insight it's an extraordinary story of course he was wearing a shirt shorts and a t-shirt after being at that music festival people were saying that in the mountain area where he was last thought to have been the temperature in night time is 1 degree and even colder during the daytime it's quite warm and his mother Debbie who's on the island now she was speaking to the daily mail yesterday um we had Nick pza the reporter from the mail on our show on brison's newom and he was saying that she now fears potentially that he's come to some other kind of harm maybe he's been she said the word kidnapped I mean I don't know what evidence she has for that but that was her sort of growing fear as the days go on you can only imagine what she's going through absolutely beside herself well let's hope that he's found safe and sound we of course will bring you any update that we have on GB news