Like Jay Slater, Steven Cook was on his first trip abroad without parents when he vanished.
The brother of a man who disappeared in Crete in 2005 have urged missing Jay Slater's family to "stick together" and "ignore the noise".
He said the 19-year-old's family "will have days where they reach rock bottom" and said it was vital for them to help each other through.Mr Cook, from near Northwich in Cheshire, told the BBC coverage of Mr Slater's case brought back "painful and emotional memories". Mr Cook said the turmoil of a missing loved one was compounded by the fact that it happened in a foreign country, with unfamiliar police procedures and language barriers.
"The unsubstantiated stuff, the noise in the background, does take your focus away from what you want to be doing", Mr Cook said."It weighs you down. Emotionally you reach the bottom of despair. But you have to think, 'right, it's with the police, I will do what I can do'."
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