Bloke who let Jay Slater keep at Airbnb offers 12-word assertion on lacking Brit

The Brit who let Jay Slater stay at his Airbnb has spoken out. Ayub Abdul insists Jay left the holiday home alive.

Tenerife rescue units were told to stop looking for Jay from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire last weekend, nearly two weeks after he went missing on June 17 following a weekend rave. His last known conversation was a call to his friend Lucy explaining he was lost on the Canary Island with only 1% battery left on his phone and didn’t have any water.

It is alleged the apprentice bricklayer travelled to an Airbnb in the remote village of Masca, named Casa Abuela Tina, at around 5am in the morning.

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The holiday house was being rented out online under the name Ayub Abdul, who is also known as Ayub Qassim.

Spanish police have questioned Qassim and an unnamed friend referred to as ‘Johnny Vegas’. Officials later said they were both ‘irrelevant’ to the investigation.

Qassim has now broken his silence with the public, hitting out at rumours he had ‘a problem’ with Slater, arguing they had no ‘beef’ and that he even offered Jay a blanket to sleep in.

“He came to my Airbnb alive and he left my Airbnb alive,” he told Mail Online. “I let the geezer stay at mine because he had nowhere else to go, his friends had all left him.

“I know Jay, through friends, I’m not going to bring someone back to mine if I don’t know them. I’m doing the geezer a favour and now my face is all over the news. It’s a bit mental. I haven’t even done anything.”

A witness claims to have spoken to Slater at around 7.30am on the morning he vanished. The teen allegedly asked what time the next bus arrived, which wasn’t scheduled until 10am. It is believed Slater then attempted to walk back to his holiday let, which would have taken a gruelling 11 hours.

Qassim currently resides in Barking, East London, and was sentenced for nine years and nine months back in 2015 for selling Class A drugs.

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