This is the first picture of a Briton who rented the Airbnb which missing raver Jay Slater visited just before he disappeared.
The man, using the name Ayub Abdul, booked the £40-a-night holiday rental online – and later hosted missing Jay at the holiday let in Tenerife just hours before he vanished.
Spanish police hunting for Jay have already spoken to Mr Abdul and his unnamed friend – and both men have been described as ‘irrelevant’ to their investigation.
Jay is known to have gone back to the remote cottage – called Casa Abuela Tina – at 5am on the day he vanished on June 17.
But he is known to have left the property at around 7.30am to catch a bus back towards his holiday apartment.
A witness said he asked her when the next bus was. When she told him the next one wasn’t until 10am, he is believed to have attempted to walk the 11 hours it would have taken him to get back to his holiday let.
The man and another who was travelling with him stayed an extra day after he vanished and spoke to police.
They gave the officers their details and fully cooperated with the investigation. Sources close to the inquiry have told MailOnline that the men are not relevant to Jay’s disappearance.
Last night, Jay Slater’s mother told of her ‘pain and agony’ of her son’s disappearance in Tenerife as she pleaded that ‘we just want to find him’.
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The men are understood to have met Jay, an apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, during the three-day New Rave Generation festival in the party island’s Playa de las Americas.
This is the first picture of a Briton who booked the Airbnb which Jay went back to with him and another man under the name Ayub Abdul
Jay Slater vanished on the island of Tenerife on June 17 after going back to the Airbnb following a night out
Missing Jay Slater’s parents Warren Slater and Debbie Duncan seen leaving the Guardia Civil in Playa de las Americas after a meeting with police
Mr Abdul booked the Casa Abuela Tina in the village of Masca around 19 miles from Playa de las Americas on June 14 for three nights and paid £120.
The Airbnb booking was made at 15.48 on June 14 and within 90 minutes the men were at the two-bedroom property which was where Jay later sent two Snapchat images from.
One showed him on the doorstep wrapped in a blanket and holding a cigarette while the other was a view of the valley below the property.
He then told friends he was going to try and walk back 11 hours after being told there was no bus for Playa de las Americas until 10am and was last seen walking uphill in the wrong direction.
Last night, Jay Slater’s mother Debbie Duncan, 55, issued an emotional plea saying ‘our beautiful boy’ had ‘his whole life ahead of him’.
The loving mother has been on the Spanish island since June 18, having flown out there a day after her son vanished.
In a statement, issued by British overseas missing persons charity LBT Global, Debbie gave an insight into what her son is like as a person, calling him a ‘normal guy’ who is a ‘very popular man with a large circle of friends’.
‘We are a very close family and are absolutely devastated about his disappearance,’ she said.
‘Words cannot describe the pain and agony we are experiencing. He is our beautiful boy with his whole life ahead of him and we just want to find him.’
She went on to thank the Spanish police’s ‘tireless’ efforts to find her missing son having scoured the terrain for 12 days.
And she took the opportunity to hit out at the ‘vile’ conspiracy theories that have swirled on social media and the internet about Jay’s disappearance, describing their impact on the family as ‘distressing’.
‘We do not have any information on his whereabouts,’ she added. ‘The Guardia Civil have worked tirelessly up in the mountains where Jay’s last phone call was traced.
‘They conducted a land search for 12 days which involved every resource they had available.
‘Although the land search ended, the Spanish police still continue with their investigations into why Jay had travelled to the location so far away from his accommodation.
‘We offer our sincere thanks to the Spanish authorities who continue to follow lines of enquiries.
‘We are aware of the conspiracy theories and speculation on social media and some websites, and can only describe this as vile, the negative comments are extremely distressing to our family.
‘We also embrace the love and support we have received from across the globe. It has not gone unnoticed, especially his home town in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire.’
Jay Slater, 19, is pictured with his mother Debbie Duncan who flew out to Tenerife with other family members when he went missing
Spanish police have returned to search the Airbnb (pictured) where Jay Slater stayed just before he disappeared in Tenerife more than two weeks ago
Jay Slater posted this Snapchat of himself standing on the steps of the Airbnb villa
The same steps can be seen on this close-up image of the Airbnb in Masca
Shortly after Jay disappeared his friend Lucy Law, 19, told MailOnline how she had ‘tracked’ the men down to their apartment using the Snapchat images Jay had sent her – arriving there at 11am two hours after he vanished.
She told MailOnline: ‘I asked them where Jay was.
‘They said he had gone out to look for cigarettes and the come back and he was leaving to try and get a bus back into town.’
Little else is known about the two men other than that they are black, British and in their late 30’s to early 40s.
The men were seen drinking Hennessey in bars and nightclubs in the party resort of Playa de las Americas during the three-day rave Jay, 19, attended before he went missing.
In a new development, two plain-clothes officers were sent to the property at 11am today. One officer (wearing sunglasses, left) is speaking to MailOnline’s Nick Pisa and the other (wearing green, right) is seen with a local
This is the two-bedroom property called Casa Abuela Tina where Jay Slater is believed to have spent the night
In its Airbnb listing Casa Abuela Tina is described as being a farmhouse within the ‘unique natural landscape’ surrounding it
It is known that Jay sent pictures of himself inside the house and from outside on Snapchat to his mum and friends
The Airbnb is in the village of Masca about 20 miles from the party spot of Playa de las Americas
MailOnline understands friends of Jay were sent a picture of him inside the car of the two men and this has been shared with investigating officers.
It has also emerged on social media that police are investigating the theft of a Rolex watch from outside Papagayo’s nightclub just hours before Jay vanished.
There is no suggestion apprentice bricklayer is involved in the theft but it is known that a large fight erupted outside Papagayo just as the NRG festival afterparty wrapped up.
The two men booked the Airbnb for the entirety of the NRG festival and were due to leave on June 17 but after Jay disappeared, they were asked to stay on an extra day.
Police questioned them at length, took their passport details and then allowed them to fly home and there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by them.
Friends of Jay have told MailOnline they sent Snapchat images of themselves at Gatwick Airport.
Before they left the two men were seen in the bar next to the apartment drinking coffee.
This was the final official search for Jay Slater on Saturday before Spanish police ended the hunt
Police had called for an army of volunteers to help on Saturday but only six turned up. Jay’s father and brother (pictured at back) also joined
The mountainside near Masca where the search parties gathered for two weeks was quiet on the hillside on Sunday as Spanish police called off the search
One of the Airbnb men is said to go by the nickname Johnny Vegas and one is described as around 6ft, stocky and with short dark hair.
Yesterday Jay’s parents urged the public to ‘keep it going’ after they left a briefing with Spanish officers.
Wearing dark sunglasses Debbie Duncan, 55, and Warren Slater, 58, spent two and a half hours with senior investigators who briefed them on how they planned to take the probe forward.
The meeting at the Guardia Civil HQ in Playa des las Americas on the holiday island of Tenerife came 16 days after the apprentice bricklayer was last seen on a mountain road an hour away in the isolated village of Masca.
Debbie was dressed in a pink linen shirt, black trousers with sliders and socks while Warren wore a Stone Island T shirt and shorts.
It was the first time the couple had been seen together since arriving in Tenerife to join the hunt for their son – Warren and Jay’s brother Zak have visited Masca several times but Debbie has so far refused.
Emerging from the building into the afternoon sunshine school finance officer Debbie said: ‘It’s a mystery and he’s still missing; we need to just let these guys get on with it.
‘We don’t know anything about the investigation we’re leaving it to the police.’
When asked if they would return to the police station Warren replied: ‘When they ask us to.’
Debbie then interjected:’ Let them (the police) get on with it, we’ve got to trust in these people.’
She urged the public to keep Jay in their thoughts and said:’ Keep it going, keep it alive.’
Earlier Jay’s friend Brad Hargreaves, 19, had spent three hours at the same police station with his mother Rachel, 34.
Jay’s father Warren along with with Jay’s mother Debbie and a number of his friends have flown to the Spanish island
Warren Slater (right), 58, and his son Zak (left), 24, pictured alongside volunteers at the remote mountain spot outside the village of Masca where Jay’s mobile phone last pinged
Speaking to media last week, TV sleuth Mark Williams-Thomas, who is working with the family, said: ‘I need to speak to those people [two men] because they are the last people, other than the owner of the holiday rental, that saw Jay.
‘They were in the bars of the strip area, certainly for two days, they mixed with Jay and Jay’s group of friends that were there. They spent time in bars there, they say they drank Hennessy, which was their preferred drink.
‘I know the nickname of one of those individuals. I have a photograph of that individual. He’s about 6ft tall, he’s quite stocky, he had a distinctive bright orange wristband on and he’s got quite short black hair.
‘It’s very difficult to tell but I think he’s probably aged around 30 to 40. One was slightly bigger and was much more chatty than the other.’