A CONVICTED drug supplier who took Jay Slater again to his Airbnb earlier than he vanished is a part of a drill rapper’s entourage, The Solar can reveal.
Ayub Qassim, 31, was jailed for 9 years in 2015 because the ringleader of a London-based gang dealing heroin and crack cocaine in Cardiff.
The Solar may reveal that he’s carefully related to a authorized hashish cafe on Tenerife owned by his childhood good friend, acclaimed drill rapper Potter Payper.
A supply advised The Solar: “Ayub is one among Potter’s predominant guys. They go manner again and have been buddies again in London.
“They each grew up in Barking and combined in the identical circles.
“As soon as Potter opened up the hashish cafe in Tenerife he determined that Ayub was the man to run it.”
Ayub – and one other thriller man dubbed “Johnny Vegas” – have since been deemed “not related” to the case by Spanish police.
However calls are rising for them to step in and assist the seek for Jay – who has been lacking for 2 and a half weeks.
Initially, it was claimed that Jay went again to the rental with two males he had met on the night time, however Qassim advised reporters that Jay was a “cool man” who he knew by way of buddies.
He mentioned: “I let the geezer keep at mine as a result of he had nowhere else to go.
“His buddies had all left him.
“I do know Jay, by way of buddies, I am not going to convey somebody again to mine if I do not know them.
“I am doing the geezer a favour and now my face is all around the information. It’s kind of psychological. I have never even performed something.”
The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, had been at an all-night rave Playa de las Americas.
Jay, 19, went again to the distant cottage – referred to as Case Abuela Tina – at round 5am on June 17, simply hours earlier than he vanished.
Qassim, who booked the Airbnb below the surname Abdul, and his unnamed good friend spoke to Spanish police after Jay vanished earlier than flying again to the UK the next day.
Qassim added: “The one remark I’ve to make is that Jay got here to the home alive, and he left the home alive.
“If I might fallen out with him would he even come to mine?
It comes as…
“There have been no issues. You’ve got seen the final pictures of him along with his purple blanket round him.
“I do not know if he had beef elsewhere as a result of I do not know him that properly, I solely know him by way of buddies.”
However Jay’s dad Warren, 58, yesterday questioned why his teenage son ended up at a remote Airbnb with “two grown males”.
Qassim confirmed he had spoken to the Spanish authorities in Tenerife however says he was advised by overseas cops to not converse to anybody else.
Requested how properly he knew Jay and what he considered the theories surrounding his disappearance, Qassim mentioned: “Everybody is aware of one another. I am not going to slander anybody.
“He is a cool man, Jay. He ain’t acquired an issue with me, I have never acquired an issue with him or his mates.”
Qassim added that he and Jay’s friends all simply speak to one another and that “the whole lot was candy”.
Jay ‘left Airbnb feeling scared’
by Katie Davis
JAY Slater left the Airbnb he went to with two males feeling “scared” after admitting to stealing a £12,000 Rolex, an investigator claims.
Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas mentioned the 19-year-old didn’t need to return to the distant vacation let in northwest Tenerife regardless of having little telephone battery.
Apprentice bricklayer Jay, who had been at a rave all night time in Playa de las Americas, travelled north to the Airbnb in Masca village within the early hours of June 17.
Throughout the hour-long drive, Mark claims Jay posted a Snapchat saying he had taken a Rolex value £12,000 from an unknown particular person.
Police had been analyzing safety cameras at a seaside membership and speaking to witnesses about an alleged Rolex theft hours earlier than Jay vanished.
It was reported a brawl broke out on the Papagayo Seashore Membership within the early hours of June 17 after a “burly” Jap European man allegedly had his dear watch stolen.
Mark mentioned he and his workforce had been “unable to validate” Jay’s declare on Snapchat “by way of reported theft”.
He added: “Nevertheless buddies of Jay mentioned he wouldn’t make this up and the watch was topic of later dialog between the chums.”
In accordance with Mark, the host of the Airbnb advised Jay at round 8am there can be a bus two hours later.
Jay then tried to make his manner again to his vacation lodging, confronted with an 11-hour stroll.
Mark – who labored on the Madeleine McCann case – mentioned Jay talked to no less than three buddies through message and the telephone whereas trekking again, telling them he was misplaced.
At round 8.50am he made a last frantic name to good friend Lucy, saying he was within the “center of nowhere” with no water and had only one per cent battery on his telephone.
Mark mentioned in a video replace immediately: “He was advised to return by two folks to the rental.
“He mentioned he couldn’t try this and that he’d already been strolling for half-hour and that he was now off street and was strolling on a monitor the place there have been free stones.”
Mark has claimed Jay fled the vacation let and was “scared”.
He mentioned: “We now have obtained data that will counsel that Jay left the rental property feeling scared and he wouldn’t return to the rental, despite the fact that that will have been essentially the most wise plan of action, and in addition the place he may have charged his telephone, acquired some water and made contact with buddies.
“We proceed to analyze this facet.”
Qassim spoke to police the day after Jay vanished however minimize their vacation quick.
They gave officers their particulars and absolutely cooperated with the investigation.
When The Solar referred to as at Qassim’s household residence in Barking immediately, a relative mentioned he “didn’t need to say something” and insisted he insisted he had no inquiries to reply.
The Solar can reveal that Qassim is shut friends with MOBO award winner Potter Payper, 33.
A supply mentioned he even runs the rapper’s hashish cafe in Tenerife, referred to as Potter’s Backyard, in Las Americas.
In accordance with social media posts, the venue was damaged into and trashed about six weeks in the past.
Vacationers posted on social media that that they had met Ayub at an area cafe in Tenerife.
One mentioned: “On a regular basis I might go to the espresso store and see him working and chatting to the membership members retaining everybody cool and ensuring the whole lot was alright throughout folks’s time on the membership.
“We even went for a doob on the seaside a couple of occasions and in addition went out on an evening out collectively.”
One other commented: “I do know Ayub myself from working in espresso retailers.
“Ayub is a pleasant lad and has the time of day for anybody, all the time checking on others.”
Qassim grew up with drill rapper Potter – actual identify Jamel Bousbaa – and even joined him on stage to gather his MOBO for Greatest Album.
He might be seen sporting a turtleneck and chain along with his pal’s identify on because the rapper delivered an acceptance speech on the Utilita Area in Sheffield earlier this yr.
The file, Actual Again in Fashion, surged to no 2 on the UK Albums chart making Bousbaa a family identify.
Qassim additionally options in Bousbaa’s video for the track “Love Me How” – which options on the album.
He might be seen awkwardly hugging a pair of scantily clad ladies while on a yacht within the 2024 video.
The hashish cafe, Potter’s Backyard, is positioned on the island – not removed from the place Jay was final seen.
The bar is a personal “social membership” – which hashish is allowed to be consumed below Spanish Legislation.
Qassim – who grew up in Barking, East London, with Bousbaa – is known to have labored on the bar for a number of months.
Solely three months in the past footage emerged on-line of yobs breaking in and ransacking the bar.
Since Slater went lacking Potter’s Backyard has since taken down its Instagram web page.
Bousbaa can also be a convicted drug supplier, having pleaded responsible to working a county strains operation supplying crack and heroin in Clacton, Essex, in 2018, incomes him a 5 years and 4 months jail sentence.
The Solar contacted Bousbaa for remark.
A CONVICTED drug supplier who took Jay Slater again to his Airbnb earlier than he vanished is a part of a drill rapper’s entourage, The Solar can reveal.
Ayub Qassim, 31, was jailed for 9 years in 2015 because the ringleader of a London-based gang dealing heroin and crack cocaine in Cardiff.
The Solar may reveal that he’s carefully related to a authorized hashish cafe on Tenerife owned by his childhood good friend, acclaimed drill rapper Potter Payper.
A supply advised The Solar: “Ayub is one among Potter’s predominant guys. They go manner again and have been buddies again in London.
“They each grew up in Barking and combined in the identical circles.
“As soon as Potter opened up the hashish cafe in Tenerife he determined that Ayub was the man to run it.”
Ayub – and one other thriller man dubbed “Johnny Vegas” – have since been deemed “not related” to the case by Spanish police.
However calls are rising for them to step in and assist the seek for Jay – who has been lacking for 2 and a half weeks.
Initially, it was claimed that Jay went again to the rental with two males he had met on the night time, however Qassim advised reporters that Jay was a “cool man” who he knew by way of buddies.
He mentioned: “I let the geezer keep at mine as a result of he had nowhere else to go.
“His buddies had all left him.
“I do know Jay, by way of buddies, I am not going to convey somebody again to mine if I do not know them.
“I am doing the geezer a favour and now my face is all around the information. It’s kind of psychological. I have never even performed something.”
The apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, had been at an all-night rave Playa de las Americas.
Jay, 19, went again to the distant cottage – referred to as Case Abuela Tina – at round 5am on June 17, simply hours earlier than he vanished.
Qassim, who booked the Airbnb below the surname Abdul, and his unnamed good friend spoke to Spanish police after Jay vanished earlier than flying again to the UK the next day.
Qassim added: “The one remark I’ve to make is that Jay got here to the home alive, and he left the home alive.
“If I might fallen out with him would he even come to mine?
It comes as…
“There have been no issues. You’ve got seen the final pictures of him along with his purple blanket round him.
“I do not know if he had beef elsewhere as a result of I do not know him that properly, I solely know him by way of buddies.”
However Jay’s dad Warren, 58, yesterday questioned why his teenage son ended up at a remote Airbnb with “two grown males”.
Qassim confirmed he had spoken to the Spanish authorities in Tenerife however says he was advised by overseas cops to not converse to anybody else.
Requested how properly he knew Jay and what he considered the theories surrounding his disappearance, Qassim mentioned: “Everybody is aware of one another. I am not going to slander anybody.
“He is a cool man, Jay. He ain’t acquired an issue with me, I have never acquired an issue with him or his mates.”
Qassim added that he and Jay’s friends all simply speak to one another and that “the whole lot was candy”.
Jay ‘left Airbnb feeling scared’
by Katie Davis
JAY Slater left the Airbnb he went to with two males feeling “scared” after admitting to stealing a £12,000 Rolex, an investigator claims.
Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas mentioned the 19-year-old didn’t need to return to the distant vacation let in northwest Tenerife regardless of having little telephone battery.
Apprentice bricklayer Jay, who had been at a rave all night time in Playa de las Americas, travelled north to the Airbnb in Masca village within the early hours of June 17.
Throughout the hour-long drive, Mark claims Jay posted a Snapchat saying he had taken a Rolex value £12,000 from an unknown particular person.
Police had been analyzing safety cameras at a seaside membership and speaking to witnesses about an alleged Rolex theft hours earlier than Jay vanished.
It was reported a brawl broke out on the Papagayo Seashore Membership within the early hours of June 17 after a “burly” Jap European man allegedly had his dear watch stolen.
Mark mentioned he and his workforce had been “unable to validate” Jay’s declare on Snapchat “by way of reported theft”.
He added: “Nevertheless buddies of Jay mentioned he wouldn’t make this up and the watch was topic of later dialog between the chums.”
In accordance with Mark, the host of the Airbnb advised Jay at round 8am there can be a bus two hours later.
Jay then tried to make his manner again to his vacation lodging, confronted with an 11-hour stroll.
Mark – who labored on the Madeleine McCann case – mentioned Jay talked to no less than three buddies through message and the telephone whereas trekking again, telling them he was misplaced.
At round 8.50am he made a last frantic name to good friend Lucy, saying he was within the “center of nowhere” with no water and had only one per cent battery on his telephone.
Mark mentioned in a video replace immediately: “He was advised to return by two folks to the rental.
“He mentioned he couldn’t try this and that he’d already been strolling for half-hour and that he was now off street and was strolling on a monitor the place there have been free stones.”
Mark has claimed Jay fled the vacation let and was “scared”.
He mentioned: “We now have obtained data that will counsel that Jay left the rental property feeling scared and he wouldn’t return to the rental, despite the fact that that will have been essentially the most wise plan of action, and in addition the place he may have charged his telephone, acquired some water and made contact with buddies.
“We proceed to analyze this facet.”
Qassim spoke to police the day after Jay vanished however minimize their vacation quick.
They gave officers their particulars and absolutely cooperated with the investigation.
When The Solar referred to as at Qassim’s household residence in Barking immediately, a relative mentioned he “didn’t need to say something” and insisted he insisted he had no inquiries to reply.
The Solar can reveal that Qassim is shut friends with MOBO award winner Potter Payper, 33.
A supply mentioned he even runs the rapper’s hashish cafe in Tenerife, referred to as Potter’s Backyard, in Las Americas.
In accordance with social media posts, the venue was damaged into and trashed about six weeks in the past.
Vacationers posted on social media that that they had met Ayub at an area cafe in Tenerife.
One mentioned: “On a regular basis I might go to the espresso store and see him working and chatting to the membership members retaining everybody cool and ensuring the whole lot was alright throughout folks’s time on the membership.
“We even went for a doob on the seaside a couple of occasions and in addition went out on an evening out collectively.”
One other commented: “I do know Ayub myself from working in espresso retailers.
“Ayub is a pleasant lad and has the time of day for anybody, all the time checking on others.”
Qassim grew up with drill rapper Potter – actual identify Jamel Bousbaa – and even joined him on stage to gather his MOBO for Greatest Album.
He might be seen sporting a turtleneck and chain along with his pal’s identify on because the rapper delivered an acceptance speech on the Utilita Area in Sheffield earlier this yr.
The file, Actual Again in Fashion, surged to no 2 on the UK Albums chart making Bousbaa a family identify.
Qassim additionally options in Bousbaa’s video for the track “Love Me How” – which options on the album.
He might be seen awkwardly hugging a pair of scantily clad ladies while on a yacht within the 2024 video.
The hashish cafe, Potter’s Backyard, is positioned on the island – not removed from the place Jay was final seen.
The bar is a personal “social membership” – which hashish is allowed to be consumed below Spanish Legislation.
Qassim – who grew up in Barking, East London, with Bousbaa – is known to have labored on the bar for a number of months.
Solely three months in the past footage emerged on-line of yobs breaking in and ransacking the bar.
Since Slater went lacking Potter’s Backyard has since taken down its Instagram web page.
Bousbaa can also be a convicted drug supplier, having pleaded responsible to working a county strains operation supplying crack and heroin in Clacton, Essex, in 2018, incomes him a 5 years and 4 months jail sentence.
The Solar contacted Bousbaa for remark.