Jay Slater turned down a lift on the night he vanished. A former Metropolitan Police officer claims the missing teenager in Tenerife was offered a ride back to his resort but didn't want to wait.
The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished on Monday, June 17, after leaving a rave with two British men and spending the night at an Airbnb in a rural village.
Despite extensive search efforts, he has not been seen or heard from since he told a friend he was trying to return to the tourist town of Los Christianos.
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TV detective Mark Williams-Thomas has travelled to Tenerife to assist in the search for Jay and says he's spoken to Brit Ayub Qassim, 31, whose Airbnb Jay visited on the night he disappeared. Ayub's friend swiftly went to sleep when they got back.
Ayub told Mark how after meeting Jay at Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas, they headed back to the Masca holiday home where Jay was offered a sofa to crash on. Instead of staying the night, a hungry Jay left to make his way home.
According to Mark, Jay told convicted drug dealer Ayub – aka Johnny Vegas: "I'm hungry. I need to get a scran. And the woman told me I can get a bus every 10 minutes to Los Cristianos.
Mark added: “Ayub says, he says to him, mate, just chill out. I'll drop you off in town when I wake up properly. He [Jay] went, no, no, no, no. I'm hungry. I need to get a scran. And the woman told me I can get a bus every 10 minutes to Los Cristianos.
“He [Ayub] then says he gets a call from a friend of Jay's who says that he's in a ditch somewhere and he's been cut by a cactus.”
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