New information about the disappearance and death of Jay Slater in Tenerife has emerged today following the release of a new podcast by an investigator who worked on the case

 

Shocking new details and eyewitness testimony has emerged about the Jay Slater case – including his last conversation with a friend before he went missing on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

Jay is believed to have gone to an Airbnb apartment in the early hours, and then subsequently vanished and was reported missing on June 18.

His body was found in a steep and inaccessible area by a mountain rescue team from the Spanish Civil Guard near the village of Masca on July 15. Now, investigator Mark Williams-Thomas has revealed new details about the case.

 

Jay Slater investigator’s key theory on what led to death of missing teen

An investigator looking into the circumstances surrounding Jay Slater’s final hours has shared a new theory about what led to his death.

Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas said the key to knowing why Jay, 19, ended up in the north of the Spanish island of Tenerife, far away from his accommodation, was easy to understand. A post-mortem found Jay had consumed alcohol and drugs in the hours before he fell down a ravine. His disappearance on June 17 triggered a massive manhunt before his body was discovered on July 15 last year.

Mark-Williams added: “Jay was still buzzing at 6am from the alcohol and drugs but his friends wanted to go home, so when Qassim (a friend) told Jay that he could go back to theirs and continue partying he jumped at the chance.”

Jay had ‘traces of MDMA, cocaine and ketamine’ in his system

According to toxicology reports, Jay had been under the influence of drugs and alcohol when he died, with traces of MDMA, cocaine and ketamine found in his system. His body was found in the remote village of Masca on July 15, with severe head injuries consistent with a fall from a significant height.

Ayub Qassim told Mark Williams-Thomas that the teen was under the influence of drugs. Qassim then phoned a mutual friend Brandon, telling the mutual friend: “Look Brandon one of your mates yesterday walked away because he is f***ed off with the ket and he went missing.”

Mr Williams-Thomas explained: “When Qassim said ket he is referring to ketamine and my information is that this drug was readily available and Jay had definitely been using it.

“I had further information about the supply of ketamine into the country. In the UK ketamine is a class b drug, carrying a maximum of five years for possession and 14 years for supply.” He also gave a break down of prices saying that a gram of ketamine costs around 50 euros.

Last Snapchat Jay sent pal on morning he vanished

Investigator Mark Williams-Thomas has revealed new details about the case – including a final chat between Jay and a pal Brandon Hodgson, who was partying with the teenager on the night before he went missing.

The two were messaging and talking on Snapchat video from the Airbnb rental in Masca on the morning that Jay left the secluded building and vanished. Brandon told Mark Williams-Thomas how he called Jay when he decided to walk back to Los Cristianos, where he was originally staying – a distance that would take approximately 10-11 hours on foot. “He said, ‘I’ve started walking’, he was laughing at first, then he sent me his location,” said Brandon.

“On the phone he said to me ‘I’ve been walking for half an hour’, I told him to go back and he said, ‘I’ve already been walking for half an hour, I’m not going back, I don’t want to go back, I just want to go home.”

Airbnb host speaks on Jay’s ‘mad’ plan before he disappeared

Ayub Qassim, the man who rented out the AirBnB to Jay, said he spoke with the teenager on the morning of his disappearance. Qassim recounted: “He (Jay) said to me ‘Pal I’m off, this woman told me I can get a bus every 10 minutes’, I told him that he’s mad, there’s no bus that’s coming here every 10 minutes, chill out for a bit and I’ll drop you off later on.

“He said, ‘No, no I’ve got to go to Los Cristianos, I need to scram, I need to chip out’. There’s nothing more that I could do. I saw him walk off maybe down the steps. I maybe shut the door and said if you need me..” The last sighting of Jay alive was in Lancashire when he sent a pal an photo on Snapchat, showing two knives at the AirBnB with the message: “I’ve got these for my protection”.

When questioned about the photograph, Mr Qassim said: “I was asleep upstairs this is the first I’ve heard of knives,” and added, “I let him come to my house.”

Mr Qassim did not attend the inquest concerning Jay’s death which took place last month.

Why was the inquest into Jay’s death adjourned?

An inquest into Jay’s death was adjourned last week after his mum Debbie plead for more witnesses to come forward.

She said: “We want these people to be sat in front of us, because our son went on holiday and didn’t come back, so there’s questions we need to ask.”

Last person to see Jay Slater alive says ‘he walked off alone and not carrying anything’

Mark Williams-Thomas went to speak to the woman who looked after the Airbnb rental where Jay Slater stayed before he disappeared.

She told him that she had told him where he could catch a bus back to the south of Tenerife and then she saw him walk off up the hill on his own.

Mr Williams-Thomas tells how Jay indicated to her that he wanted to catch a bus with the language barrier.

“She said 10am to him and showed him where the bus stop is but it is very obvious anyway and she said that she then saw him walk off up the hill,” said Mr Williams-Thomas.

“If he was walking back to Los Cristianos he would have walked off that way, but for some reason he walked off up the hill. She said she didn’t see him after that, he was alone, he wasn’t carrying anything and he definitely wasn’t with anyone else.

“She said at that stage, the two black men, she believed, where inside asleep, I couldn’t understand why she knew that for certain but she said they were inside and she didn’t see him again.”

Jay tells pal ‘I’m not going back’ to Airbnb rental

Brandon Hodgson was partying with Jay Slater on the night before he disappeared and the friend has revealed the final conversation between the pair the following morning.

The two were messaging and talking on Snapchat video from the Airbnb rental in Masca on the morning that Jay disappeared. And then Brandon told Mark Williams-Thomas how he called Jay when he had decided to walk.

“He said, ‘I’ve started walking’, he was laughing at first, then he sent me his location,” said Brandon.

“On the phone he said to me ‘I’ve been walking for half an hour’, I told him to go back and he said, ‘I’ve already been walking for half an hour, I’m not going back, I don’t want to go back, I just want to go home.”

Search expert says of the route taken by Jay Slater – ‘there’s no going back’

Volunteers who helped with the search for Jay Slater described the route he would have taken as “steep and dangerous”.

Jay’s remains were discovered four weeks later and it appeared he had been walking for three and-a-half hours before plummeting to his death in the Juan López ravine, some 10km from the shoreline.

Marieke Krans, a volunteer with Dutch search and rescue non-profit Signi Zoekhonden, came over from the Netherlands to Preston Coroner’s Court to recount the search efforts for an inquest last month.

“We got some clothes from Jay and we used them for the scent for the dogs,” Marieke revealed. When asked by Lancashire’s Senior Coroner Dr James Adeley if the search dogs could still pick up a scent four weeks later, she confirmed: “Yes they can.”

The volunteers from Signi Zoekhonden initiated their search “at the top of the ravine” near where Jay’s mobile phone last ‘pinged’. The group then divided into two teams.

When asked about the terrain, Marieke described it as “really steep, really dangerous”, estimating that it would have taken someone approximately three and-a-half hours to walk to where Jay’s body was discovered.

The coroner enquired what Marieke could see at the location, to which she replied: “You have to go forwards. There’s no going back.”

Marieke then stated that she could “imagine [Jay] thought he was going to make it”, and further mentioned: “There was no reason why you would go there unless you were on your way to the sea. He must have walked there himself because you can’t carry someone down there.”

The rough terrain where Jay disappeared (Image:Stan Kujawa)

Jay Slater’s mum says she is ‘haunted’ by images of her son at nightclub

Jay Slater’s devastated mother is “haunted” by videos of her son raving the night before he vanished.

Debbie Duncan, 56, said she has “never, ever seen him like that before” as she described footage, in which bare-chested Jay, 19, is seen swaying about on the dance floor at Papagayo nightclub in Playa de las Americas, Tenerife.

Jay went there with friends for the final night of the NRG music festival and clips were shared on social media after Jay disappeared, showing him on the crowded dance floor, with music blaring in the background.

One video showed Jay walking through a sea of clubbers with sunglasses propped on his head. In another, the teen could be seen with his shirt hanging around his neck, seemingly unsteady on his feet.

Debbie said: “The videos I’ve seen absolutely haunt me, because I’ve never, ever seen him like that before… There’s a video of him, kind of staggering back and he has never been in that state.

“Obviously at these events, drugs are knocking around and lots of people are taking them. I don’t know whether he was taking drugs that night or not, but I’m not going to deny that people at these events take drugs and there are drugs at those kind of resorts.”

AirBnB host gives reason why missing teen left property

Mark Williams-Thomas has revealed he spoke to Ayub Qassim who had rented the AirBnB about the last time he spoke to Jay, on the morning he left,

Mr Qassim said: “He (Jay) said to me ‘Pal I’m off, this woman told me I can get a bus every 10 minutes’, I told him that he’s mad, there’s no bus that’s coming here every 10 minutes, chill out for a bit and I’ll drop you off later on.

“He said, ‘No, no I’ve got to go to Los Cristianos, I need to scram, I need to chip out’. There’s nothing more that I could do.

“I saw him walk off maybe down the steps. I maybe shut the door and said if you need me…”

That was the last time Jay was seen alive.

Jay Slater pal Lucy Law says she had no idea inquest taking place

Lucy Law, who was on holiday with Jay Slater when he died, had no idea his inquest was taking place last month nor that police were trying to track her down as a witness.

An inquest into his death last summer had to be adjourned after a plea from his tearful mother. Debbie Duncan said the 19-year-old had gone on holiday and never come home, and told the hearing she still had questions that needed answers.

A number of witnesses were asked to give evidence at the hearing at Preston Coroner’s Court but have either not been traced or were unable to attend despite extensive efforts, the court was told.

The group included Lucy Law, who was travelling with Jay on the fateful trip to Tenerife, but her stepfather Andy Davis said she had no idea that the inquest was taking place. She is understood to currently be on holiday in Tenerife once again.

Speaking from the family home in Burnley, Lancashire, Mr Davis said: “The police have only just been round today to say that she was due to give evidence. But it’s the first time we knew of it… We had no idea Jay’s inquest was even being held today.”

Airbnb where Jay Slater stayed on night before disappearance changes name

The Airbnb where Jay Slater slept shortly before going missing has been renamed in a bid to distance it from the teenager’s tragic death.

The apprentice bricklayer, 19, stayed inside the holiday let before leaving on foot and vanishing in mountains before his body was eventually discovered after 28 days last summer.

Speaking from an upstairs window, a man, believed to be the property‘s owner, claimed he could not speak English. When asked if he could come downstairs to speak, he replied ‘no’ and closed the window. A local, who did not give their name, told us: “What happened was very sad, but everyone here just wants to move on.”

The two-bed property, in the remote village of Masca, was named Casa Abuela Tina at the time of Jay’s disappearance. It has now been christened Casa El Turron, which is now emblazoned on a piece of wood fixed to the exterior wall.

 

The holiday rental where Jay Slater stayed (Image:MEN Media)

What is the drug scene on the holiday hotspot where Jay Slater was staying?

Mark Williams-Thomas spoke to a drug dealer who gave a rundown of what it is like on Playa de las Americas, where the main strip of nightclubs is based.

The former detective found out that it is mainly Morrocans who are selling the drugs to tourists.

“Moroccans run the drugs, there isnt a big dog, it isn’t like gangland, it’s like you are one of them, everyone knows everyone, you see them having drinks, everyone drinks from the same bars, there aren’t really rules,” said the drug dealer.

“It’s just, like, you don’t mess with the Morrocans, no big cheese, it’s not a turf war, not like a Pablo Escobar, it’s just a normal island, no gangsters, mafia, the only thing you need to watch out for, like anywhere in the world, if you sell drugs in a club. If you get caught they are going to throw you out like in England.”

 

Playa de las Americas in the south of Tenerife (Image:Getty Images)

The inquest into Jay Slater’s death was adjourned after his mum made a tearful plea for witnesses

An inquest into the 19-year-old’s death in was adjourned last week at the request of his mum Debbie, who said it must not go ahead until multiple key witnesses are tracked down to give evidence.

In a tearful plea she called for witnesses who had been with her son on the island to tell what they knew. She said: “We want these people to be sat in front of us, because our son went on holiday and didn’t come back, so there’s questions we need to ask.”

She said the inquest must not go ahead until multiple key witnesses are tracked down to give evidence. It included her son’s friend Lucy Law, who is reported to currently be holidaying on the island, as well as Brandon Hodges and Bradley Hargreaves. Ayub Qassim and Steven Roccas, who rented an Airbnb that Jay visited just hours before his death and were not present at the inquest.

In what could prove a major obstacle in the Slater family’s search for answers, police have now admitted they have no power to force any witnesses to attend the inquest.

Why did Jay Slater go to the Airbnb in the north of Tenerife?

Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas says the answer to why Jay Slater went off to the north of Tenerife after partying was “simple” to understand.

“Jay was still buzzing at 6am from the alcohol and drugs but his friends wanted to go home, so when Qassim told Jay that he could go back to theirs and continue partying he jumped at the chance,” he claimed.

Looking further into what happened that night when Jay said he had a “marker” on him, Mr Thomas-Williams believes that could have been “paranoia”.

He said: “2.35am – Jay sent a cryptic text to a friend saying ‘they’ve got a marker on me’, the friend replied at 3am with the message ‘you need to go home lad you’re off your barnet’. Jay then replied ‘you think I’m going home you must be disabled’.#”

Mr Thomas-Williams continued: “We know that at this stage Jay was very heavily under the influence of drink and drugs and it is highly likely that some paranoia was present because his friends were saying he was not making much sense and being argumentative which was very unlike Jay.

“Jay had no official marker on him, and yes he was around people selling drugs and he could have upset people that morning because of his state.”

He added that his investigation at the Airbnb: “Strongly rules out third party involvement (in Jay’s death) from the time he was at the rental.”

Class A drugs readily available on infamous Tenerife strip

The Mirror’s Patrick Hill, who spent nearly a month in Tenerife investigating the teenager’s disappearance last summer, returned to the island three weeks ago after an inquest found Jay had taken a cocktail of Class-A drugs before he died in order to see how easy it was to obtain the narcotics.

It took a street dealer less than TEN SECONDS to offer our reporter drugs after he stepped out of a taxi onto Tenerife’s infamous Veronicas strip at 11pm on a Thursday night.

He said: “He offered me cocaine for €80 (£67) a gram, MDMA, known as ecstasy, for €60 (£50) and cannabis for the same price. Just seconds after I declined and walked about ten yards further along the strip, another man, with a southern English accent, also tried to sell me cocaine.”

Toxicologist Dr Stephanie Martin also told the inquest last month that more than one drug was present in Jay Slater’s body.

Although tests when someone who has been dead for some time are “extremely challenging”, she determined that Jay had ecstasy in his system at the time of his death.

Also present was a cocaine metabolite, which is present when cocaine is taken at the same time as the consumption of alcohol.

Dr Martin says it is impossible to say exactly when Jay took the drugs but it is “likely within a day or so of his death.” The Spanish authorities also carried out their own toxicology tests on Jay’s body. Dr Martin said: “The only difference between our results and their results is that they found ketamine and its metabolites.”

11:53Tim Hanlon

Jay may have died ‘in an instant’ with injuries consistent with fall from a height

Jay Slater’s body was found at a ravine near the village of Masca nearly a month after he went missing and an inquest last month heard how he died from a head injury.

Home Office pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd said Jay may have died “in an instant” after falling into the ravine, stating the fall would have had an “immediate and devastating effect on Jay’s consciousness”.

He added that the teen had sustained “severe” injuries before concluding the official cause of death was a head injury, agreeing with an earlier consensus offered by Spanish pathologists.

He said: “The injuries were so severe I have not doubt he would have been instantly unconscious from the moment of that blow to the head. Death could well have been instant the injury was so severe. Jay would undoubtedly be unconscious and unaware. It’s most likely death would have occurred instantly or extremely soon afterwards.”

The mountainous terrain where Jay went missing (Image:

Airbnb where Jay Slater slept changed name as locals ‘want to move on’

The property became a grim tourist attraction in the weeks after his disappearance, with ghoulish British tourists keen to see the spot where Jay was last seen alive.

The two-bed property, in the remote village of Masca, was named Casa Abuela Tina at the time of Jay’s disappearance. It has now been christened Casa El Turron, which is now emblazoned on a piece of wood fixed to the exterior wall.

Speaking from an upstairs window, a man, believed to be the property’s owner, claimed he could not speak English. When asked if he could come downstairs to speak, he replied ‘no’ and closed the window. A local, who did not give their name, said: “What happened was very sad, but everyone here just wants to move on.”

 

Vile messages sent to Jay Slater’s mum of teen ‘being held hostage’ and ‘killed’

Jay Slater’s mum received horrific messages online while the search was taking place in Tenerife for her son.

Debbie Duncan was sent doctored images which claimed to be of Jay and later found to be fakes. And a person who repeatedly messaged her saying how Jay was a “hostage” and then detailed how he had killed him, turned out to be schoolboy from Bournemouth, says Mark Williams-Thomas.

The former detective said: “Debbie also got contacted on several occasions by someone claiming to be holding Jay hostage and threatening to harm Jay, unbelievably this person went on to send another text to Debbie the day after Jay’s body had been found claiming to have killed Jay and describing the injuries he had afflicted on him.

“Like with the other horrible messages sent to Debbie, we investigated the sender and were able to trace that the individual was a 15-year-old boy from Bournemouth.”

 

Remote area where Jay Slater’s body was found is called “the lost village”

The remote region of Masca near where Jay Slater’s body was found is notoriously rugged and treacherous, locals have said. The tiny hamlet clings to the rocky outcrops of North Western Tenerife in the far-flung Parque Rural de Teno, with locals calling it the “lost village” as it didn’t even have a road connection until the 1990s.

It is one of the most remote parts of Tenerife, and in the past few years more rescues have been carried out here than anywhere else in the Canary Islands, according to the website of the Masca visitors centre.

Speaking at the time of his disappearance a worker at the visitor centre in Masca described the remote area saying: “There’s a lot of people that usually get lost here, there’s a lot of forest. We’ve already had a lot of news of tourists getting on trails they shouldn’t have and getting lost. I’ve seen a lot of helicopters flying around the rural park for years.”

Qassim claims Jay Slater ‘went missing after taking ketamine’

Ayub Qassim says that he took Jay Slater back to the Airbnb and claims that the teen was under the influence of drugs.

At one point Jay is alleged to have got out of the car to urinate and then wouldn’t get back inside. And Mr Qassim told Mark Williams-Thomas, that he phoned a mutual friend Brandon.

He said how through a phone call Brandon tried to reason with Jay and then Mr Qassim claims he told the mutual pal: “Look Brandon one of your mates yesterday walked away because he is f***ed off with the ket and he went missing.”

Mr Williams-Thomas explained: “When Qassim said ket he is referring to ketamine and my information is that this drug was readily available and Jay had definitely been using it.

“I had further information about the supply of ketamine into the country. In the UK ketamine is a class b drug, carrying a maximum of five years for possession and 14 years for supply.” He also gave a break down of prices saying that a gram of ketamine costs around 50 euros.

 

Mark Williams-Thomas has investigated the death of Jay Slater (Image:Stan Kujawa)

‘He took two kitchen knives from the Airbnb and put them down his pants’

Lucy Law told how Jay Slater had said he was “going on a mission” the night before his disappearance and then sent a photo carrying knives to a friend the following day.

“On the night before, when i was still awake, before we went home, he messaged me saying ‘I’m going on a mission’, then I’ve gone home, tried to find him…,” she told Mark Williams-Thomas.

“Woke up to the call from Brandon in the morning ‘oh my God he’s in the mountains, trying to walk…. He’s said ‘can’t go back there, can’t go back there’ (referring to the Airbnb rental where he had stayed).”

Lucy then spoke to Jay and told him: “Go back to where you came from, do you know anything about where you are?”

She then talked to Josh, who was a friend of Jay and staying in Tenerife, who had received the photo of the teenager carrying the knives. Lucy said that Jay had met Josh on the plane to the holiday island.

“He sent the video to Josh,” said Lucy, of the footage showing Jay with the knives. “Took the kitchen knives from the Airbnb and put them down his pants, lifted his top up and shown it to him ‘Just in case anything kicks off’. I’m like…”

She added: “It could have just been a coincidence but with him also saying about going on a mission…”

10:22Tim Hanlon

Ayub Qassim denies seeing Jay Slater with a Rolex watch but ‘mad’ so many missing

Ayub Qassim said that he “never saw” Jay Slater with a Rolex watch but added it was “mad” that many were stolen on the nightclub strip where the teenager had gone out.

He told Mark Williams-Thomas: “I never saw him with a watch, I never saw him nick a watch. I was on my way home and thinking ‘who’s buying a watch … 6.30am. It’s mad that Veronica’s strip (Playa de las Americas) around nine watches going missing.”

Mr Williams-Thomas added: “What’s interesting is that just two months earlier a burglary took place at the coffee shop that Qassim worked at the Potter Payper Cafe, the shop was ransacked and some of Potter’s music awards stolen along with a Rolex watch.

“The burglary was filmed and released online, leading to speculation that the stolen watch in the video was the same watch that Jay had referred to taken from someone in his Snapchat video.

“While we have been unable to confirm if this is connected in anyway, it does seem very unlikely as the burglars had already returned to the UK and filmed themselves smashing Potter’s awards on the ground in London in view of the London Eye.” Potter Payper is a rapper and songwriter from London.

 

Jay Slater admitted stealing £12,000 Rolex on night out

Jay Slater admitted stealing a £12,000 Rolex and was pictured with knives before he was found dead in a remote national park in Tenerife last June, an inquest heard last month.

The 19-year-old suffered catastrophic injuries consistent with a steep fall in a rocky area, with his remains finally found a month after search and rescue teams scoured an area near the quiet Spanish village of Masca.

The teenager had vanished after attending the NRG music festival on the Spanish island with pals. An inquest into his death on Wednesday heard claims that Jay stolen a Rolex worth an estimated £12,000 before he went missing.

Between 5:03am and 5:52am on the morning Jay vanished, a message was sent from his phone saying: “Just took a £12k Rolly off some **** off to get 10 quid for it now.”

The inquest heard Jay sent a message to witness Josh Forshaw where he said: “Ended up getting thrown out with two Mali kids, just took an AP [expensive watch strap] off somebody and was on the way to sell it.”

‘That’s all weird, he left in a hurry with two knives down his pants’

Lucy Law is understood to have posted an appeal for help on a Tenerife Facebook page after losing contact with Jay Slater.

She tried to find out the location of the Airbnb rental from the backdrop of an image she had received from Jay before his phone had died. Lucy was given a lift to the spot by a woman who responded to the appeal.

Lucy told Mark Williams-Thomas how she spoke to a woman who asked about a bus that would go to the south of Tenerife.

She said: “I spoke to a woman who lived next door, bearing in mind her brother owns the Airbnb, she said to me ‘I saw him at the bus stop, he said he was getting the bus’, but never said she had seen him walk up the hill, she didn’t say that.”

Lucy said how the woman emphasised how he walked in marching fashion and quickly. She added: “I just think that’s all weird, he has left in a hurry with two knives down his pants and he’s been fine?”

The holiday rental in Masca where Jay stayed (Image:Stan Kujawa)

Jay said he was going to walk back to his hotel when he disappeared

Jay Slater was found dead in the Juan Lopez ravine on July 15, more than a month after he was reported missing in mid-June, near the remote village of Masca in Tenerife.

He had stayed the night there at an Airbnb with two men after attending the NRG music festival in Playa de las Americas, and opted to start walking back to his accommodation on the opposite side of the island after missing a bus.

His body was found in a steep and inaccessible area by a mountain rescue team from the Spanish Civil Guard.

An inquest was told that traces of drugs, including cocaine, ketamine and ecstasy, were found in Mr Slater’s body and pathologists concluded his death from head injuries was consistent with a fall.

 

A rescue team looking for Jay Slater (Image:BBC)

Jay tells pal ‘I’m not going back’ to Airbnb rental

Brandon Hodgson was partying with Jay Slater on the night before he disappeared and the friend has revealed the final conversation between the pair the following morning.

The two were messaging and talking on Snapchat video from the Airbnb rental in Masca on the morning that Jay disappeared. And then Brandon told Mark Williams-Thomas how he called Jay when he had decided to walk.

“He said, ‘I’ve started walking’, he was laughing at first, then he sent me his location,” said Brandon.

“On the phone he said to me ‘I’ve been walking for half an hour’, I told him to go back and he said, ‘I’ve already been walking for half an hour, I’m not going back, I don’t want to go back, I just want to go home.”

‘I’ve never walked down a street where you can smell cannabis to the degree it is here’

Mark Williams-Thomas said he went to check for CCTV from inside the Papagayo nightclub in the resort of Playa de las Americas and he was surprised by the smell of drugs on the strip.

He revealed that he was told to come back later and then also enquired at another club opposite which didn’t have CCTV.

“I went to a club just across the road which is a club that we know Jay went to, and we know Jay was with the two black men, interestingly enough no CCTV inside, you have to question why,” he said.

“Less than 30 seconds after getting out of the vehicle I was approached by a number of men offering me drugs, offering me cannabis, cocaine straight away, actually it is rife along the street. I’ve never walked down a street where you can smell cannabis to the degree it is here, so prevalent, and there are police driving around, no one cares, no one cares at all.”

Jay Slater’s ‘photo of two knives’ for his ‘protection’

Mark Williams-Thomas tried to get to the bottom of a photo that Jay Slater had sent to a friend on Snapchat where he had two knives at the Airbnb and said “I’ve got these for my protection”.

But asked about the photo Ayub Qassim said that he know nothing about it. “I was asleep upstairs this is the first I’ve heard of knives,” he said. “I let him come to my house.”

Revealing his conversation with Jay on the morning he left, Mr Qassim said: “He (Jay) said to me pal I’m off, this woman told me I can get a bus every 10 minutes, I told him that he’s mad, there’s no bus that’s coming here every 10 minutes, chill out for a bit and I’ll drop you off later on.

“He said: ‘No, no I’ve got to go to Los Cristianos, I need to scram, I need to chip out’. There’s nothing more that I could do. I saw him walk off maybe down the steps. I maybe shut the door and said if you need me…”

Ayub Qassim tells how he became ‘public enemy number one’

Ayub Qassim, who rented out the Airbnb in Masca where Jay stayed after the festival, told Mark Williams-Thomas how he became “public enemy number one”.

Speaking to the former detective he first of said he was in contact with friends and family of Jay. “Lucy (Law) has my Snapchat, so has Brad (Hargreaves) we have each other on social media. I can chat to the mum, I don’t need any of this. I’ve got journalists turning up at my house,” he said.

“I genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, let a guy come to my house, because he said to me ‘mate they’ve all left’ and chatting to them, they said he wanted to carry on partying.

“I’m black, it’s an unfortunate situation. I’m being nice in letting someone stay at mine and now I’m public enemy number one.”

Ayub Qasim spoke to Mark Williams-Thomas (Image: YouTube)

Jay’s pal told how she tried to find the hotel where Jay had stayed

Jay Slater’s friend Lucy Law told how she went looking for the hotel in the north of Tenerife after receiving the call from him to say he was in trouble.

Williams-Thomas asked her: “How did you know to go to that location?”

And she replied: “Because he uploaded a video on his Snapchat story, there was a cigarette a white car (…) I had no idea where this house was, we were driving around looking for clues. I was doing this before the police, why was it not the police? I don’t understand.”

Lucy Law was on holiday with Jay in Tenerife (Image: Facebook)

Lucy Law claims Tenerife cops ‘didn’t take her seriously’ when she reported Jay missing

In a telephone conversation with Mark WIlliams-Thomas during the early stages of Jay’s disappearance, Jay’s friend Lucy Law claimed police did not take her reports of his disappearance seriously.

She told him: “Police kept ending the phone on me, they weren’t taking me seriously. I ran down to a taxi rank and went to the nearest police station.

“I went in and they gave me this piece of paper that said ‘go on this website’ but I can’t remember what else was on there.”

Jay Slater with Lucy Law

Lucy Law said that she didn’t know two men who left nightclub with Jay

Jay Slater’s friend Lucy Law told Williams-Thomas that she did not know who were the two men who the teen had gone off with after leaving the nightclub.

He had been to the NRG music festival with friends at the Papagayo nightclub in the resort of Playa de las Americas on June 16 last year and then strangely headed to the north of the island with a couple of men.

But Lucy said she didn’t have know who they were when asked by the former detective. “I have no idea,” she said. “I dont know who they are! How would I know who they are?”

Williams-Thomas persisted: “But you dont just pass people in a coffee shop and spend two nights with them and then Jay gets in a car with them. Why were they staying so far away?” But she said; “I dont know I had never met these people in my life.”

Williams-Thomas found a ‘sinister drug underworld’ in Tenerife party strip

The former detective told the podcast how he immediately became concerned about a drug culture on the party strip where Jay Slater had gone out before he went missing.

He goes through his investigation into the case from the start during the podcast where he said: “In the short space of time that I had been in Tenerife, I was not only aware that Jay and his friends had been taking drugs but also of a sinister drug underworld.”

And then speaking to reporters early on Williams-Thomas said: “here is certainly an aspect that concerns me with regards to drugs which is certainly a fraternity which exists here and in the last 24-48 hours there is certainly information which gives rise to concern around the drug aspect of it.

“Young people here, you only need to go down the strip and in a matter of 30 seconds of not being in a car you will be offered every single drug you want.”

Jay Slater’s pal tells Williams-Thomas what she did after he disappeared

Jay Slater’s friend Lucy spoke to Mark Williams-Thomas about what she did after the teen vanished with the pair on holiday in Tenerife.

Lucy Law told how she went to the police but claims they didn’t take her “seriously”.

She said: “Police kept ending the phone on, me, they weren’t taking me seriously. I ran down to taxi rank and went to nearest police station. I went in and they gave me this piece of paper that said ‘go on this website’ but I can’t remember what else was on there.”

Ex-detective Williams-Thomas gives fresh details on Jay Slater case in podcast

Mark Williams-Thomas has given fresh information on the Jay Slater investigation in a new podcast.

He covers key witness Ayub Qassim giving a first hand account of Jay’s disappearance, talks about the drug culture in the resort where the teenager was staying and reveals what was in first police report about Jay when he went missing.