"I don't know if he had beef": Man 'who was with missing Jay Slater at Tenerife Airbnb' addresses 'problems' amid claims teen 'had taken £12,000 Rolex'

A British man who 'was at the Airbnb where Jay Slater visited' before he went missing has said there 'were no problems' before he left - amid claims the teenager 'had taken a £12,000 Rolex watch'.

Ayub Qassim has claimed he 'did Jay a favour' by letting him stay at the Airbnb property he had rented close to the village of Masca in Tenerife. The pair had travelled there with another friend in the early hours of the morning on June 17 after going to a rave on the south of the island.

Jay, from Lancashire, left the property later that morning and has been missing on the island ever since. Yesterday Mark Williams-Thomas, a former British police detective who is helping Jay's family in Tenerife, claimed that the teenager had told his pals he had 'taken a £12,000 Rolex' and had posted a Snapchat about the watch.

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"We've been unable to validate this in terms of a reported theft", he said in the video. "However, friends of Jay said he would not make this up and the watch was subject of later conversation between the friends."

The investigator also claimed the teenager was 'scared' when he left the Airbnb. But Qassim said that as far as he knew, 'there had been no problems'.

Speaking to the Mail Online, he said: "If I'd fallen out with him would he even come to mine? There were no problems.

"You've seen the last images of him with his red blanket around him. I don't know if he had beef elsewhere because I don't know him that well, I only know him through friends."

According to reports, Qassim was jailed nine years ago for being the mastermind behind a sophisticated operation to flood Wales with Class A drugs. Spanish Police have already spoken to him and