Jay Slater Airbnb listed for rent again despite teen still being missing…and is mysteriously ALREADY booked up for weeks
THE Airbnb Jay Slater went to before he vanished has been relisted for tourists to book.
Jay, 19, travelled to the remote holiday let in Masca, Tenerife, with two British men hours before he disappeared almost one month ago.
Apprentice bricklayer Jay, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancs, left the cottage – Casa Abuela Tina – early on June 17.
The let is set in the desolate Rural de Teno National Park – surrounded by vast, rocky terrain.
Jay was last seen walking uphill and made a final call to friend Lucy Law to say he was lost.
In the weeks since Jay’s disappearance, the two-bed Airbnb has been taken off booking sites.
But it has now been readded to booking.com, with one review describing it as “exceptional”.
Yet when The Sun tried to book, all dates came up as “unavailable”.
It is feared the cottage may have been rented out by ghouls fascinated by Jay’s disappearance.
The Masca ravine has been flooded by amateur sleuths attempting to crack the case since Spanish cops axed the search after less than two weeks.
Shameless tourists have been taking jeeps to the Airbnb and treating the site as a warped tourist attraction.
The let was booked for £40 a night by convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim.
He and another Brit took Jay there in a hire after a night of partying in Playa de las Americas.
Jay is said to have left the cottage “feeling scared” and refused to return there despite his phone having little battery.
Former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who is unofficially probing the case, said Jay told pals on the phone he couldn’t go back.
He spoke to a handful of friends on the phone after leaving the let after 7.30am on June 17.
Panicked Jay told his friend Lucy he had only had one per cent phone battery at around 8.50am.
He has not been heard from or seen since, and an extensive search by cops failed to find any trace of him.
The Sun has contacted booking.com for comment.
Meanwhile, Mark claims he has uncovered a bombshell new clue in Jay’s case.
The ex-cop, who worked on the Madeleine McCann case – and is on the ground in Tenerife – said he has passed on a “significant new piece of information” to Spanish police.
He has been in close contact with a number of witnesses including Jay’s family and friends, and has been updating cops on his findings.
Mark was the first to share an initial description of the two men Jay left a rave within the hours before he vanished.
Yesterday Jay’s desperate dad Warren Slater, 58, spoke to The Sun about the search for his son.
He vowed to not stop looking for the 19-year-old after the official search effort drew to a halt.
Warren and Jay’s brother Zak, have been hiking through the mountains in Tenerife every day trying to find any sign of Jay – who disappeared on June 17.
He was last seen walking uphill in the remote village on the northwest of the island.
After weeks of endless searching from Spanish cops, Jay’s family and volunteers, no trace of the teen has been found with many feeling the hunt was nearing an end.
But cops are said to be remaining hopeful that many of the questions and puzzles surrounding Jay will be cleared up soon.
Spanish cops are starting to probe three new bombshell leads with one theory saying the missing 19-year-old could still be alive in another part of Tenerife.
A source close to the Spanish Guardia Civil told The Sun the case is still “very much open” with “all scenarios being kept in mind”.
Investigators say they haven’t deemed the teen as “missing feared dead” yet as they continue to mule over the mystery case.
A police source told The Sun: “The case is very much open because there are still a number of unanswered questions which officers must find answers to.
“They are convinced someone, somewhere knows what happened to Jay or knows where is now is, and that’s what they are working towards trying to establish as quickly as they can.”
“Even though the ground search for Jay is over, the investigation into where he might be still remains very much open.
“One line of inquiry is a theory that Jay might even be in a different part of Tenerife and still alive. All scenarios are being kept in mind.”
It comes as Jay Slater‘s desperate family face having to pay to scour the ravine where the teen vanished in Tenerife.
Authorities in Masca are expected to slap visitors to the area with a £24 fee due to “overcrowding”.
Jay’s family and friends, plus some volunteers, have taken the upon themselves since Spanish cops called off the official search almost two weeks ago.
Among them are amateur TikTok sleuths who have jetted to Tenerife to film themselves hunting for the teen.
But it is understood from Friday tourists will have to pay to walk the ravine’s trails.
It is expected to be open to hikers only, who will have to prebook and pay £23 each.
Only 275 people will be allowed a day – and no more than 100,000 a year, according to plans by Tenerife Island Council.
Officials have blamed “overcrowding” for the move – but it is unclear what this will mean for volunteers still looking for Jay.
Residents will not have to pay and will not be counted in the daily limit.
THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF JAY SLATER
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
MONDAY July 8 marked three weeks since Jay Slater, a 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, vanished in Tenerife.
The apprentice bricklayer, who flew out to the popular holiday island for a rave festival with friends Lucy Law and Brad Page, has made headlines around the country.
On Sunday, June 16 the three of them headed off to one of the events at Papagayo nightclub.
In the early hours of Monday 17 – Lucy and Brad were ready to head back to their hotel, but Jay wanted to keep partying.
It was then that he left the south of the island and headed to an Airbnb in the northwest with two British men.
The Sun revealed the identity of one of them – convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim, who spent nine years behind bars in the UK.
For days it was thought that the second mystery man went by the name ‘Johnny Vegas’.
On Sunday former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, who is out in Tenerife investigating, said Qassim told him he is in fact the man behind the nickname ‘Johnny Vegas’.
We don’t yet know the identity of the second man – who remains a key part of the puzzle in Jay’s mysterious disappearance.
Qassim claims he drove Jay and the friend back to their accommodation and said they all went to sleep.
In the morning he offered to drive the teen back to the Los Cristianos resort after a nap, but Jay, hungry and tired, said he wanted to leave immediately.
Lucy, the last person to speak to Jay, claims she had a panicked call from him soon after he left the holiday let, telling her he was lost and thirsty, his phone was about to die and that he’d been cut by a cactus.
Jay had been seen by the owner of the Airbnb that morning wandering around near the Rural de Teno park – a mountainous region close by.
He is believed to have been attempting the 11-hour trek back to his hotel, despite the alleged offer of a lift and more buses scheduled for the day.
It was there that his phone last pinged – and he hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
Mark Williams-Thomas has claimed he left the Airbnb quickly, and was “scared”.
Bizarrely, Qassim says he was woken up that morning by a phone call from an unnamed friend of Jay, saying he was “in a ditch” somewhere and had been “cut by a cactus”.
Jay’s friend Lucy claimed to have “tracked down” the two men in the Airbnb after he vanished – quizzing them on the morning of Jay’s disappearance.
Some reports have suggested Lucy knew the two men, although it is not clear how.
She has dubbed his disappearance “weird and suspicious”.
Both men were questioned by Spanish cops on June 17 but quickly deemed “irrelevant” to the investigation and cleared to fly back to the UK.
Police spent almost two weeks searching for Jay in the Tenerife mountains, scouring a 2,000ft ravine, before calling it off on Sunday, June 30.
Jay’s family have repeatedly slammed the Spanish investigation into his bizarre disappearance.
His uncle, Glen Duncan, is convinced of “third-party involvement”.
And the teen’s devastated dad, Warren Slater, says “Everything stinks”
He told The Sun: “My starting position, I’ve said this from day one, ask the two men who’ve taken him – and then start from there.”
A number of unanswered questions remain, over why Jay would have travelled so far with two older men he didn’t know, why said men would have taken him in, and why he braved the Tenerife mountains with no phone battery, water or heat protection for a day-long walk.
