EXCLUSIVERevealed: Reason why missing raver Jay Slater refused lift from ‘new pal’ as he tried to walk home from remote £40-a-night Airbnb on foot

Missing Jay Slater refused a lift back to his hotel from a remote Airbnb where he had travelled with two older British men because he was hungry, it has been claimed.

The apprentice bricklayer, 19, had gone back to the £40-a-night holiday rental with convicted drug dealer Ayub Qassim and another mystery man in the early hours of June 17.

Qassim, 31, was one of the last people to see Jay before he called a friend to say he was walking home and vanished without a trace. He has not been seen or heard from in 21 days after last being seen on Monday, June 17.

He was last seen just after 8am by a witness who said he was walking back to his hotel in the party resort of Playa de las Americas after missing a bus. Spanish police have described the two men as ‘irrelevant’ to the investigation.

Earlier this week, Qassim told MailOnline he had invited the teenager back to the cottage in the village of Masca because his friends had left him at an end-of-festival after party.

TV sleuth Mark Williams-Thomas has since interviewed Qassim, who posted an Instagram video of himself sitting on the same mosaic style doorstep where Jay sent his final Snapchat image, and gathered new information.

The investigator said that Qassim claimed to have offered Jay a lift back to his hotel after he slept, but was turned down as he was hungry and ‘wanted some scran: