Man who took Jay Slater back to Airbnb is 'in drill rapper's crew'

The man who took Jay Slater back to his Airbnb is a convicted drug dealer who is in a drill rapper's crew. Ayub Qassim, 31, was jailed for nine years in 2015 as the ringleader of a London-based gang dealing heroin and crack cocaine in Cardiff.

Ayub is close pals with Potter Payper and even appeared on stage with the acclaimed drill rapper. Ayub appeared in Potter Payper's video for Love Me How and he grinned as he appeared on stage at a awards ceremony.

He rented the Airbnb Jay went to using a different surname. A source told The Sun: “Ayub is one of Potter’s main guys. They go way back and were friends back in London. They both grew up in Barking and mixed in the same circles.

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“Once Potter opened up the cannabis cafe in Tenerife he decided that Ayub was the guy to run it.” Speaking out to the Mail Online after being approached this week, Qassim told reporters that Jay was a “cool guy” who he knew through friends.

He said: "I let the geezer stay at mine because he had nowhere else to go. His friends had all left him. I know Jay, through friends, I'm not going to bring someone back to mine if I don't know them. I'm doing the geezer a favour and now my face is all over the news. It's a bit mental. I haven't even done anything."

Qassim added: "The only comment I have to make is that Jay came to the house alive, and he left the house alive. "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."