As night falls, the Papagayo Beach Club descends into noise and narcotics. This is the jewel in the Veronicas Strip, neon-lit bars adjacent to the resort of Playa de las Americas in Tenerife.
As night falls, the Papagayo Beach Club descends into a cauldron of noise and narcotics. This is the jewel in the somewhat sordid crown of Veronicas Strip, a collection of neon-lit bars adjacent to the resort of Playa de las Americas in Tenerife.
Like many revellers, his mouth was open and jaw locked to one side, an expression consistent with ecstasy or ketamine abuse. It was the final hours of the three-day New Rave Generation music festival which he and three friends had flown out to attend. When approached by the Mail, Qassim, 31, — who booked the Airbnb under another name — simply said: 'The only comment I have to make is that Jay came to the house alive and he left the house alive.'
And it turns out that Bousbaa also has form when it comes to drugs. He was sentenced to more than five years in prison for running his own Class A narcotics operation in Barking, East London, which used a 'county lines' network of young people to deal drugs in provincial towns. Qassim was jailed over nine years ago for being the architect of a sophisticated and extensive Class A drug dealing operation across Wales
The duo were questioned but almost immediately released by Spanish detectives investigating Jay's disappearance, with the police chief in charge of the operation claiming at the weekend that the pair were 'not in any way relevant to the case'. Whatever the answer, Jay took the road north in the opposite direction to where his holiday apartment was situated, apparently on the basis that it was the route recommended by the Apple Maps app on his phone, according to Mark Williams- Thomas, the former police officer who is unofficially investigating Jay's disappearance.
On Thursday morning, the Mail visited the deep and treacherous ravine, where rescuers had conducted an ultimately fruitless 12-day search before calling off their efforts last Sunday. 'We are a very close family and are absolutely devastated about his disappearance,' Debbie said in a statement on Tuesday. 'Words cannot describe the pain and agony we are experiencing.Yet the Jay Slater case has certainly done little to dampen the enthusiasm of revellers on this party island.
But others are taking Jay's disappearance more seriously. Two 20-year-old holidaymakers called Harry and Ed are enjoying a week away. 'We're certainly more wary now,' says Harry. 'Our families warned us to be careful and we won't be going to Veronicas.'
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