Speaking exclusively to MailOnline today Qassim said: 'The only comment I have to make is that Jay came to the house alive, and he left the house alive.
'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.'
Now Qassim is back at his family's flat in Barking, east London.
In 2015 Qassim was the ringleader of a London-based crime gang who imported heroin and crack cocaine to Cardiff. When police raided a property there, they found drugs, cash, mobile phones and digital scales. Qassim was sentenced to nine years and nine months.
Qassim insisted he had had no argument with Jay and he had even given him a blanket to sleep in.
He added: '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.'
Ayub Qassim invited Jay, 19, back to his rented holiday cottage after a rave in Tenerife hours before he vanished on June 17.
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