"Bar apologises for
Facebook post
mocking Jay Slater.
The owners of Bees Knees bar in Accrington, Lancashire,
said the image, making light of the search for the 19-year-old,
had been posted by Affordable Social.
They described the post as 'completely unacceptable'
and said the bar had donated £1,000 to a crowdfunding page supporting Mr Slater's family.
Affordable Social also apologised,
saying the employee responsible
'no longer works' for the company.
The bar is only a short distance from Mr Slater's home town of Oswaldtwistle and the teenager is believed to have been a customer on occasion.
In a statement, also posted on its Facebook page, Bees Knees said it had terminated its contract with Affordable Social after
'not receiving an adequate explanation'.
The company which runs the bar, headquartered in Blackburn, said it had contracted Affordable Social three months ago to improve its social media presence with light-hearted posts, including 'humour and sports talk'.
It said:
'The post that made it onto the page was neither one of the above and was highly insensitive and deeply offensive.
As a business we are utterly gobsmacked that this has happened and how somebody could find good humour in a missing boy'."
The bar, not far from Jay Slater's home town, said it was "gobsmacked" the image had been posted.
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