A bar in Accrington has come under fire after “disgusting” joke about missing teenager, Jay Slater, was posted to its Facebook page. Screenshots of the post, seen by the Lancashire Telegraph, showed a joke about the Oswaldtwistle teenager posted to The Bees Knees Accrington's Facebook page on Sunday. It was a repost of an image of Jay and a football with the caption ‘both not coming home’ - in reference to the search for the missing 19-year-old, and England's shaky Euro 2024 campaign.
The post has since been deleted. The Bees Knees claims it was not posted by a member of the bar staff but by a member of the media marketing company Affordable Social. The pub claimed the company posted “light-hearted humour, good content and sports talk” to its Facebook pages.
It is understood that the person who created the post is no longer working for Affordable Social. The Bees Knees no longer works with Affordable Social after the pub “did not receive an adequate explanation” as to why this happened. A representative for The Bees Knees Accrington has also donated £1,000 to the GoFundMe set up to help the search for Jay.
There has been outrage on social media since the joke was posted. One person described the post as "utterly disgusting". A spokesperson for AJP Pubs, which manages The Bees Knees Accrington, said: “A conversation between Bees Knees Directors and Affordable Social has taken place in which we have decided to terminate our contract with immediate effect, aft.
