The post was blasted as 'disgusting', with bar managers since deleting it and describing it as 'highly sensitive' and 'deeply offensive'
The Bees Knees bar in Accrington has since apologised and made a donation to the search appeal for the lost apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle . The boozer caused an uproar when it posted a picture on its Facebook page referring to the 19-year-old's disappearance in Tenerife last month.
"Jay's hometown he is a customer in the bar too and they posted in error apparently," Rachel wrote. She said the joke was "sickening" and wrote in response: "How can anyway even share stuff like that, very disgusting and very disrespectful." Issuing a grovelling apology yesterday, Bees Knees said: "This morning a conversation between Bees Knees Directors and Affordable Social has taken place in which we have decided to terminate our contract with immediate effect, after not receiving an adequate explanation into how this happened. Affordable Social were challenged three months ago to improve our social media pages via light-hearted humour, good content and sports talk.
"As a company, we are East Lancashire based with our head office in Blackburn, we fully understand the impact this news about Jay has had on the area. We all have our fingers crossed for his safe return to the UK. We however fully appreciate the damage that has been done and nothing can change this however we will make a donation to the family fund of £1000 to assist the search for Jay.
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