Bees Knees in Accrington has been criticised over the post on its Facebook page
Bees Knees bar in Accrington, Lancashire , has since issued an apology and donated to the search appeal for the missing teenager. The establishment, near Jay's hometown of Oswaldtwistle, sparked outrage when it shared an image on its Facebook page referring to the 19-year-old's disappearance in Tenerife last month.
Rachel Hargreaves, mother of Jay's best friend Brad, was among those to slam the bar over the post, saying she couldn't understand "how cruel some people really are". "Jay's hometown he is a customer in the bar too and they posted in error apparently," Rachel wrote. The Bees Knees issued an apology to its customers on Monday, saying an outsourced social media company had made the post after contracting them to improve their online presence. The bar has since donated £1,000 to the GoFundMe page set up for helping the search for Jay - which appears to be the biggest donation yet.
"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. I can’t stress enough nobody within the pub company has posted this status, some of which are receiving threatening messages which is completely unacceptable.
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