Why Has the BBC Reporting about Jay Slater been so Inaccurate?
You Could Always Trust the BBC
It was on 17 June that a teenager from Lancashire disappeared while on holiday in Tenerife.
He was the apple of his Mother’s eye. It was his first holiday abroad. He was an apprentice bricklayer. The human interest was enormous, and it took the headlines on the BBC website for several days.
The search was on. His last known movements were analysed from every angle.
But then the disappearance began to take on a different perspective.
Indignant folk from Lancashire began to post on social media how Jay Slater was not exactly the innocent he was being described as.
The Jay Slater they knew was someone with a criminal record after being part of a gang that severely beat a teenage boy and put him in hospital with skull damage and other serious injuries.
Some were unhappy that the gang were given community service orders rather than jail, and were seen smirking and smiling as they left court.
Other rumours emerged suggesting that some of Jay Slater’s holiday friends, including his girlfriend, were connected with drugs, and that his disappearance was connected with drug deals that went wrong.
