One student was left in 'disbelief'
Organisers of a nightclub event have issued an apology after promoting a serial killer-themed Halloween party - featuring pictures of Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy on a poster. The event, which was due to be held at Rock City, was announced on the Crisis student night Instagram page.
It reads: "On Friday evening we released our Halloween event with a Serial Killers' theme. After consideration, we realise this was an upsetting and triggering concept."We would like to unreservedly apologise to anyone we have offended or caused distress to. In response to your feedback we changed the theme in less than 16 hours of its release. The event will proceed, but it is now simply a general Halloween theme.
In the statement from Crisis, the event organisers made clear neither Rock City nor the university's students' union were involved in choosing the theme. One Nottingham student, who said she worked for Crisis, wrote an open letter in which she said she was "in complete disbelief" an event "would encourage the behaviour to dress up as such controversial 'costumes'".
"The Jeffrey Dahmer series on Netflix was released very recently in September. With this being so close to Halloween, there has been an uproar on Twitter of people begging others NOT to dress up as him for Halloween, in an attempt to try and stop the glorification of Dahmer."
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