FACEBOOK ‘MUST PAY POLICE BILL’

A HOUSE party posted on Facebook led to an attempted murder, a man falling into a bonfire and a schoolboy needing treatment for alcohol poisoning.

The ‘horror party’ in Germany has prompted lawmakers to step up their attempts to make Facebook pay for police and medical services in such incidents.

More than 200 people converged on the house, in Bavaria, after word spread on the social networking site. The host’s parents were away. After the party, at Jay’s death. He said Laura had been ‘anxious’ about ensuring the right guests turned up and it was a private party, with invitations sent through Facebook to only a select group of friends – but he added that ‘clearly there had been a few gatecrashers’.

Mr Gathercole, 54, said he a police spokesman said: ‘It looked like a First World War battlefield rather than a house.

‘The house was wrecked, just a giant mountain of rubbish.’

The incident has reinforced calls from politicians for Facebook to be accountable for the costs of such police and medical operations in the wake of postings on the site.

A German police union spokesman said: ‘The firm has made the platform available, and can’t pretend it has nothing to do with it.’ didn’t realise what had happened to Jay until the paramedics arrived.

‘I stopped the party immediately. It’s just such a dreadful thing to have happened. I feel so sorry for Jay’s parents.’

Two 18-year-old men and a 17year-old boy, all from Colchester, have been arrested.