Year-old social media posts come back to haunt City solicitor
RPC has been forced to suspend one of its senior lawyers after reports claimed he had made a number of expletive-ridden comments on Twitter.
Nick Pester — an insurance specialist at RPC — is alleged to have sent several abusive tweets between September and November 2015 from a Twitter account called @NickoAIM. The account in question has since disappeared.
One tweet is directed at an account — which has also disappeared — called @Bucklitsch, which Legal Cheek understands used to belong to controversial ex-UKIP candidate Peter Bucklitsch. The post (screenshot below) appears to reference the Syrian refugee crisis in Turkey, and brands Bucklitsch a “C*NT”.
In another tweet which has been deleted, Pester — whose profile has since been pulled from RPC’s website — embarked on a rant, branding the Daily Mail newspaper, among other things, a “ball of w*nk”.
Despite being over a year old, it appears that the social media posts were only brought to the attention of Pester’s employers after a Twitter user began tweeting RPC’s official account directly.
Taking swift action, a spokesperson for RPC confirmed to Legal Cheek this morning that an internal investigation was underway and that “the employee in question” had been “suspended on full pay pending an expedited disciplinary hearing”. Continuing, the spokesperson said:
Although these comments were made in a personal capacity, the tone, content and language used run completely counter to the culture and values that we espouse here at RPC — there is no excuse for them and we distance ourselves from them unreservedly.
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