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The son of Yorkshire Ripper victim Richard McCann blasted The Otley Burger Company for the distasteful social media post which included photos of Peter Sutcliffe, Fred West, Josef Fritzl and Sir Jimmy Savile. He told the firm “Shame on you”. But the company’s owner Joe Scholey defended the Instagram post, incorrectly stating insisting: “They were all Dads”.

Neither Sutcliffe or Savile had any children.

Richard, whose mother Wilma was 28 when she was brutally murdered in 1975 on playing fields in Chapeltown, Leeds, just yards from her home.

Sutcliffe, who died in prison last year, went on to murder 12 more women during a five-year killing spree that terrorised the north of England.

Richard said: “Why on earth would anyone think it was appropriate to use images of Sutcliffe, Savile and West on a Father’s Day advert for his burger company is beyond me.”

Alongside Sutcliffe the post also featured Britain’s worst paedophile Sir Jimmy Savile, the BBC star who abused hundreds of victims, serial killer West, who murdered at least 12 victims, and monster Fritzl who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years in a cellar to rape and abused her.

The abuse resulted in the birth of seven children, three of whom remained in captivity with their mother, one who died just days after birth at the hands of Fritzl, and three others who were brought up by Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie.

Scholey is a former supermarket team manager who worked as a deputy manager for Subway for three months before launching his burger venture in June 2018.

He has a food truck parked up in the market square of the historic West Yorkshire town, which boasts as being the Gateway to the Dales.

Yesterday he refused to speak to the Daily Express.

A staff member who answered the company phone said he was “not interested in speaking to a newspaper”.

He added: “He knows what it’s about and he has nothing to say about it.”

Scholey previously attracted public anger by using a photograph of disgraced mum Karen Matthews to promote Mother’s Day earlier this year.

Matthews – who faked the abduction of her own daughter, Shannon, in 2008 – was uploaded to The Otley Burger Company’s Facebook and Instagram accounts with the caption: “Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there. Don’t forget to treat them to a burger tonight.”

Scholey, 28, said at the time that he subsequently deleted the post on Facebook because he “had a lot on” and did not want his phone “pinging all the time”.

Expressing his distaste of social media critics he added: “We are a burger company. We literally make money from the slaughter of animals. They found this offensive, yet we profit off slaughtering living creatures.

“They seem to be picking stupid fights.

“I don’t really understand what their issue is. They have seen what we post. If they don’t like it, don’t comment. It was just a bit of a joke.”

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