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MAN ORDERED TO CLEAN MEMORIALS AFTER URINATING ON MANCHESTER
CENOTAPH A man has been ordered to spend 200 hours cleaning war memorials across Manchester as part of his punishment, after being caught urinating on the Manchester Cenotaph.
Caedmon Kerr, 24, was spotted on CCTV footage walking unsteadily up to the remembrance site in St. Peter’s Square, before relieving himself on the monument.
He later apologised and told a court hearing that he was so drunk that he could not remember defiling the memorial.
Kerr, a hotel receptionist from Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester,
IRISH CLEANER AWARDED €25,000 AFTER UNFAIR
DISMISSAL A cleaner in Ireland has been awarded €25,000 for unfair dismissal, after losing her longstanding job over a piece of burnt toast.
Jane Callaghan, in her early 60s, was unfairly dismissed by OCS One Complete Solutions Ltd for ‘gross misconduct’, after a piece of bread she was toasting got jammed in a toaster, setting off a fire alarm at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.
At an Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT), which took place over two days in Dublin, Ms Callaghan revealed that she was working at a function at the storehouse on April 2nd, 2014, where 360 guests were in attendance, with 170 meals about to be served.
Ms Callaghan admitted to accessing the executive Bailey Suite of the storehouse to take a break, where she
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Caedmon was seen unzipping as he walked towards the memorial (Picture: Cavendish)
was given 200 hours of unpaid work by a judge who branded his behaviour as ‘disrespectful and disgusting’.
CCTV operators from the Council caught Kerr wandering around the Cenotaph in the early hours of the morning on 7th February, before seeing him approach one of the obelisks at the side of the main structure, unzip his fly and urinate on it.
He was then seen ‘skipping and dancing’ from the scene and shouting
placed a piece of bread in a toaster, which then jammed.
A facilities cleaning manager with the firm then told the EAT hearing that Ms Callaghan panicked and ran from the suite, therefore allowing the alarm system to become fully activated. However, it was stopped before any evacuation of the building took place.
During the investigation, Ms Callaghan admitted that she didn’t have permission to use the executive suite, and admitted to using the toaster. In doing so, the firm found that her actions had constituted gross misconduct, and she was sacked on April 23rd, 2014, despite having had no previous disciplinary issues at the firm during her 13 years of employment.
A witness for the firm added at the hearing that the incident resulted in another employee being dismissed, a third receiving a written warning, and a fourth failing a probationary period.
The firm’s Head of Operations added that he did not consider a lesser sanction than dismissal in
at passersby. He was later arrested in the city centre.
After the order was handed down to him, Kerr apologised for his actions, saying: “I’m just completely ashamed. It was not something I ever expected to find myself accused of. Especially considering I have had a morally straight upbringing, a good education and lots of opportunities.
“I can fully understand the significance of the war memorial.”
Ms Callaghan’s case, as he was concerned about what could have potentially happened had there been a full evacuation of the building.
However, Ms Callaghan said that two named supervisors and one manager were aware that she took breaks in the Bailey Suite, and that because of her service record, she felt that if she owned up to her actions, then she would just get a ‘slap on the hand’.
In its determination, the EAT found that while the regulations may have prohibited staff from using the Suite, practice and procedure condoned by the supervisors had allowed them to do so.
The EAT stated: “If the toast had not burned, there would have been no incident, and consequently no dismissal.
“It was reasonably foreseeable that by permitting the staff to use the facility that toast could burn, therefore to chastise the claimant for this was unfair.”
Following the tribunal, Ms Callaghan was awarded €25,000.
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