Police officers pepper-sprayed a Kwik Fit technician to stop him grabbing a pint of milk while responding to a domestic incident. Paul Whitehead was h [See the full post at: Police pepper spray Kwik Fit technician]
question, if you were a garage owner or proprietor would you want somebody working for you who has no respect for the law and authority, who cannot control their temper in difficult situations and reverts to violence, verbal or physical, I wouldn’t !!! He’s just a fool and deserves all he gets.
Hi Nigel, thanks for your comment. This story was ran as an ‘off-beat’ piece on GW in today’s news bulletin as the incident involved a fast-fit technician who escaped a prison sentence, in part because he would have lost his job. I appreciate your comment though as we’re always keen to get the news balance right for our readers. Thanks again, Mike.
Um, isn’t obvious that if he had gone to prison he would lose his job? Unless the rules have got so lax that he would be allowed out to go to work every day, as long as he came back afterwards!
Other than that though if I was unfortunate enough to be employing him I would sack him anyway. You can’t really have someone like this working on cars and dealing with customers.
Jim, I am a garage owner and MOT testing authorised examiner/tester, my point was that this was a domestic incident & not connected to the motor trade at all. If one of my employees was sent to prison, then yes I could not continue his/her employment. But without knowing the full circumstances I felt that this should not have been reported in the Motor trade press. Thank you to the editor for his comments.
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