Bisexual prison officer was made to carry a pink bag to work

A bisexual prison officer who was called a ‘poof’ by his colleagues and forced to carry a pink bag to work has won his unfair dismissal case. Ben Plaistow, 40, was hired as a prison officer at HMP Woodhill in 2014 and was fired two years later after he was accused of gross misconduct. Cambridge employment tribunal judge Michael Ord heard Mr Plaistow was subjected to months of abuse from other prison officers and senior staff at the jail in…

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