SACKED CATERING MANAGERESS VERONICA SNOWBALL BECAM
SACKED CATERING MANAGERESS VERONICA SNOWBALL BECAME THE
VICTIM OF A SMEAR CAMPAIGN AT WORK AFTER SHE IGNORED ADVANCES FROM
HER RANDY BOSS, SHE CLAIMED ON TUESDAY.
THE 46-YEAR-OLD DIVORCEE SAID THAT HER BOSS BRUCE KNIGHT
ASKED HER TO MAKE LOVE ON THE OFFICE TABLE AND SENT HER SEXY
UNDERWEAR AND PORNOGRAPHIC BOOKS IN A BID TO GET HER INTO BED.
BUT AFTER IGNORING THE PESTERING BOSS, SHE WAS ACCUSED OF
DISHONESTY AND SACKED, SHE TOLD THE CHELSEA INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL.
A COMPANY AUDITOR PAID A SURPRISE VISIT AND WENT THROUGH HER
BOOKS THE DAY BEFORE SHE WENT ON HOLIDAY.
IT TURNED OUT TO BE HER LAST DAY BECAUSE SHE WAS ‘MOVED
SIDEWAYS’ AND LATER SACKED WHEN SHE RETURNED.
THE AUDITOR REPORTED THAT SHE HAD OVERSPENT HER BUDGET.
SHE
WAS ACCUSED OF NOT KEEPING PROPER RECORDS, AND TAKINGS IN THE CANTEEN
AT BRISTOWS HELICOPTERS IN REDHILL, SURREY, WHERE SHE WAS MANAGERESS,
WENT UP BY #50 A DAY AFTER SHE LEFT, IT WAS ALLEGED.
MR ANDREW POPPLEWELL REPRESENTING CONTRACT CATERERS GARDNER
MERCHANT, A TRUST HOUSE FORTE SUBSIDIARY, WHO HELD THE BRISTOWS
CATERING CONTRACT, SAID SHE HAD OVERSPENT BY #11,000 LAST YEAR.
BUT MRS SNOWBALL DENIED IT SAYING:’I WAS SUMMONED TO A
MEETING, BUT THAT WAS NOT DISCUSSED.
I CANNOT RECALL THE EXACT
AMOUNT THAT I WAS OVERSPENT, BUT IT WAS NOT #11,000.
‘A MANAGER MR BYLETT ACCUSED ME OF BEING OVERSPENT IN THIS
YEAR’S BUDGET, BUT A CHECK SHOWED THAT I WAS #500 UNDERSPENT.
‘
ASKED BY MR POPPLEWELL WHETHER SHE THOUGHT MR BYLETT WAS AN
HONEST MAN, SHE SAID:’I’D RATHER PASS ON THAT QUESTION.
‘
THE COURT WAS TOLD MR BYLETT WAS SUPERIOR TO MR KNIGHT IN
THE COMPANY HIERARCHY.
MRS SNOWBALL, A DIVORCED MOTHER OF THREE TEENAGE SONS, OF
HARMONS MEAD, EAST GRINSTEAD, SUSSEX, WAS SACKED IN JUNE THIS YEAR.
SHE IS CLAIMING COMPENSATION FOR UNFAIR DISMISSAL AND SEXUAL
DISCRIMINATION.
THE HEARING CONTINUES.
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CENTRAL NEWS SERVICE,
ADD RANDY .
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TALES OF A RANDY BOSS’ NAUGHTY SEX DEMANDS WERE AN ATTEMPT
TO BLACKMAIL HER FORMER EMPLOYERS, IT WAS ALLEGED.
A CANTEEN MANAGERESS HAS ACCUSED BOSS BRUCE KNIGHT OF BEING
A SEX PEST – SAYING HE ASKED TO MAKE LOVE ON AN OFFICE DESK,
CONSTANLTY PHONED HER ASKING TO GO TO BED WITH HER AND SENT HER PORN
MAGAZINES AND SEXY UNDERWEAR IN HIS ATTEMPT AT SEDUCTION.
BUT IT WAS CLAIMED AT A CHELSEA TRIBUNAL, DIVORCEE VERONICA
SNOWBALL, 46, INVENTED THE SEX ALLEGATIONS TO HIT BACK AT HER EX-BOSS
AFTER SHE WAS FIRED FOR DISHONESTY.
MR ANDREW POPPLEWELL, COUNSEL FOR CATERERS GARDNER MERCHANT,
ACCUSED MRS SNOWBALL OF INVENTING A STORY ABOUT BOSS BRUCE KNIGHT
BOMBARDING HER HOME WITH SEXY PHONE CALLS AND A BAG OF NAUGHTY
KNICKERS.
‘IT IS ALL A FABRICATION FROM BEGINNING TO END, ISN’T IT?’,
SAID MR POPPLEWELL.
‘NO’ REPLIED MRS SNOWBALL.
MR POPPLEWELL THEN DISMISSED HER ALLEGATIONS THAT KNIGHT
SENT EXPLICIT SEX MAGAZINES AND SAUCY UNDERWEAR TO HER HOME SAYING:
‘THESE ARE WHOLLY UNCONNECTED WITH MR KNIGHT, AND YOU THOUGHT IT
WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO BRING THEM ALONG TO USE IN THE ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST HIM’.
MRS SNOWBALL REPLIED: ‘NO – HE WOULD RING UP AND ASK ME WHAT
I WAS DOING.
IF I WANTED A DRINK, AND IF I WANTED TO GO TO BED
WITH HIM.
‘I TELEPHONED A FRIEND AND TOLD HER ABOUT THE CALL.
‘, SHE
SAID.
MR POPPLEWELL PRESSED: ‘IT IS ALL A COMPLETE FABRICATION,
ISN’T IT? THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN WICKED LIES WHICH
YOU HAVE INVENTED TO BLACKMAIL THE COMPANY INTO PAYING COMPENSATION
MONEY.
‘
MRS SNOWBALL RETORTED: ‘IF THEY WERE WICKED LIES I WOULD
HAVE SAID THAT HE TRIED TO RAPE ME OR ABUSE ME.
‘I HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING LIKE THAT – I HAVE TOLD YOU THE
TRUTH’.
BUT MR POPPLEWELL SAID IT WAS ‘PURE SPECULATION’ THAT THE
SEX ALLEGATIONS HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER SACKING.
AND ASKED WHY SHE KEPT THE SAUCY UNDERWEAR, MRS SNOWBALL
REPLIED:’I WAS AMAZED TO FIND IT IN MY GARAGE.
AS MY SON WAS DUE
HOME, I HID IT.
THEN I LEFT IT WHERE IT WAS.
‘I COULDN’T JUST PUT IT IN THE DUSTBIN, BECAUSE THE BAG
MIGHT SPLIT AND IT MIGHT FALL OUT.
‘
THE HEARING WAS ADJOURNED UNTIL DECEMBER 5.
ENDS
