Waitress: I was shocked when the call girls arrived

A WAITRESS who worked at the Presidents Club charity dinner has claimed prostitutes were among women employed at the scandal-hit event.

She gave lurid details about the evening, which included seeing men put their hands up the hostesses’ dresses and pouring drinks down their throats.

But she said things got even worse at the after party when a group of women wearing red dresses turned up and began acting ‘promiscuously’.

The waitress, who is in her 20s, said she was ‘100 per cent sure’ they were paid sex workers as they began kissing the guests ‘almost instantly’. Speaking anonymously to ITV News, she said: ‘Everyone got more and more drunk. There were a lot of girls who were really drunk. There were other girls who entered the room in the after party. They were wearing red dresses and they were acting very provocatively around the men. Kissing men almost instantly. It was shocking.

‘I was disgusted. The men were treating them like sex workers. They were putting hands up skirts.’

She added: ‘They were definitely more promiscuous. They came in and were immediately kissing people. I don’t know many hostess jobs that pay you to do that! They were quite happy to have... you know, I saw a few men with their hands up skirts.’

The woman said she felt uneasy about the job as soon as she was handed a revealing uniform which exposed part of her breasts and was made to hand in her mobile phone.

She said: ‘We were handed a short miniskirt dress which was very revealing on the side. So that’s when I started getting uneasy. I realised quite soon it was an odd job.’

But things took a more sinister turn as the night progressed, with agency workers refusing to let the women leave and forcing them to talk to guests. She said: ‘On my table the men weren’t too badly behaved, but on the table next to me, within five minutes a girl was sitting on a guy’s lap. Men were pouring drinks down girls’ throats. Yes there were some girls who didn’t mind that, but there were girls who hated it. We were playthings. We were objects for them to gawp at, touch. They were acting like we were objects and there for their entertainment.’

She said the hostesses were aged between 18 and 45 and that she felt very worried about the younger ones.

‘A lot of them hadn’t done it before,’ she said. ‘Some had and knew what it was about, and it was a fun time for them to get drunk.’

The woman also claimed that David Meller, a co- chairman of the Presidents Club Charitable Trust who yesterday stepped down from his role at the Department for Education, was aware of what was going on. She said: ‘He was there when we were getting ready. He was on the stage.’