£7k for porn-hit lesbian
A LESBIAN forklift truck driver has been awarded £7,500 in damages after her boss bombarded her with pornography.
Coleen Rowntree won a discrimination claim after relief chargehand Steven Evans repeatedly switched on the Babe Channel at work.
She told an employment tribunal that Mr Evans continually made remarks about her sexuality when she was the only woman working on the shopfloor at night.
Ms Rowntree, 47, from Grimsby, Lincs, told the hearing he made rude comments relating to her sexual activity with her female partner while watching the TV show.
The Leeds tribunal partly upheld her complaint of discrimination against building materials supplier Knauf UK on the grounds of her sexual orientation and awarded damages for injury to feelings.
They said having to watch the Babe show and suffer comments from Mr Evans was “unwanted” conduct.
The comic, one half of Britain’s best-loved female double act French and Saunders, told how splashing the cash at the Beeb drove her mad.
Jennifer, 55, who has just released tell-all autobiography Bonkers and starred in the hit sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, described