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Policeman who smashed pensioner’s car window awarded £440,000 payout
Tribunal found Mike Baillon left job after becaming laughing stock in Gwent police when 2009 video went viral
Link to video: Police smash window of pensioner’s car
A police officer who chased and then smashed a pensioner’s car window has won £440,000 after a tribunal found he left his job after becoming a “laughing stock” among his colleagues when a video of the incident appeared online.
Mike Baillon, who has now left the police, said he was ridiculed by fellow officers on a daily basis after video of him smashing the window of a car driven by 74-year-old disabled pensioner Robert Whatley went viral.
He took his former force, Gwent police, to a tribunal saying he had been constructively dismissed and had been removed from front line duties after the incident. The tribunal awarded him £430,000 for the loss of pension he would have got had he retired after 30 years service, plus £10,000 for the wages he lost since leaving the force.
Bill Bard says:
If that doesn’t encourage the Bastards, I don’t know what will.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/02/policeman-who-smashed-pensioners-car-window-awarded-440000-payout/
