£125k payout over "Black Jelly Babies"

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The Mail said:
A Tube worker who accused two colleagues of racism - alleging they taunted him by biting the heads off black jelly babies - has received a reported £125,000 pay-out.

Daniel Jean-Marie received the out-of-court settlement from London Underground at Watford employment tribunal.

Last year his two colleagues at Caledonian Road station, Victor Cooney and Carlo Rozza, were cleared of racial harassment at Middlesex Guildhall crown court.

Lawyers for Mr Jean-Marie, who no longer works for the company, and London Underground reached a settlement before the case was due to start.

Mr Jean-Marie's barrister Nicholas Toms said: "The claim has been resolved on terms going to be kept confidential."

In a statement at last year's trial Mr Cooney said: "One time I gave Daniel a bag of jelly babies and he called me a racist because there were too many black jelly babies in the bag."

When asked by police: "Did you say anything about cutting their heads off? Anything about black jelly babies that could have been misconstrued?" Mr Cooney replied: "No".

He added: "I made no reference to cutting jelly babies' heads off. It's nonsense". After yesterday's agreement a joint statement said: "Mr Jean-Marie and LU have successfully resolved their dispute".
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I mean, really. Why are people so sensitive.....
 
everyone knows people eat the ******* heads off first :rolleyes:
it's almost like the law :o

for ***** sake, when will this end, jesus, i've made jokes about my gay supervisor and had no comeback, even when i did it while he was standing behind me, i guess he just wasn't a little black pussy though :o
 
We must act now to remove ALL black jelly babies from our streets. Think of the children.

An on-line petition is clearly in order.
 
Clinkz said:
We must act now to remove ALL black jelly babies from our streets. Think of the children.

An on-line petition is clearly in order.
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Forget that, I need to call my black friend and trying something similar, then we can go halves :D
 
can i complain that they have white boards in the school i work at and have stoped using black boards, i see it as a deliberate attack on myself.


"One time I gave Daniel a bag of jelly babies and he called me a racist because there were too many black jelly babies in the bag."

that is actually ridiculous.

wont be suprised if they stop making black jelly babies now.
 
No doubt the pathetic excuse for a paper 'Daily Mail' have just picked up on just this one point of the case to bolster their racist anti-immigration views.
The victim probably endured weeks/months of systematic racial abuse, otherwise I find it very hard to believe that they would settle out of court for such a large amount of money.
 
utajoker said:
can i complain that they have white boards in the school i work at and have stoped using black boards, i see it as a deliberate attack on myself.


"One time I gave Daniel a bag of jelly babies and he called me a racist because there were too many black jelly babies in the bag."

that is actually ridiculous.

wont be suprised if they stop making black jelly babies now.
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afaik i thought they had already removed black jelly babies... how old is this case? how long till they got the settlement?
 
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