Racist bullies who tormented a Sikh salesman so badly he is unlikely ever to work again kept their jobs - and one of them has even been promoted. John Cleary, 51, Stuart Smith, 45, and Glynn Smith, 41, were found by a tribunal to have subjected 36-year-old colleague Kieran Sidhu to a sustained campaign of vile racist abuse when they worked together at tech giant Exertis in Chineham. British-born Mr Sidhu endured being branded an “Arab shoe bomber”, the “only ethnic on the team” and a “temperamental Syrian immigrant” who was “f ing for ISIS”. The tribunal found that the sales team would sing to the tune of football chant Que Sera Sera: ‘Sidhu, Sidhu, he works at O2. Sidhu, Sidhu, he’s an Arab too and he’s got a bomb in his shoe.’
By Gazette Reporter & Tim Stewart
John Cleary, 51, Stuart Smith, 45, and Glynn Smith, 41, were found by a tribunal to have bullied 36-year-old colleague Kieran Sidhu when they worked together at tech giant Exertis in Chineham The Exertis employees who made a saleman s life a misery through a sustained campaign of racist abuse have now left the Basingstoke company. John Cleary, 51, Stuart Smith, 45, and Glynn Smith, 41, were found by a tribunal to have bullied 36-year-old colleague Kieran Sidhu when they worked together at tech giant Exertis in Chineham. British-born Mr Sidhu endured being branded an “Arab shoe bomber”, the “only ethnic on the team” and a “temperamental Syrian immigrant” who was “f ing for ISIS”.
Racist bullies who tormented a Sikh salesman so badly he is unlikely ever to work again kept their jobs - and one of them has even been promoted. John Cleary, 51, Stuart Smith, 45, and Glynn Smith, 41, were found by a tribunal to have subjected 36-year-old colleague Kieran Sidhu to a sustained campaign of vile racist abuse when they worked together at tech giant Exertis in Chineham. British-born Mr Sidhu endured being branded an “Arab shoe bomber”, the “only ethnic on the team” and a “temperamental Syrian immigrant” who was “f ing for ISIS”. The tribunal found that the sales team would sing to the tune of football chant Que Sera Sera: ‘Sidhu, Sidhu, he works at O2. Sidhu, Sidhu, he’s an Arab too and he’s got a bomb in his shoe.’
Racist bullies who called Scots Sikh salesman Arab shoe bomber kept jobs and one got promotion
Kieran Sidhu was forced to quit his job due to extreme depression and anxiety while one colleague behind the torment was promoted.
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Sikh salesman Kieran Sidhu was subject to vile racist abuse. (Image: Tim Stewart News Limited)
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