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Two Halfords staff axed in racism scandal as they announce ‘Africans are the worst with money’

BY ALAN SELBY

Halfords staff member said: “My boyfriend, he hates them African people. They are the worst when it comes to money”

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Two Halfords staff have lost their jobs after leaving racist abuse on a customer’s voicemail.

They blasted the man, who had an African surname, for accepting the store’s free car check and said he was “the sort of person who would drive to Aldi for a f***ing bog roll”.

One of them added: “Something for nothing is all they want, those people.’

The pair, a man and woman, were caught out after they left a message for the customer to confirm his booking – but forgot to hang up.

The victim listened in disbelief as he heard them discuss how “Africans are the worst when it comes to money”.

The customer, a 20-year-old economics student, said: “I had to listen to the voicemail message a few times to make sure they were definitely saying what I thought they were. I’d already been to the store and it seemed they didn’t want to deal with me. When I heard the voicemail, I realised why.”

After mispronouncing his name the female staff member says she has a problem with “Africans”.

Her male colleague responds: “Most of the people who book this stuff in are those sorts of people.” The woman says: “My boyfriend, he hates them African people. They are the worst when it comes to money.”

The customer, who has asked to remain anonymous, went to the Halfords Autocentre in Grays, Essex, to confront the pair. He said: “The woman ran to the back of the store. I told the man I’d heard his conversation about Africans. He said it was normally people with funny names that book the free health check. It was like he didn’t understand what he was saying was wrong.”

The pair owned up to a regional manager after the customer threatened to take it further. Halfords offered the customer a free service and a set of tyres.

He said: “It’s like they just tried to buy me off.”

A spokesman for Halfords Autocentres later said: “We have a zero-tolerance policy towards racist behaviour. Following a hearing one colleague was dismissed and the other resigned prior to being dismissed.”

Source: Mirror

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