(JollofNews) – A Gambian security guard wo was arrested on Friday for staging a 20-hour protest on the rafters of a Tesco store in Reading, United Kingdom, has been ordered to pay £20 administration fine by a local magistrate.
Adama Jammeh, 45, appeared at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, charged with aggravated trespassing, after his protest at Tesco Extra on Portman Road, forced the busy supermarket to shutdown for over 21 hours.
He was also ordered to behave himself for the next 12 months.
Mr Jammeh has been holding regular protest outside the Tesco Extra store in Portman Road since he was fired six months ago for allegedly stealing £20,000’s worth of electrical goods.
According to the Reading Chronicle, he was the subject of a year-long investigation by Thames Valley Police after he was accused of stealing electronics by Tesco and contractor Total Security Services. Although he was cleared by police, Mr Jammeh said Tesco refused to apologise and reinstate him in his old role.
Speaking to Reading Live over the phone about the protest shortly before his arrest, Mr Jammeh said: “I’ve been here 14 hours now. I’ve spent six months protesting outside, apart from the last two weeks because I’ve had a cold.
“Yesterday I felt my cold had gone so I could go back to my protest. For those three weeks I was really angry. Before I came up here I thought to myself if I’m going out there again to protest outside of Tesco and they ignore me that’s not what I want, people aren’t taking me seriously.”
PapaK
One was a security at the Argos and was victimised for manhandling a thief during his duty and now this one, a security worker also but suspected of robbery that he was cleared of but still victimised. Victimised because, rights to compensation paid a blind eye, are justice paid a blind eye. Isn’t it the police’s duty to tell Mr. Jammeh his rights once been cleared of the suspicion? Or things in the great U.K work a different way?
Glad for Tesco and TSS Mr. anyway, Jammeh, is not a Caucasian because, he wouldn’t have suffered the trouble of finding a legal advice before Tesco and TSS or their inurances know they will have to incur indemnities due to Mr. Jammeh.
May, would still consider such views as short sighted attacks as in claims by her that inequity is not black or white in the U.K.
However, sadly to say, the U.K has lost a lot of its values during a very short period of time perhaps due to Trump’s errand being ran for him in Europe too, to bring records for them from bad to worst.
Get hold of Mike, Bourne; there can’t be such injustices in though holier-Britain (West) not to talk about US; especially in this 21st century…?
But the shortsighted eagle-eyed hypocrite Michael Scales can only see Gambia emerging democracy at infancy, considered third-world in rank…??
What’s stopping samaritan Mike from defending Mr Jammeh’s rights right under his own nose; living in the same UK, Mike can surely get in touch with Mr Jammeh through the newspapers & show his worth to redress justice for the trampled poor manotity here…???
Rectification please – thou holier-Britain – not though holier-Britain… Thank you
Bajaw,
I have suspected the relevance of Mike’s Gambian citizenship lately. He seems to be contrary to good reasoning nowadays with regards to the country’s affairs. He’s all making strange new heroes of the battle against the demonic despot and accuses others of been throwing snowballs at the inferno. I would prefer throwing snowballs at an inferno rather than petrol cannoning at it though.
Bourne and Bajaw, look for the definition of a hypocrite in the Great English Oxford Dictionary and you will see Mike’s picture. That guy is hypocrite personified.
As far as I know the only way that you can get your job back once you’ve been sacked, is to go to an employment Tribunal. As for justice in any country, if people can’t afford legal representation then they’re not likely to get justice. Realistically, protesting outside an ex employer in England is not going to get you a job back and it’s quite likely going to prevent you getting another job in the area. He’s now got himself a conviction which may prevent him getting another job.
A lack of legal representation after an innocent man was incriminated and his reputation badly stained …. and yet someone thinks he’s got himself a conviction because of the manner he protested against such injustice?? That’s because he’s not native Caucasian. He is a victim racial prejudice. The cuffs seem to be biting down to his bones. Have you noticed how he’s twitched up on one side … He looks really traumatised.
“To be black and on the move in the West is to be an object of suspicion”. Just bought it recently from a genius from Barbados. Too bad can’t recall his name.
Sure, Bourne & Buba, the Gambia being third world tyranny before & now emerging infant democracy currently, it’s perfect fertile ground for scavenging materials, ‘businesses’ in names posing a philanthropic mascot…
Mike Scales just like the kanilai devil & disciples like seeing chaos & demonic tentions in Gambia whilst hypocritically posing the opinion mediator, minority-dissent sympathiser, etc etc while pouring petrol & instigating strife in Gambia in the act, crimes which Mike surely can’t getaway with in UK & US…
Mr Adamant Jammeh for example here, needs legal help in awareness, support & sponsor for redress to his rights which have been infringed upon here, stained & scarred for life…
While he’s now incriminated for life unless reversed again legally due to the court indictment & fine, the perfect holier Britain failed to live to obligations without bias to facilitate for Mr Jammeh’s human entitlements by seeing to his reasons for the protest & guarantee to justice…?
What’s Mike saying/doing about it so far…??
What’s stopping Mike from getting in touch with Adama & facilitate for him to legal aid to clear his smear in British court & the apology & compensation he’s due, if he knew his legal rights & followed the issue from beginning…???
Hate preaching too that are inciting & explosive just like tribal animosity & other extreme views on ‘right to so-called speech freedom’ are treasonable in UK; but Mike would leap into any opportunity to fan & flame the issue whilst hypocritically playing the anointed truth sayer & the knower, living in some double standard heaven(UK)….
What else could’ve been the motives…???
The man caused major disruption to a supermarket by his behaviour ,I think he got off quite light. He dealt with the employment problem incorrectly and he’s paid the price. I wouldn’t expect that a white person would have got off any lighter.
I don’t think a native white person would have to get off with anything like it in the first place because no one dares falsely accuse him of robbery muchless his employers. You just straighten up your bow-tie of a plantation overseer, punky Hipop.
Hipop
There can’t be any peace without justice as universally acclaimed; not even the West can be exception…
Undoubtedly Mr Jammeh isn’t in know legally, as shown in the misstep on sorting out his grievance & cost economic loss to the store in question & Britain in tax revenue & costs in police expenses, etc, but also endangered his own & other lives too, in case he fell on top of & injure &/ kill anybody in the store, staff &/ customers…
But by the virtue of the court fine levied alone can indicate the court recognises the validity of the right to his motives; what’s tentatively addressed was recurrences of such disruption for the period stated…
Where they (law enforcement & judiciary) failed Mr Jammeh was the mandatory obligation owed to see to unbiased settlement of the issue in totality; to ensure to equality & truthful dispensation for fair & more just society as being preached & claimed in here(West)…???
Bajaw ,the “issue in totality “, as far as the magistrates were concerned ,would have been simply to decide if he was guilty and decide on an appropriate sentence for the offence. They may have considered his motivation and character, any previous convictions and life in general when sentencing but that would only be to determine the lightness or severity of sentence.
Of course the rational and experience lays with Mr Hipop. In that in the case of unfair dismissal, the first port of call is ACAS,,,based in Manchester. They would take up any reasonable grounds for referral free of charge and claims of this nature where proven can gain nominal compensation of up to and exceeding £20,000. As an employer I faced two cases of unfair dismissal, and won both. I based my defence on my own arbitration procedure for settlement. In that I conducted a full investigation, and took written evidence from witness’s. I then convened an interview with a witness present who took notes. Before I interviewed the employee, I warned him/her that if they lied I would have to dismiss. In my whole career I only had the miss fortune to sack 4 employees. None were ever sacked for the offence. All 4 were sacked because they lied at the interview. All 4 were alleged to have committed theft. I argued that I would rather employ a thief than a liar, because you know where you stand with a thief. Both Tribunal’s { a panel of three judges} were unanimous in supporting my procedure and my view. I later re-employed two of the litigants who were struggling financially. I even paid rent arrears of £600 for one. I had no further trouble with either and they were later promoted as loyal and trustworthy employees to Director level with a share holding.
The company won several lawtec awards for innovation and training.
AS always Mike comes with a solution with a fair chance of a good outcome. I have advised hundreds of African’s in the UK on such industrial matters and raised individual immigration matters with the appropriate Cabinet Minister.
I charge NOTHING. assholes.
Mike, only God knows what you been telling British cabinet ministers about immigration.
Thanks for your demonstrated good manners.
See you soon!
Ha ha Mr Scales, have you been reading the Serenity Prayer ? l think Mr Adama Jammeh ought to read it.
Hipop
I’m not sure if we both haven’t been saying the same thing differently in our last comments…
But there’s no doubt Mr Jammeh as an aggrieved party has been failed big time by the court of law to have addressed his rights too as expected in points of law as he’s definetly wronged which necessitated his campaign of protest & subsequent disruption…
The law’s single sided his case as in many other more before & undoubtedly after him…
Bajaw , I don’t know the fine detail of his case as I’ve only read the newspaper article. If his dismissal from employment was wrongful dismissal then that could only have been proved in an Employment Tribunal. It hasn’t been proved in an employment Tribunal presumably because he didn’t take it to the tribunal( I don’t know). There was nothing un fair in the magistrates actions as far as I can see and therefore I don’t understand why you think he has been wronged by a court of law.
Certainly he’s had misstep getting to where he got to now due to legal awareness…
But the court must know his background & grievance to have got him to this situation…
As ‘law’ universally aspire to judiciously dispense fairly between two & more parties regardless; there’s no justice/justification just to address the cause while the root cause remains; that defeats the purpose for the fairer society acclaimed…?
The court indeed took care of the supermarket & British government interest but not Mr Jammeh’s…
How does the law missed &/ fail to realise that all Mr Jammeh needed was legal guidance to ensure to his interests too & right be redressed & safeguarded as he have already been proven innocent after been wrongly accused; & now victimised twice…?
Where is the saintly justice being acclaimed here, when court of law in ‘advance states’ can deter on the interest of one side & look away from the other…?
That won’t ensure tranquillity & fairer societies…
I had a case where I employed a female to deliver stationery including heavy boxes of paper and furniture which sometime had to be carried up several flights of stairs. The first week of her employment she confided for the first time she was 6 months pregnant. I sat her down and explained I would not be comfortable asking you to lift heavy and cumbersome items and asked her to leave, paying her a full months salary.
I then get a letter and a phone call from the local Job Centre telling me they thought she had a case for unfair dismissal on the grounds that I was discriminating against a medical condition, though they had sympathy for my predicament. I asked them to get me out of this one. So I agreed to pay “the Lady ” £500.
The matter was closed.
I then employ a private agent to check this lady out. It turns out her and her boyfriend were doing the rounds with other business’s doing the same trick. They made thousands in a short space of time. I wrote the money off against tax and became much wiser, hence my established protocol for resolving employee issues. The experience saved me many sleepless nights and an awful lot of money.
Michael, considering you dismissed your dishonest employees for lying, how did you deal with the issue of trust when you reemployed them ? I think it’s really admirable that you did re employ them and good to hear that it was really successful.
Bourne, if you don’t think a white person could be falsely accused of a criminal offence by his employer in England then I assume you either don’t live in England or else have very limited experiences in England. It’s happened to a white colleague of mine regarding a very serious criminal offence that was either pure fantasy or else he would have struggled to ever find employment again. He was suspended for a long period of time before it was found that there was no case against him. He left the profession he was in and retrained as a solicitor. Regarding ” plantation overseer funky hip hop ” how do you deduce that ?
Mr Hipop/ There is always a conflict between Procedure and Wisdom. Procedure is a necessity, Wisdom is experience. All business must make an allowance for loss.
Both employees were both taken from the Job Centre off the dole. I trained them myself. Both had financial problems, probably caused because the company was a new start business, and for the first two years I paid a small basic salary and commission through sales and a fully paid for Company Car.. It takes time to learn how to earn. I had 40 years experience, The two had only a few months. The business was started with only £1248
Within two years it was turning over £500,000 per annum. It was more cost effective to keep staff than to lose time training new recruits. Both staff were showing promise. What I needed to do was take financial pressure off their shoulders. It also showed the rest of the staff, the penalty for Lies. It was a learning curve for me in staff management, and a very helpful lesson to staff not to cross that line. I ended up with a very loyal and very honest staff. Otherwise I would have had to grow another set of eyes in my back…I am too laid back for that kind of environment. I made a fortune with a minimum amount of stress. lol. It’s my nature.
My staff used to say don’t stab Mike in the back or he will stab you in the front.
{Smile } ha ha ha !!!