LNER Train employee Peter Duffy sacked after passengers served sausage rolls taken from a bin | EUROtoday

A prepare employee has been sacked after top notch passengers have been served sausage rolls taken from a bin.

Peter Duffy, who was an worker for London North Eastern Railway (LNER), was accused of making ready sausage rolls “retrieved from a bin” for first-class passengers, which a colleague then served.

The incident was reported by one other prepare crew member, who overheard laughter from the kitchen earlier than service and later famous the bin was empty, regardless of being instructed earlier that no sausage rolls have been accessible as that they had been thrown away.

Mr Duffy claimed he had “gone too far for the customer”.

On May 7 2023, Mr Duffy and a fellow prepare crew member have been working onboard an LNER service departing York, when two passengers in top notch requested sausage rolls.

The colleague who reported considerations stated: “Myself and a host from standard class had been in the kitchen to get ourselves food when the host who was cooking told us the sausage rolls had just gone in the bin.”

Later, the member of employees reported listening to “lots of laughing” from contained in the kitchen the place Mr Duffy and his colleague have been primarily based, earlier than reminding them a passenger was sat close by.

They added: “A couple of minutes later one of the hosts from first class took the sausage rolls to Coach K.

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“After I had finished my food I took my rubbish to the bin in the kitchen and this is when noticed the bins were empty and there were no sausage rolls in the bin.”

The member of employees claimed Mr Duffy had retrieved the meals from a bin earlier than plating and reheating them.

His colleague from the kitchen was then stated to have served the meals to the shoppers sitting in top notch.

Mr Duffy was instructed that CCTV footage had been retrieved and appeared to indicate that objects of meals that have been disposed of in a bin had been retrieved by him within the presence of his colleague.

The footage urged the meals was then plated and re-heated by Mr Duffy and subsequently served to clients by his colleague.

Both have been suspended by the prepare firm pending an investigation into the alleged breach of meals hygiene requirements.

At an investigatory assembly on May 17 2023, Mr Duffy stated he was “a person who goes over and beyond for the customer”.

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“I clearly took them out as there were none left for people in first class but they were wrapped in foil,” he stated.

“We had totally ran out, I have just gone too far for the customer in my mind.”

He stated he suffered from anxiousness and despair, was on remedy and had been pressured with work however added: “That was me trying to do the best for the customer which I am well known for.”

A union consultant current on the investigation stated Mr Duffy “had suffered from a recognised condition that day, known as transient global amnesia”.

Transient international amnesia is a sudden, non permanent interruption of short-term reminiscence.

Mr Duffy’s colleague denied seeing him take the sausage rolls out of the bin and stated they have been laughing as a result of she had handed wind however the tribunal discovered her proof was unreliable as was prone to be self-serving.

Mr Duffy was discovered to have dedicated gross misconduct and was dismissed in July 2023.

He claimed unfair dismissal and discrimination at a tribunal in Newcastle in August 2025 however each complaints have been dismissed.

In causes printed on Wednesday to help the judgment, the tribunal choose stated LNER had acted fairly in deciding to dismiss Mr Duffy and the actions which prompted his dismissal weren’t one thing that arose in consequence of his incapacity.