Black warehouse worker wins £3,000 payout over colleague’s ‘slave’ graffito

Seedy Fofana sought 500,000 compensation over graffito that colleague in Gloucester did not mean as racial slur

A Black warehouse worker has won a race harassment claim after a disgruntled colleague wrote the word slave" on a piece of machinery.

The colleague had meant it not as a racial slur but as an expression of his anger at, as he saw it, being overworked and underpaid, an employment tribunal heard.