Sacked charity worker wins £14,500 payout

A CHARITY worker who was sacked for stealing from the shop she worked in has won more than £14,500.

Elizabeth Donnelly was dismissed when bosses believed she had stolen a television that was donated to the British Heart Foundation shop where she worked in Dumfries.

When four televisions were donated to the shop by a local health club and Mrs Donnelly knew they would not be able to be sold on, she took one home and said she would make a donation if it worked.

Bosses believed she had taken the television for her own purpose.

An employment tribunal in Glasgow ruled that she had been unfairly dismissed and awarded Mrs Donnelly £14,795.50.

It said: “We concluded the investigation was fundamentally flawed and the respondent did not have reasonable grounds.”