Supervisor bullied Halfords workshop apprentice, set his trousers on hearth

A supervisor at a Halfords tyre workshop racially harassed and bullied a 17-year-old apprentice, together with one occasion the place he set the terrified teenager’s trousers on hearth.

The apprentice, who was Polish, was subjected to abusive and racist language by the supervisor whereas coaching on the automobile restore workshop in 2022 and 2023.

However the supervisor, Tony Jolly, did not imagine he’d achieved fallacious, as he pleaded not responsible to prices of assault and harrassment.

Jurors listening to the case at Aberdeen Sheriff Court docket disagreed, after contemplating the proof, and have discovered him responsible this month.

The courtroom was instructed that between October 1 in 2022 and February 17 the next 12 months Jolly, of Wallfield Crescent in Aberdeen, pursued a racially aggravated course of conduct which amounted to harassment.