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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

DPD courier firm unfairly fired London employee who took food from parcels, tribunal rules

DPD’s London South depot in Croydon

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A courier giant unfairly fired an employee at its south London depot who took food from unclaimed parcels - because it failed to properly investigate his claim management was encouraging it, a tribunal has ruled.

Delivery firm DPD fired Wiliam Morty from his role as a depot operative from its Croydon warehouse after he was caught on camera opening an unclaimed food parcel and putting its contents into a Sainsbury’s carrier bag in 2018.

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