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Rachel Smith & Sara Odeen-Isbister

Healthcare boss tells woman with Tourette's 'she shouldn't be let out' in vile rant

The owner of a healthcare company subjected a young woman with Tourettes to vile verbal abuse about her disability.

Paul Halliday, 52, launched a tirade of abuse at the the woman, who is 24, when she accidently brushed past him in a supermarket due to an involuntary arm tic.

He called her a s**z and said "people like you shouldn't be let out", Blackburn Magistrates Court heard.

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