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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Rachel Pugh & Asha Patel

Tesco employee caught getting petrol from closed station - but supermarket says man who filmed him is 'in the wrong'

People who shop at Tesco have been left furious after a video of a staff member putting petrol in his car went viral. The Tesco employee was filmed putting fuel into his car, despite the Tesco petrol station he was in being closed to the public at the time.

Large queues have built up outside the Tesco branch in Leicestershire over the last week as protests at fuel plants across the UK led to a shortage of petrol. As a result, the Tesco petrol station in question had been forced to turn away customers.

Drivers are being advised to fill up with what they need with the majority of petrol stations in Cambridgeshire, Kent and London closed as eco activists continued to block oil terminals. One motorist was left fuming when he noticed a supermarket worker filling up their car with £53 worth of fuel Tesco said it would not tolerate abusive behaviour towards its staff after footage of the incident emerged.

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