On 7th January it was reported that a postman who was unfairly sacked by Royal Mail for urinating in public has won nearly £40,000 after a tribunal heard “there is not a post person alive” who has not had to.
Roo Rawal was dismissed from Royal Mail's Watford depot for gross misconduct after a member of the public filmed him relieving himself in a lay-by after getting caught short while driving his delivery van. The veteran postman reportedly named at least 12 colleagues who had also urinated in public and not been fired - with some doing so in people's gardens.
According to The Daily Mail, one postman even told the hearing, “There was not a post person alive, man or woman, who [...] had not been caught short [...] and had to urinate in public.”
Now Mr Rawal has been awarded £37,720 in compensation after Royal Mail was judged to have dismissed him unfairly.
