From Bakerloo line branch newsletter

Jerome Bowes, a CSA at Elephant & Castle was sacked recently after an altercation on the barrier on New Year's Eve.

Jerome was witness to a violent fight between two passengers and when the fight broke up our fellow member started taking lots of verbal abuse from one of the passengers.

He was moving to a place of safety when this Passenger punched him in the back and our colleague swung round to defend himself and caught the person fracturing a small bone in his own wrist. The police were called and the Met police turned up. After they had spoke to the Passenger they let him go. When BTP turned up they were reportedly amazed that the passenger had been allowed to leave so nothing formal was taken up by the police.

Jerome went to hospital that night to have his arm checked out where it was set in plaster and he was
told to rest up and signed off from work.

Witnesses to the incidents clearly state Jerome was not at fault and was defending himself from further attacks, not knowing whether he had been punched or struck with a weapon. None of this was taken
into consideration by management and Jerome has been hung out to dry.

What is amazing about this case is that the Police didn't find anything which warranted an arrest but LUL found evidence to take our Brother's livelihood away.

Witnesses state that he was not assaulted but management are happy to sack a member of staff who was the person assaulted.

This could quite easily happen to any of us.

The Bakerloo Branch has requested that the station staff on the south group are balloted for strike action and that the matter is taken up at Directors level.

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