Payout for bar manager told she looked 'very Aryan'

Ahmed Magdy Soliman made race-related remarks to Sky Sinclair at the pub

A bar manager told she looked "very Aryan" by her boss has won nearly £17,000 after a tribunal found she was discriminated against and unfairly dismissed.

Sky Sinclair worked at Glasgow pub The Old Toll Bar, where director Ahmed Magdy Soliman made the remarks to her.

Ms Sinclair felt "uncomfortable", the tribunal was told, when Mr Soliman said: "You look very Aryan with your blue eyes and blond hair" in the summer of 2023.

He also said: "Oh yeah, forgot you like white people better" after she bought a coffee for a white colleague, and asked her "how was Germany". Ms Sinclair had no connection to Germany.

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