>An ambulance worker whose wife tried to kill their manager with a hammer was unfairly sacked, a tribunal has concluded.
>Paula Smith’s wife, Stacey Smith, who worked with her in patient transport based at Oldham ambulance station, Greater Manchester, was jailed in October 2024 for trying to kill their boss Michala Morton the previous November in a row over rotas, the tribunal was told.
>Police also arrested Paula Smith on suspicion of harassing and threatening to kill the manager but decided to take no further action against her in April 2024. She was then sacked by North West Ambulance Service Trust three weeks later.
>Stacey Smith was found guilty of attempted murder and jailed for 20 years.
>Paula Smith was dismissed and told her “known arrest and association with someone who has been charged with attempted murder of your operations manager” undermined the trust in the service and those who operated it, according to the tribunal judgement.
>In a reserved judgement, an employment judge wrote: “Patients, and the general public, an even more remote group, would, the tribunal considers, be highly unlikely even to make the connection, and, even if they did, they would be highly unlikely to consider that they were at any risk from the claimant.”
>He said the trust also “focused very heavily upon the claimant’s arrest and bail conditions, but neither of these received any publicity”.
>The remedy to which Paula Smith is entitled will be considered further, if required, at another hearing.
limaconnect77 on
The suggestion is nutter’s spouse also did nutter things (harassment and threats), however the police couldn’t or wouldn’t really do anything about it.
So, employer reasons on the side of caution and fires this leaser of the nutters but crucially doesn’t dot the eyes and cross the Ts on WHY they wanted to bin the person.
DaveBlerk on
AIO I want to sack someone because their partner tried to kill me?
Overseerer-Vault-101 on
The arrest sounds bad but it’s not above the police to do that to try and gain more information or an incrimination from the partner to gain evidence. I may be giving the benefit of doubt to the partner but thats only as i know first hand how blinkered and cunty the police can be.
limeflavoured on
Well yeah, guilt by association isn’t likely to be a good reason to sack someone.
Lanfeix on
So the article use the wifes picture. Stacey Smith attacked her boss and left the boss for dead.Â
>Â Stacey Smith waited outside her boss’s home on Tameside before the unprovoked attack on the morning of 11 November 2023.
The 46-year-old later texted a friend to say “I’ve smashed her head in – Oopsie xx” after leaving her victim with “serious head injuries”, police said.Â
Smith, from Newton Heath in Manchester, was found guilty of attempted murder and jailed for 20 years, with a five year licence period to follow.Â
Manchester Crown Court heard she told police she had a disagreement with her manager about shift patterns after their relationship had deteriorated since the Covid pandemic.
She screamed at her boss and threatened to kill her as she attacked her outside her home at 05:30 GMT.
‘I’ve done it’
The court heard she struck her victim repeatedly in the head with the hammer, causing serious injuries and breaking her wrist as she tried to defend herself.
The reason she won the case is because the police arrest for a violent crime doesnt need to have enought evidence to charge. It can just be on suspicion, that way they can use it to gather evidence and possibly protect innocent people. The problem is society has now made it that being arrested is the same as guilty. organisations will happily fire some one for being arrested. Nothing in the articles the bbc had shows that the wife Paula Smith the woman from the tribunal when anything about the attack. And the accused “harassment” was probably Paula trying to ask for rota shift changes for Stacey before Stacey went off the rails.Â
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>An ambulance worker whose wife tried to kill their manager with a hammer was unfairly sacked, a tribunal has concluded.
>Paula Smith’s wife, Stacey Smith, who worked with her in patient transport based at Oldham ambulance station, Greater Manchester, was jailed in October 2024 for trying to kill their boss Michala Morton the previous November in a row over rotas, the tribunal was told.
>Police also arrested Paula Smith on suspicion of harassing and threatening to kill the manager but decided to take no further action against her in April 2024. She was then sacked by North West Ambulance Service Trust three weeks later.
>Stacey Smith was found guilty of attempted murder and jailed for 20 years.
>Paula Smith was dismissed and told her “known arrest and association with someone who has been charged with attempted murder of your operations manager” undermined the trust in the service and those who operated it, according to the tribunal judgement.
>In a reserved judgement, an employment judge wrote: “Patients, and the general public, an even more remote group, would, the tribunal considers, be highly unlikely even to make the connection, and, even if they did, they would be highly unlikely to consider that they were at any risk from the claimant.”
>He said the trust also “focused very heavily upon the claimant’s arrest and bail conditions, but neither of these received any publicity”.
>The remedy to which Paula Smith is entitled will be considered further, if required, at another hearing.
The suggestion is nutter’s spouse also did nutter things (harassment and threats), however the police couldn’t or wouldn’t really do anything about it.
So, employer reasons on the side of caution and fires this leaser of the nutters but crucially doesn’t dot the eyes and cross the Ts on WHY they wanted to bin the person.
AIO I want to sack someone because their partner tried to kill me?
The arrest sounds bad but it’s not above the police to do that to try and gain more information or an incrimination from the partner to gain evidence. I may be giving the benefit of doubt to the partner but thats only as i know first hand how blinkered and cunty the police can be.
Well yeah, guilt by association isn’t likely to be a good reason to sack someone.
So the article use the wifes picture. Stacey Smith attacked her boss and left the boss for dead.Â
>Â Stacey Smith waited outside her boss’s home on Tameside before the unprovoked attack on the morning of 11 November 2023.
The 46-year-old later texted a friend to say “I’ve smashed her head in – Oopsie xx” after leaving her victim with “serious head injuries”, police said.Â
Smith, from Newton Heath in Manchester, was found guilty of attempted murder and jailed for 20 years, with a five year licence period to follow.Â
Manchester Crown Court heard she told police she had a disagreement with her manager about shift patterns after their relationship had deteriorated since the Covid pandemic.
She screamed at her boss and threatened to kill her as she attacked her outside her home at 05:30 GMT.
‘I’ve done it’
The court heard she struck her victim repeatedly in the head with the hammer, causing serious injuries and breaking her wrist as she tried to defend herself.
The reason she won the case is because the police arrest for a violent crime doesnt need to have enought evidence to charge. It can just be on suspicion, that way they can use it to gather evidence and possibly protect innocent people. The problem is society has now made it that being arrested is the same as guilty. organisations will happily fire some one for being arrested. Nothing in the articles the bbc had shows that the wife Paula Smith the woman from the tribunal when anything about the attack. And the accused “harassment” was probably Paula trying to ask for rota shift changes for Stacey before Stacey went off the rails.Â