McDonald’s Nottingham manager who ‘exposed woman’s buttocks when he yanked down her trousers’ jailed
Stuart Hubbard, 26, claimed he yanked down the tracksuit bottoms of the victim "for a joke" at the Nottingham branch of the fast food giant
A MCDONALD'S manager who pulled down a woman's trousers in front of customers has been jailed.
Stuart Hubbard said it was done "for a joke" while he was in charge of the Nottingham branch of the fast food giant.
His victim was left ashamed and "completely humiliated".
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had her tracksuit bottoms yanked down in the busy branch.
One customer felt so disgusted she wrote to McDonald's to complain.
Sentencing Hubbard on Tuesday, Judge Stuart Rafferty criticised the "lax attitude" of McDonald's, who did not immediately investigate the complaint.
When it was looked into, Hubbard was suspended, then moved to another branch, then handed a final warning.
Hubbard, of Stapleford, Notts, pleaded guilty to common assault when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court.
He was jailed for 28 days.
Judge Rafferty told him: "You pulled down her baggy tracksuit bottoms and exposed what is a private part of the body to 12 customers and five members of staff.
"In her victim impact statement she says 'I was totally humiliated by the entire incident'.
"She is now haunted as to whether strangers who were in the restaurant that morning will see her in the street and say 'there she is, there is the girl whose buttocks were exposed in McDonald's'."
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Tony Stanford, prosecuting, said the incident took place at 1am on February 18, when Hubbard came up behind the victim and pulled her tracksuit bottoms down.
He said: "A female customer who was in the restaurant wrote to McDonald's about what she witnessed.
"In her email she said, 'I was absolutely disgusted'."
He said the victim had reported the incident to McDonald's, but they only opened an investigation after the complaint was received from the female customer above.
Hubbard was arrested, and in interview claimed there were only two people in the restaurant at the time and that he did not mean to pull the tracksuit bottoms down as far as he did.
Martin Smith,defending, said his client carried out the act "in a moment of madness".
He said: "He knows it was a gross error of judgement which had a devastating impact on his victim."
Hubbard was also ordered to pay his victim £500 in compensation.
After the case, a McDonald's spokesman said: "We regret that anyone feels we were slow to respond to this matter, which was inappropriate and unacceptable.
"As soon as we were made aware of the incident he was immediately suspended while we carried out a thorough investigation."
Earlier this month a manager in a McDonald's branch angered a mum whose daughter picked up a dirty syringe in the restaurant's disabled toilets.
Yesterday it was claimed that a collapsed roof in Manchester's Victoria station was caused by McDonald's loving seagulls pecking at the panels after they were drawn by the smell of the fast food.
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