Compensation for disabled teenagers shooed out of beauty salon 'because they were scaring the...

Amy Fox: 'It was not very nice of them to do that to us. It was unfair' Three disabled teenagers sent out of a beauty salon for 'scaring off other customers' have won £4,500 in compensation. Amy Fox, 19, Aruna Gill, 17, and Jemimah Kumba, 14, were accompanied by two carers when they went to the salon to get their nails painted. Aruna and Jemimah, who suffers from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, both use wheelchairs and a female employee was said to have told the girls: 'This is my shop. There isn't enough room for the pushchairs.' The teenagers alleged that the Visage Hair and Beauty salon in Southall, West London, refused to serve them and they brought a claim under goods and services disability discrimination. The salon settled out of court. Amy went to the shop with the other girls and the carers in August 2006. One carer... [read full story]