Axe attack council worker 'was unfairly sacked'
A convicted murderer who tried to attack a colleague with an axe in an Indian restaurant has won his claim that a council unfairly sacked him over the incident.
James Robertson, 50, had worked as a senior health inspector with Preston City Council in Lancashire for 10 years after being released from jail on licence.
He had been jailed for kicking a man to death in Glasgow in 1971.
But he was dismissed after he went into the Maharajah restaurant in Preston in 1991 brandishing the axe after an argument started with a fellow Town Hall worker.
He was later given five years for affray and attempted grievous bodily harm over the fracas.
A Manchester employment tribunal upheld Robertson's claim that the council was wrong to sack him without notice. He had also claimed he had not been given a fair disciplinary hearing......
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