Monday, 1 March 2010

Another one for JuliaM

From The Bristol Post:

The woman who claimed she was thrown off a bus for breastfeeding her six-week-old baby made the story up.

Amy Wootten said she had been ordered off a First bus travelling from the city centre to her Stockwood home after a fellow passenger complained about her feeding daughter Emily. First initially apologised to Miss Wootten for the "distress" caused to her in the alleged incident and issued a statement to the Evening Post.

But during an investigation launched by the company CCTV from the bus was subsequently examined and found to show that Miss Wootten was not forced off the vehicle in Wells Road by the driver as she claimed. The footage, seen by the Post, shows that driver, Rob Stone, did not even speak to her during the journey along the 54 route on Tuesday and it shows the time she got off the bus and the location..

I suppose it's possible that the bus company found CCTV of the same woman on a completely different day, but that seems unlikely.

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