Subway fined over £6,000 after employee was trapped in chiller

A Subway store has been fined thousands of pounds after employee Karlee Daubeney spent the night locked in a fridge last December.

Daubeney was working the late shift by herself and went to put milk in the chiller at 11:15pm. The door closed behind her, and she was stuck there until 7:30am the next morning, when a colleague arrived for the day shift to open up.

Upon realising her situation, she wrote ‘help’ in ketchup on cardboard and slid it under the door, hoping that it would be seen on CCTV, but it wasn’t.

Speaking at the case, Daubeney said: "At first I was in a state of panic and I was looking for anything that could have opened the door. I was trying to write 'help' on pieces of cardboard to slide under the door. I think it was with ketchup.