Back on track | Sacked train driver who left spider skin in colleague's pigeonhole wins job back

Sacked train driver who left spider skin in colleague's pigeonhole wins job back

A train driver who was sacked after leaving a spider skin in a co-worker’s pigeonhole has been awarded more than £42,000 and given his job back.

Jonathan Richardson pranked his colleague by placing a tarantula in a female driver’s pigeonhole after she admitted a fear of them, but the joke backfired when the woman reported him to bosses, resulting in him losing his job on the grounds of bullying.

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