Amazon worker sacked for being robbed

An Amazon driver has been fired after being robbed while working.

In December, Martyn Gilham, 28, was attacked by a thief who stole his van in while he was delivering Amazon packages in Coventry. In total, 62 packages from the online giant were taken.

Gilham’s employer, Fast Despatch Transport Ltd, were not sympathetic. They fired Gilham and told him he would have to wait to be paid, after they see “what will be the bill for the van and for the parcels inside.”

“It has left me in total shock,” Gilham told the Mirror. “I feel like I was blamed for something that wasn't my fault at all. I’m a victim of crime and yet I'm the one who's getting blamed."