Outrage after ‘security guard THROWS away homeless couple’s sleeping bags’ outside M&S store
M&S claims the man in the picture doesn't work for them - and the council says he's not one of its employees either
A SECURITY guard has been branded "disgusting" after being seen throwing away a homeless couple's sleeping bag outside an M&S store in freezing temperatures.
Wez James saw who the worker outside the Manchester Piccadilly Marks and Spencer outlet grabbing the pair's belongings with a litter picker and lobbing them in a bin.
The former charity worker said the rough sleepers had gone to use the toilet in a nearby Burger King at around 11.30am on Tuesday when it happened, reports the .
Wez told the paper: "Me and my friend approached the security guard and asked what he was doing.
"He turned round to me and said Greater Manchester Police said they told them if the sleeping bags are left unattended they could bin them.
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"I said 'that's not true'."
When Wez claims he asked the man to stop he was told: "If you obstruct me, I will call the police."
An M&S spokesman claimed the man pictured does not work for the store.
And when Wez went into the shop and asked to speak to the manager he was allegedly told there was "no security guard working that days and the matter was "out of his hands".
The 26-year-old added: "I then went to the homeless man and woman the sleeping bags belong to in order to tell them what had happened so they could retrieve them from the bin.
"They could have frozen to death. I find it disgusting that anyone could do that as my friend Liam has been on the streets and this brought back bad memories."
According to the Mirror the "guard" does not work for Manchester City Council either and Greater Manchester Police claimed no report of a crime has since been made.
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