Train worker sacked after passengers served sausage rolls taken from bin said he’d ‘gone too far for the customer’
First class rail passengers served sausage rolls ‘retrieved from bin’
- An LNER train worker, Peter Duffy, was dismissed after being accused of serving first-class passengers sausage rolls "retrieved from a bin".
- The incident, which occurred on 7 May 2023 on a service departing York, was reported by a colleague who suspected food hygiene breaches.
- CCTV footage reportedly showed Mr Duffy retrieving discarded food items from a bin, plating them, and reheating them before they were served.
- Mr Duffy claimed he was "trying to do the best for the customer" and cited anxiety, depression, and transient global amnesia as factors.
- He was dismissed for gross misconduct in July 2023, and his subsequent claims of unfair dismissal and discrimination were rejected by a tribunal in August 2025.