£171,000 racial harassment compensation for soldier

A tribunal has ruled that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) should pay an ex-soldier £171,000 compensation, after the soldier was racially harassed and discriminated against.

Staff sergeant David Howard had been in the army for 20 years, and was serving in Germany at the time within the NATO rapid reaction force. Much of the case was based around a mock job description which Mr Howard discovered in his file, which referred to him as 'Bubba Howard' (a black soldier with learning difficulties in t... (97 more words)

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