Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
18th October 2012, 16:15
A gay couple who were turned away from a bed and breakfast were discriminated against, it has been ruled.
Michael Black, 64, and John Morgan, 59, booked a double room at the Swiss Bed and Breakfast in Berkshire via email.
When they arrived in March 2010, owner Susanne Wilkinson would not let them stay in a room with a double bed.
The couple, from Brampton near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire were awarded £1,800 each at Reading County Court for "injury to feelings".
Recorder Claire Moulder said that by refusing the couple access to a double room, Mrs Wilkinson had "treated them less favourably than she would treat unmarried heterosexual couples in the same circumstances".
It comes as a similar case in Cornwall awaits a Supreme Court hearing.
(More on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19991266)
Michael Black, 64, and John Morgan, 59, booked a double room at the Swiss Bed and Breakfast in Berkshire via email.
When they arrived in March 2010, owner Susanne Wilkinson would not let them stay in a room with a double bed.
The couple, from Brampton near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire were awarded £1,800 each at Reading County Court for "injury to feelings".
Recorder Claire Moulder said that by refusing the couple access to a double room, Mrs Wilkinson had "treated them less favourably than she would treat unmarried heterosexual couples in the same circumstances".
It comes as a similar case in Cornwall awaits a Supreme Court hearing.
(More on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19991266)