07 June 2007
In brief
A Blackpool tattoo parlour has had to pay out £2,500 in compensation plus costs for refusing to give a 24-year-old woman a tattoo because she is disabled. Cerebral palsy sufferer, Rachael Monk, who uses a wheelchair and speaks through a Delta Talker, visited Body Creation with her family and requested a tattoo of a fairy on her arm. Owner Jordan Dean told the family: “We don’t do people like that,” before calling in his dad who, according to the judge, adopted an “old-fashioned and highly discriminatory attitude” and offered “gratuitous insults”. The family contacted the Disability Rights Commission, and the case went to court.
