Welsh dealership fined £26,000 for deliberately coughing on employee during pandemic

The owner of a Welsh dealership group must pay over £26,000 to a female employee for deliberately coughing in her face during the pandemic.

Kevin Davies who owns Cawdor Cars, a dealership with six branches across Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, was found to have mocked the employee who had requested that fellow workers maintain social distancing because she suffered from psoriatic arthritis and an autoimmune condition.

Judge Tobias Vincent Ryan stated that Davies had deliberately 'coughed in her direction deliberately and loudly, commenting that she was being ridiculous’.

He described Davies' actions on March 17, 2020 - a week before the first lockdown was announced - as a deliberate attempt to 'ridicule and intimidate' the woman.

The employee had worked at Cawdor Cars from 2017 to 2020, earning £11 an hour as a property manager.