Messages mocked her appearance & age as 'source of entertainment'

THE former manager of a North Wales GP surgery has won compensation of more than £142,000 after one of her bosses branded her an "old knacker" and said her daughter was a "fat p***k".

- By CONOR GOGARTY

Dr George Williams - a female GP who is one of the two partners at Gardden Road surgery in Rhosllanerchrugog, Wrexham - described then-practice manager Catherine Clark, 62, and her family as "the Clarkashians" in reference to the Kardashians, an American family of celebrities known for their reality TV show, an employment tribunal heard.

The judge found Dr Williams and others at the practice "looked down" on Ms Clark as a "source of entertainment and gossip.

Dr Williams gossiped about the manager's "Clarkashian" lifestyle and felt she was "incompetent and too old for her job".

At one point the GP wrote to her then-boyfriend: "Now trying to dislodge the old knacker, but like any decent tumour she has a long root!"

Employment judge Rachel Harfield said this was harassment related to age and it was "a reference to an old horse that needed to be put down in that the claimant should no longer work there".