Moaning Michelle booted me out of £42k job for no good reason

Tribunal hits out as her husband’s housekeeper wins case

- SALLY HIND

AN EX-HOUSEKEEPER at Michelle Mone’s £25million mansion has won a payout after telling a tribunal of her shock dismissal by the Scots underwear tycoon.

Deborah Wendy Lace, a former long-term employee of Baroness Mone’s billionaire husband Doug Barrowman at their Isle of Man estate, told of her “immensely upsetting” relationship with the ex-Ultimo boss.

And she claimed the Tory peer’s “previous behaviour” had led to other staff employed during Barrowman’s previous marriage quitting or being dismissed.

Lace was awarded more than £22,500 for unfair dismissal from her £42,000 role by an employment tribunal on the Isle of Man.

And the tribunal criticised Mone – referred to by her husband as the “new lady of the house” – saying she had “no status” with the company to terminate Lace’s 12-year employment and had “interfered” in her job.

The housekeeper was called into a meeting in June last year with Baroness Mone and given her notice.