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29 Jun 2009 - Boss wins £160,000 payout after being shot and fired on the same day
Ex-pat Sean Daley, 31 has been awarded £160,000 after he was shot four times and sacked by his employer on the same day.
The High Court heard that Mr Daley was employed to run a struggling mill in Kyrgyzstan central Asia and was paid irregularly by Camco Corporation Ltd, a business and management consultancy firm based in Caerphilly, south Wales.
The court heard that Mr Daley would often borrow money or use his own funds to keep the mill afloat due to a lack of operating funds, He was told to sell the mill and eventually found some buyers from Khazakstan in May 2005.
On the 6th July 2006 Mr Daley was shot by unknown gunmen while leaving his home in the Kyrgyzstan capital, Bishkek. While in hospital he received a letter from Camco, dated the day of the attack, informing him that he had also been made redundant. A bullet was lodged in Mr Daley's liver and he was flown back to the UK for treatment. Doctors had to remove one kidney and part of his other kidney.
In 2008 Mr Daley took his claim to Oxford District Registry court where he was awarded £161, 559 in back pay, £49,470 in interest, plus "reasonable contributions" to his pension fund.
Camco appealed the decision accusing Mr Daley of fraud, but the High Court upheld the original ruling and ordered the firm to pay his heavy legal costs, £40,000 of which he should receive immediately.
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