![]() ![]() ![]() Vile: The emailed image of Gary Glitter with the child's face, ringed She added: 'The image is totally inappropriate and represents a gross misuse of council email.' 'The image is one currently circulating throughout the United Kingdom.' 'As of today a number of employees across the council have been dismissed and others have received final written warnings over the circulation of an email featuring the image of a child's face superimposed on a shopping bag carried by Gary Glitter. 'We do not hold photographs of children on our at risk register. She said: 'It is totally untrue that images of children on South Lanarkshire Council's at risk register have been circulated in an email. A spokesman was forced to deny reports that the image of the youngster superimposed on the picture had been taken from the council's own register of 'at risk' children. Yesterday, South Lanarkshire – the authority at the centre of the scandal – confirmed that staff had been sacked or warned. Some of those sacked are trained social workers – whose job is to protect vulnerable children.Ī council source said: 'These emails mocked the very children these people were being paid to protect.' Staff had circulated the email on the office network, where it spread within hours. Fifteen employees of South Lanarkshire Council were sacked or warned over an email image of Gary Glitterįifteen council staff, including social workers, have been sacked or reprimanded after circulating a tasteless e-mail of reviled paedophile Gary Glitter carrying a child in a shopping bag.Īn investigation was launched after an employee alerted bosses to the appalling image, which shows the convicted paedophile holding a plastic bag with a superimposed child's head popping out of the top.
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