Disabled girls 'shooed' out of beauty salon win court case

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The trio visited the Visage salon in Southall to get their nails painted.

Their carer checked with staff that they were not busy and arrived five minutes later with the girls, two of whom were in wheelchairs.

But another woman employee, in her 40s, allegedly took one look at them and claimed that the salon was "fully booked". Referring to the wheelchairs, she allegedly said: "This is my shop. There isn't room for the pushchairs".

The woman is said to have added that the girls "were scaring off the other customers" before "shooing" them out of the door. The girls - Jemimah Kumba, 14, Aruna Gill, 17, and Amy Fox, 19 - all suffer from physical or mental disability.

They brought a county court claim of goods and services disability discrimination, alleging that their custom was wrongly refused and that they were treated in a "rude and distressing manner" in August 2006.

But the salon settled their case out of court, paying each of the girls £1,500.

The trio's solicitor, Claire Dawson, said: "The girls just wanted to be treated like ordinary teenagers and it is a sad reflection on our society that prejudice got in the way".