{"id":166730,"date":"2015-11-13T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=166730"},"modified":"2015-11-13T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:00:45","slug":"top-gear-producer-to-sue-clarkson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=166730","title":{"rendered":"Top Gear producer to sue Clarkson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The producer punched by Jeremy Clarkson is suing the former Top Gear host and the BBC for racial discrimination.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Clarkson and the BBC attended a closed-door hearing with Oisin Tymon’s legal team at a London employment tribunal on Friday.<\/p>\n

The case centres on “verbal abuse” that accompanied a physical attack during which Clarkson struck Tymon in March.<\/p>\n

Clarkson, who was dropped by the BBC following an internal inquiry, will front a new show on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n

The inquiry, headed up by Ken MacQuarrie, found Mr Tymon was subject to an “unprovoked physical and verbal attack”.<\/p>\n

Lawyers Slater & Gordon confirmed on Friday that they had been engaged by the producer.<\/p>\n

A statement by the BBC said: “We will be responding to this claim, but will not be commenting further at this time.”<\/p>\n

Witnesses<\/strong><\/p>\n

The assault took place at a North Yorkshire hotel, after Clarkson was told there was no hot food available at the end of a day’s shooting on location.<\/p>\n

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Tymon had worked on Top Gear for nearly 10 years before the incident.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As part of the inquiry, statements were given by two unnamed witnesses to the incident on 4 March.<\/p>\n

The producer, who suffered swelling and bleeding to his lip in the altercation, drove himself to hospital after the incident believing he had lost his job.<\/p>\n

BBC director general, Tony Hall, said Clarkson had subjected an “innocent party [to] a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature”.<\/p>\n

At the time of the attack, Mr Tymon told police he did not wish to press charges.<\/p>\n

In the days following the assault, he was the subject of sustained abuse on social media for his involvement in the dispute – prompting Clarkson himself to urge his fans to show restraint.<\/p>\n

“I wish people would leave Ois alone because none of this was his fault,” the presenter told reporters in March.<\/p>\n

Clarkson will be joined by his erstwhile Top Gear co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May on a new show for Amazon Prime, to be broadcast next year.
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