Teenager wrongly accused of not having paid for pizza settles case for €12.5k

A Dominos Pizza assistant had said to the teenager: “We are not a charity like St Vincent de Paul. We don’t give out food for free.”

A year ago in Dominos Pizza in Citywest, Dublin, the teenager had been kept waiting outside for 20 minutes after having insisted on the gardaí being called. He eventually left without the food he had paid for. File image

A teenage member of the Traveller community, who was wrongly accused of not having paid for a takeaway in a pizza store, was told by a member of staff that the shop was no St Vincent de Paul giving out free food, a judge heard today.

Barrister Tim Sheehan, told Judge John O’Connor in the Circuit Civil Court that just a year ago in Dominos Pizza in Citywest, Dublin, the teenager had been kept waiting outside for 20 minutes after having insisted on the gardaí being called. He eventually left without the food he had paid for.