![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wetherspoons-says-sorry-after-barring-two-furious-pensioners-from-pub-inside-24-hours/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_THP_CHP_160823Slug_0879JPG.jpg&description=Linda Whittet was told the news a day after Derek Jamieson was falsely accused of 'throwing a glass' at a transgender guest at the Wetherspoons pub in Broughty Ferry, Scotland Wetherspoons has been forced to apologise after banning two loyal pensioners for bad behaviour in a case of mistaken identity. Linda Whittet turned up at Jolly's Hotel in Broughty Ferry, Scotland, last week only to be told she had been barred from the venue over an incident a few weeks earlier. It came 24 hours after Derek Jamieson, also 72, was falsely accused of 'throwing a glass' at a transgender guest last month. The chain hit the headlines back in 2018 after a 69-year-old said he had been banned from Spoons for complaining about being only served five chicken nuggets. Now more guests have been left angry and Mrs Whittet said she was stunned after being finding out she wasn't welcome and says she was 'shaken' after being told it is now a police matter. She is now allowed back in but says she struggles to go to her local after being left embarrassed last Wednesday. She was unbanned a day after bosses says they got it totally wrong after accusing Mr Jamieson of the assault. The woman told The Courier: 'I went up to order the coffees, then a young member of staff came over to me and said I had been identified as someone who had been banned from the premises.I thought it was a joke at first but he was deadly serious. "He wouldn't tell me exactly what I had done wrong. I am really quite stressed about this. I was so taken aback, he wasn't nice about it. Now I'm frightened to put my foot in the door." Mr Jamieson, a retired photographer, was stunned to find out he was banned and said he had nothing to do with the incident, saying: 'I honestly thought it was a wind-up and told the staff member they had the wrong person. It was embarrassing. When they said I'd acted in a threatening manner and thrown a glass at a trans person I couldn't believe it.' Wetherspoons issued two statements a day apart a){kind=link}
Linda Whittet was told the news a day after Derek Jamieson was falsely accused of ‘throwing a glass’ at a transgender guest at the Wetherspoons pub in Broughty Ferry, Scotland
Wetherspoons has been forced to apologise after banning two loyal pensioners for bad behaviour in a case of mistaken identity.
Linda Whittet turned up at Jolly’s Hotel in Broughty Ferry, Scotland, last week only to be told she had been barred from the venue over an incident a few weeks earlier. It came 24 hours after Derek Jamieson, also 72, was falsely accused of “throwing a glass” at a transgender guest last month.
The chain hit the headlines back in 2018 after a 69-year-old said he had been banned from Spoons for complaining about being only served five chicken nuggets. Now more guests have been left angry and Mrs Whittet said she was stunned after being finding out she wasn’t welcome and says she was ‘shaken’ after being told it is now a police matter.
She is now allowed back in but says she struggles to go to her local after being left embarrassed last Wednesday. She was unbanned a day after bosses says they got it totally wrong after accusing Mr Jamieson of the assault.