Has anyone seen that video of the barmaid in Cardiff whose colleague "hugged" her so hard she passed out?

It's got a trigger warning for graphic violence on the BBC site, for goodness sake. How could they have missed it? And he knew what he was doing. When her handbag slipped from her arm, it was clear she was passing out.

Makes you wonder what those management staff get up to at home, doesn't it?

What did those people need to see before they realised they were employing a violent aggressive man who was assaulting their staff? It's not like that was subtle. I can't imagine not dealing with it at the time, I can't imagine seeing an employee with health and emotional consequences from that incident and not taking action. Shocking.

The poor woman woke up the next day thinking she had had a stroke. She had no idea what he had done until she saw the cctv.

Exactly.

If that incident had been typical male-on-male violence and he'd punched out his male manager, who had hit his head on the fall and suffered facial paralysis, this bloke would have been serving a considerable sentence, let alone got the bloody sack.

Instead, it's typical male-on-female violence so nobody gives a fuck.

We seem to be in an era where a man can do pretty much anything he likes to a woman as long as he says it was about sex/bantz/his poor unfortunate inability to understand. Used to be that it was just some men who could get away with that in relation to women they "owned", now it's all of them with any woman.

The poor woman woke up the next day thinking she had had a stroke. She had no idea what he had done until she saw the cctv.

Has he since been arrested?

This has made me so angry.

This is a perfect example of the problem with our perceptions of consent/sexual violence - although I know this wasn't "sexual violence", just violence starting off as a sort of friendly intimacy - but the end result is the same. It's always suggested that there was a line that the poor man didn't realise he was stepping over. Like the Belfast rape trial, she consented to a kiss with one man, therefore it's reasonable to assume she was happy to be gang-raped and have her insides torn. Because how were they supposed to know that that wasn't OK? It's such a fine line, isn't it, that how could a man ever know?

Here we have a hug. A hug is OK, lots of people hug. She didn't look like she had much choice about the hug, IMO, but she probably didn't really mind. But it wasn't a hug - it was, as it always is, a man displaying his power and aggression over a woman. She stopped feeling comfortable with the hug, then tried to escape. And then, since he doesn't care about whether she wants it, because it was never a "hug" in the first place - that was just the means used to get close enough in proximity to inflict violence upon her - she finds she can't get away and he strangles her.

And it's on CCTV, as clear as day to every single person who watches it. And yet, we still have the police and her bosses suggesting that this wasn't an act of pure violence?

Fuck this shit.

It's so disgusting. He strangled her. And the company is still employing him! I can't believe there wasn't a police case against him.

No charges and he kept his job. He strangled a colleague until she passed out and he received no sanctions. Then again, we live in a country where men can stab women in the neck and get away with it if they claim she liked rough sex

Molly's told the tribunal she had since learned that her facial paralysis is more permanent than first thought and she may never be able to smile again. She said she was told her injuries were “were either caused by lack of oxygen or nerve damage”.

The tribunal heard that Mr Webb was arrested over the incident but was released under investigation and remained employed by the Cameo Club after the incident.

From the article - so this is a man who has been captured on video causing permanent damage to a woman, who could have easily killed her in fact, and he's not faced any charges despite it happening over a year ago? Fucking hell.

Fucking men. Seriously, how do so many men think this is "banter"? What kind of a person does this to another human? And in plain sight too?

How is he not in jail? There is video evidence of what he did, FFS. I'm surprised the CCTV footage didn't mysteriously go missing.

Since the criminal justice system has been wholly ineffective here, I hope the civil courts hits the owners where it hurts (because they clearly couldn't care less either). I doubt the settlement from an employment tribunal is significant, but hopefully this now also gives her an avenue to pursue an injury claim against her former employers as well.

That poor woman; that feeling she talks of about being disposable to those men is such an awful feeling to have on top of something like that happening in the first place, no wonder she has PTSD, anxiety and depression.

I wonder what the two subsequent 'incidents' were which made her think he was violent to women? Video is horrible and what he did was obviously intentional.

Judge Frazer wrote: "She was able to carry on at work without suffering any real psychological effects, working alongside Mr Webb, until March.
"In March the Claimant observed two incidents that made her perceive the Christmas party incident in a different way.
"Rightly or wrongly, she formed the view from these incidents that he had the capacity to be violent towards women. This made her believe that she had been the victim of insidious violence at the hands of Mr Webb.

Rightly or wrongly? FFS. He deliberately strangled her until she passed out. I think we can safely say that's violence against women. It says he's been charged.

I hope those managers go down too.

Shocking, he needs to be prosecuted. 😡

The was a very unsavoury character I once knew - perpetrator of DV etc. He boasted of different techniques to use in fights/combat. I remember him discribing this technique in detail. How the blood goes into the brain in a pair of arteries and can be accessed in a particular area. You use your knuckle to press hard into it (I can't remember if it was the left or right side that worked better) and you can quickly make someone pass out by starving their brain of oxygen. He had been into prison many times and this is the kind of tip that gets passed around.

You can clearly see her tapping him earlier on to be released. What the FUCK did he think he was doing . Get him inside now. And the fucking managers. They are complicit.

JFC, that’s disturbing.

How is that not attempted murder?

And he just kind of throws her down on the floor when she goes unconscious. Like she’s just a plaything he’s done with.

Wtf?! That’s not a hug he’s blatantly strangling her - why in holy hell is he not in prison?!!

God that was an upsetting watch Seeing her arms go rigid and the sick bastard smiling just before he let her go. I can’t believe he isn’t facing criminal charges, it’s outrageous. Strangling and choking are great massive red flags that this disgusting creature will go on to really seriously hurt or kill a woman. Police can visit Glinner for nowt, yet this creep seems not even to have had a slap on the wrist. I keep thinking, is it really 2018? Because it doesn’t really feel like it. I feel like we’re on a one-way train to Gilead.

Saw this a few days ago. It’s not just the incident itself, it’s the fact that she didn’t know what had happened until she watched the CCTV back again and when she said this doesn’t look right, she was told to just get over it and she’s the one who ended up losing her job over it. Absolutely shocking. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.

fucking hell. and he laughs afterwards.

Jesus.

He was probably showing off doing it in front of the others. It wouldn't surprise me if he told them what he was going to do first - which is why they didn't help until she fell.

He laughs when he lets her go.

Why isn't he in prison?