A lesbian couple who faced humiliating sexual discrimination has been awarded £22,000.

The couple, Beth Moules and Sharleen Amos, complained after being told there relationship was “disgusting” by colleague Peter Thoburn reports The Daily Mail. Their boss, Stephen Baker-Joy responded to the complaint saying: "Lesbians never had and never would suffer in the way that Jews had".

After making the complaint Amos was dismissed and Moules then resigned and claimed constructive dismissal. The couple were awarded £22,000 jointly for unfair dismissal and for injury to feelings for discriminating against them on the ground of their sexual orientation.

A tribunal in Bristol said: "Thoburn described the claimants' conduct as 'disgusting', an epithet which, we concluded, he would not have applied to persons who were not homosexual, and in that sense it was less favourable treatment."