Despicable, and surely culpable of murder or manslaughter if the **** is found....
UK rail worker dies of coronavirus after being spat at while on duty
Family of Belly Mujinga, a ticket officer in London, voice concerns over lack of PPE
The family and friends of a railway ticket office worker who died of coronavirus after being spat at while on duty say the incident raises serious questions for her employer.
Belly Mujinga, 47, was working on the concourse of Victoria station in south-west
London on the morning of 22 March when a man who said he had Covid-19 spat and coughed at her and a colleague. Within days of the assault, both women fell ill with the virus.
Mujinga, the mother of an 11-year-old girl, Ingrid, was admitted to Barnet hospital and put on a ventilator but died on 5 April. Her cousin Agnes and a colleague who witnessed the incident said Mujinga had pleaded against working outside the protection of the ticket office without PPE.
They alleged her employers, Govia Thameslink, knew she had respiratory problems but still insisted she work on the concourse and interact with passengers. They claimed she was also sent back to work on the concourse after the spitting incident despite physically shaking with the trauma of what had happened.
A colleague who witnessed the incident said: “We begged not to go out. We said ‘our lives are in danger’.”
But she said they were told they had to go out.
“We were told that we are not even allowed to put on masks,” the colleague added. “Govia has behaved reckless and negligent. They have failed in their duty of care. We are treated like we are robots.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/12/uk-rail-worker-dies-coronavirus-spat-belly-mujinga