Old offence / work
Notifications OFFStruggling a little at the moment my son landed himself a job ok just in a shop but he was happy. Anyway one day this week an old friend see him at work and decided to post on fb with the place he worked and the newspaper article he was prosecuted in 2021.
Today he obviously got the sack as there are many children around im not sure that this is a good enough reason as there is no restrictions on him but hey ho .. what im asking here is there a way to get his article removed without it costing over £3000 deleted from google / Facebook
Obviously we have reported it to the police but that won't really do anything
Please help
You can contact google for free and ask them to remove any links to the article under their right to be forgotten policy. But again, if the conviction is unspent, they may refuse to do this, citing public interest.
Hi Mum2son, I could have written your post myself, and my heart truly goes out to you and your son.
My own son also lost his job after someone took a screenshot of the media coverage of his case and sent it to his employer.
After finally plucking up the courage to return to a sport he loved he was told he couldn’t return when an old school ‘friend’ forwarded the same screenshot to the team manager.
I wish more than anything that the online articles could be taken down, and I still hope that one day they will be. I’ve contacted both the newspaper and the ombudsman in the past, but they refused to remove the stories, saying it was in the public interest for them to remain online.
I wish your son all the best and send you a big virtual hug as I know how painful these experiences are.