A Sports Direct worker gave birth in a warehouse toilet ‘because she was afraid of missing her shift’, a witness has claimed. The unnamed woman gave birth in a cubicle at the company’s Shirebrook warehouse complex in Derbyshire on New Year’s Day 2014. A former security worker who was at the scene said the mother cut the umbilical cord herself with a box cutter. The worker, said to be from Eastern Europe, told her colleagues that “she had to go back to work” within minutes of delivering her baby. A witness said the newborn was struggling to survive and was placed in a bucket in the next cubicle. The woman was covered in blood by the time the alarm was raised and emergency services were called, the Daily Mail reports. Marguerite Severn was a former security team leader and worked at Sports Direct until 2015. She was one of the first at the scene and said she found the woman on her “evening shift, at around 8pm or 8.30pm”. Speaking for the first time about the incredible incident, she said: “The girl was in a cubicle. She had her jeans on but there was blood all over the floor. “We… Read full this story
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