City model wins apology from phone company.A PHONE company being sued by Liverpool model Danielle Lloyd has apologised and sacked its shamed employee. The former Miss England The Miss England competition is an annual beauty pageant targeted at young females aged 17-24 years living in England. Entrants must hold a British passport to enter. , from Aigburth, is suing Carphone Warehouse and employee Deepak Jagpal. Mr Jagpal allegedly tried to sell sexually explicit photos taken from the model's mobile phone to national newspapers. He is accused of taking copies of the pictures, including intimate surgery shots, when the model bought a new mobile. She was told to leave her old phone so all the data could be transferred, and collect it later the same day. A spokesman for the company said: "The download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. of customer content is entirely unacceptable and we can confirm that this content was not published. "When the matter was brought to our attention, we immediately conducted an investigation and the employee is no longer working within the business. "Their actions are not indicative of our usual standard of service and we absolutely apologise v. 1. same as apologize. Verb 1. apologise - defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success" to Ms Lloyd." The former St Hilda's pupil lodged a High Court writ seeking damages of up to pounds 50,000 from the company, which she said had refused to apologise. CAPTION(S): Danielle Lloyd - has issued a High Court writ against Carphone Warehouse |
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