Kerry-Ann Knight hoped to pave way for Black women but was instead subjected to 12 years of abuse
has received a settlement and an apology after taking it to an employment tribunal over the racist and sexist abuse she was subjected to during her career.
Knight joined 26 Regiment Royal Artillery after enlisting at the age of 20 following training, and was posted to Germany.“I had to serve alongside people that claimed to support the KKK, Britain First and/or the English Defence League,” she said in her witness statement provided to the tribunal. She said male soldiers would call her a “black bitch” but say: “I’d still shag you though.”
“There was a lot of sexism,. However, when you put race into play, as well, for me, it just felt like it was multiplied by 10.” She heard colleagues talking about her “getting lynched” and being “tarred and feathered”. One said he would put her in a “hot box” – a reference to a scene in the film Django Unchained in which a black female slave is tortured by being locked inside a wooden coffin-type box.
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