• Privacy policy
  • T&C’s
  • About Us
    • FAQ
    • Meet the Team
  • Contact us
TLE ONLINE SHOP!
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
SUPPORT THE LONDON ECONOMIC
NEWSLETTER
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
No Result
View All Result
Home Must Reads Broken Britain

Model & campaigner was humiliated when his colostomy bag leaked & staff at conference centre REFUSED to let him use the toilet

A model and campaigner was humiliated when his colostomy bag leaked – and staff at a conference centre REFUSED to let him use the toilet. Bodybuilder Blake Beckford, 36, has ulcerative colitis and three years ago was fitted with a stoma bag on the outside of his body to collect his body waste. The father-of-three […]

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2018-01-14 15:15
in Broken Britain, Must Reads
FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailWhatsapp

A model and campaigner was humiliated when his colostomy bag leaked – and staff at a conference centre REFUSED to let him use the toilet.

Bodybuilder Blake Beckford, 36, has ulcerative colitis and three years ago was fitted with a stoma bag on the outside of his body to collect his body waste.

The father-of-three was caught short on the way to a meeting when his bag started to leak while he was walking past the Manchester Central Convention Complex.

He nipped in and explained to the receptionist he had a “medical condition” and desperately needed to use the bathroom.

But the unsympathetic receptionist told him the loos “weren’t for the general public” – even when he gave a red-faced explanation behind his urgency, he claims.

Humiliated Blake, from Leamington, was forced him to make a dash for the nearest restaurant where he was ushered into the loos.

Blake, who campaigns to increase awareness of ‘invisible disabilities’, said: “I may have a condition not seen by other eyes, but surely it’s common decency to allow me to use the toilet.

RelatedPosts

Swimmer bitten by shark off coast of Britain – first time in 175 years

Binman told he couldn’t wear shorts on ‘health and safety’ grounds completed his rounds – in hi vis KILT

Disabled pensioner hijacks digger to protest actions of his local council – ‘Somebody has got to make a stand’

NHS workers had letters from bailiffs after refusing to pay parking fine when they were tending to dying Covid patient

“I was appalled that they turned me away forcing me to panic in a place I am not familiar with to find the nearest toilet.

“I could of been left humiliated in the street should my bag have fully leaked.

“It’s disgusting. It really does show the lack of knowledge of an invisible disability.”

Blake was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2003 just as he was preparing to compete in a bodybuilding competition.

The painful condition causes inflammation and ulceration of the inner lining of the rectum and colon, triggering symptoms such as diarrhoea and stomach cramps.

Model Blake Beckford told how he was humiliated when his colostomy bag leaked – and staff at a conference centre REFUSED to let him use the toilet. 

A flare up at the end of 2012 left him constantly fatigued and needing to go to toilet up to 20 times a day.

He underwent an ileostomy in 2013 – where the small intestine is diverted through an opening in the abdomen – and was fitted with a stoma bag.

Brave Blake fought back to health and came first in the male transformation category at the Pure Elite bodybuilding event in 2014, posing on stage showing his stoma.

He was on his way to filming with a sports motivation brand, when he realised the adhesive on his stoma bag had come loose.

“I headed to the nearest loos to avoid having faeces all down my trousers,” he said.

“I would have absolutely died.

“I just wanted to use a bathroom to sort it out. It’s a basic human need.

“I said to the receptionist ‘I have a medical condition, please may I use your bathroom’.

“But she said ‘we don’t allow the public to use our toilet’.

“I felt not only anxious because I was aware that there was potential it was going to go everywhere, but simply humiliated.

“I has to explain why I needed the toilet – and she still said no.

“I was left feeling very humiliated.

“I would like to make more people aware of invisible disabilities.

“Not all disabilities mean you have to be in a wheelchair.”

Manchester Central apologised to Blake.

A spokesman said: “We were extremely disappointed to hear about Mr Beckford’s experience and apologised to him as soon as we became aware of what had happened.

“We pride ourselves on offering the warmest of welcomes to all our visitors and, as a busy events venue in the centre of Manchester, we are committed to being as open and accessible as possible.

“We will continue to work with our teams to ensure that a situation such as this does not happen again.”

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/must-reads/police-officer-hailed-hero-sacked-spot-sharing-racist-posts-facebook-including-one-describing-gypsies-f-scumbags/09/01/

Subscribe to our Newsletter

View our  Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

Trending on TLE

  • All
  • trending
Abdollah

‘Rescue us’: Afghan teacher begs UK to help him escape Taliban

CHOMSKY: “If Corbyn had been elected, Britain would be pursuing a much more sane course”

What If We Got Rid Of Prisons?

More from TLE

Spotting Supercars in the Capital

Priti Patel blames Labour for law that meant release of ‘dangerous terrorists’

Greta Thunberg tweeted about coronavirus & trolls replied with horrific abuse

Dodging the Covid Kiss

“Sick” animal abuser jailed for “horrific and abhorrent” cockfighting

NONSCIENCE RETURNS

Restaurant review: STK, The Strand

‘Your move, spies’: Reaction as government plans to put all foreign agents on a register

An open application for the role of Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

Powerful rebuttal as Shilton said Johnson deserves break after ‘fighting more battles’ than any PM

JOBS

FIND MORE JOBS

About Us

TheLondonEconomic.com – Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle.

Read more

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Travel
  • JOBS
  • More…
    • Elevenses
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Tech & Auto
  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Privacy policy
  • Contact us

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.