posted by: Vahishta Mistry Jun 26 2009 @ 12:27 pm

Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has been accused of “hiding” a sales assistant in a stockroom at a London outlet because her prosthetic arm didn’t fit with its “look policy”, a tribunal has heard.

Riam Dean, a 22-year-old law student from Greenford, west London, claims she was removed from the shop floor at the company’s Savile Row branch when management became aware of her disability.

Dean, who was born without her left forearm and has worn a prosthetic limb since she was three months old, is suing for disability discrimination after she was left “personally diminished [and] humiliated” when she refused to remove her cardigan at work last summer.