McDonald’s served food to the public that should have been condemned as unfit, an employment tribunal heard.

The revelation came as a tribunal ruled that former manager Jasmine Trueman was unfairly dismissed and sexually discriminated against.

Miss Trueman, 25, who was pregnant at the time of the events examined by the tribunal was awarded £44,905 in compensation, including costs.

The tribunal heard evidence of a pattern of behaviour that ’smacked of gross misconduct in relation to disregard of food hygiene’.

It noted: ’The purpose of the tribunal hearing was not to question McDonald’s food safety standards but the evidence about food or other product that should have been discarded in April 2017 is a pivotal element of the financial claim Miss Trueman is making.

’Such was the severity of the problems in this period with the freezer situation that food offered to the public should have been discarded.’

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