Scots OAP 'blown into air by electric shock from supermarket's sliding doors'

22.05.2022 - 07:55 / dailyrecord.co.uk

A pensioner claims she was thrown into the air by an electric shock from a supermarket’s sliding doors.

Phyllis French, 83, was rushed to hospital with burn marks on one leg, and bruises and cuts, after the incident at an M&S Foodhall.

But her family said they have been left angry by the retail giant claiming the doors at the store in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, were not faulty and Phyllis must have fallen.

Phyllis said: “I felt something at my foot– it was a strange feeling that went right up my leg.

"Next I was lifted off my feet and thrown back out of the doors on to the ground.

“Two men ran up to help. They kept asking me what had happened and I didn’t know.

“At hospital the doctor said there was a burn on my leg. I was cut and bruised from the fall. I’m still having problems with my ankle and shoulder.”

Phyllis, who had been dropped off by her daughter Audrey, had been waiting inside thestore to be given a trolley by a staff member.

Audrey saw the incident from the car park.

She said: “It was as if someone had picked mum up and thrown her outside. At first I thought she was dead. The force of it could have killed a child or someone with a heart condition.”

Audrey, a healthcare professional, said staff at the scene admitted there had been issues with the electric doors but M&S later denied that was the case.

Audrey, 59, from Bothwell, said: “We have been made to feel disrespected. The company painted us as individuals who have falsified information and embellished truths.”

The family are now considering legal action against M&S, which has been unable to find CCTV of the incident in July 2020.

Phyllis, who has had two hip replacements, decided to speak out after a letter arrived last week from M&S’s lawyers which insisted there

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