The brother in law of David Beckham was made to feel a failure in this high flying job in the city for not arranging meetings between his colleagues and his famous relative, a tribunal was told yesterday. 32 year old broker Darren Flood, who is the husband of Victoria Beckham’s sister Louise also suffered racist taunts as his grandfather came from India.
Mr. Flood is claiming constructive dismissal as he says he felt that he was forced to resign from his £50,000 a year job and that he suffered verbal abuse from the boss of the broking firm he worked for, London based BGC International. He is also alleging that BGC, which is located in Canary Wharf, carried out trades that were morally unacceptable and there was both heavy drinking and a strong drug culture within the firm.
Mr Flood, from Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire, says that he was also routinely asked to set up meetings with the Beckhams for clients in Los Angeles and Milan, and was made to feel very inadequate when he didn’t. He says that he felt unhappy about bringing his private life into the workplace and has never exploited his relationship to the Beckhams. He added that his stock answer was to see what he could do but never did.
. He said that his boss, Tony Herbert, was an incessant bully who repeatedly called him a ****. He also alleges that a senior manager at BCG who was wreaking of alcohol also confronted him and told him he had better make sure that David Beckham came to their offices. The hearing, being held in East London, is continuing.