KNUTSFORD MARKET TRADER SPEAKS OUT AFTER ACCUSED OF WATCHING PORN
A witness has come forward to discuss the alleged ‘inappropriate’ behaviour of a Knutsford Market trader.Greengrocer Jonty Page was forced to leave his fruit and veg stall last week after losing an appeal against the revocation of his license.
The 63-year-old strongly refutes the accusations made against him by Knutsford Town Council.
However, a stallholder named Nicky Facey, who operates Nyx Cat Crystals in the market, stated: “I saw Jonty and a male companion watching porn.
The two of them were sat at the café table nearest his stall.
The laptop did have porn playing on it as I witnessed it personally.
I told them: ‘you can’t do that here, it’s inappropriate’.
I got laughed at as I walked away and then I could hear the audio coming from what they were watching.
“It was shocking and very unprofessional.
This occurred on a Saturday when a child could have witnessed what was going on in a public place.” Nicky also claims to have been subjected to ‘humiliating and chauvinistic’ behaviour by Jonty.
Jonty asserts he did not watch any ‘porn’, claiming a customer showing him how to buy cryptocurrency clicked on a sex website as a ‘schoolboy joke’.
He said: “It was stupidity.
I’ve had the laptop history printed off by IT experts and it lasted for 21 seconds.
I am sticking to the truth.
I have never watched porn.
I know hand on heart I’ve done nothing wrong.
I was the busiest stall and had 250 customers a week.
They’re all absolutely gutted that I’ve gone.” A Knutsford Town Council spokesperson stated: “Whilst we do not feel it is appropriate for the town council to debate this matter publicly and rebut each of Mr Page’s statements, we wish to reaffirm that the town council was presented with sufficient first-hand evidence for the allegations.
We have a fundamentally different knowledge of the events to that presented by Mr Page.
The town centre committee which considered the appeal did not feel the evidence presented at the hearing by Mr Page refuted the allegations.”
