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Watch shocking video as Asda worker runs amok in store
Preston's Asda supermarket fell victim to a wave of crime and sabotage - carried out by one of its own employees.
Adeel Ayub, who worked at Asda in Fulwood between 2005 and 2008, is seen slashing colleagues' clothes, wrecking a staff room and playing filthy pranks with food products.
In much of the film, he is sporting the supermarket's distinctive green uniform as he wreaks havoc in the aisles, smashing up stock. He then returns to the store in 2009 dressed in a hoodie – after he has left Asda's employment – where he is seen licking and stamping on raw chickens before putting them back on the shelf.
The mobile phone footage is thought to have been filmed by an Asda colleague over a series of night-time shifts.
The spree includes setting off fire extinguishers and slashing furniture in the staffroom, which led to it being closed and a 50 reward offered for information.
He is heard referring to the film as a "top secret video" that is "never going to get released".
In increasingly vulgar footage he pokes his fingers into, stands on and licks raw chickens, urinates in a bin in the gents toilets which he kicks over, and plays "Asda cricket" with food produce.
The vandal also breaks trophies awarded to the store, hurls boxes of eggs around the warehouse, and plays "Asda football" with boxes of stock.
The footage obtained by the Evening Post begins with Ayub in his Asda uniform in the staff section of the superstore releasing a fire extinguisher.
As firefighters are filmed attending the call out he is heard to boast: "I think this baby is my last video because if I get caught I'll probably get sacked."
Lancashire Fire and Rescue service, which confirmed it received two false alarm calls to the store in 2008, today condemned the footage.
Spokesman John Taylor said: "We deplore this behaviour. Hoax calls take up firefighters' time and setting off an alarm system takes crews away from genuine emergencies. It's a criminal activity."
The Lancashire Evening Post has passed on the damning footage to Asda.
The supermarket giant, owned by Walmart, confirmed the employee – who names himself on the video – had worked at the store on a permanent contract from August 2005 to April 2007, when he became a seasonal worker up until September 2008.
A spokesman said: "We are absolutely disgusted and appalled by the behaviour of this man. Despite leaving our business three years ago, now we have video evidence of criminal damage we are taking this matter up with the police."
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