Tempers flared at a petrol station in Littlehampton in Sussex recently as staff tried to get a customer to leave the business during the ongoing fuel shortages and panic buying.

Footage captured by 27-year-old van driver Nino Vydeenaden on September 24 shows a staff member from the Cuff Miller Esso station threatening the man with violence, using expletives and making an insulting comment about his weight.

According to Vydeenaden, he was asked to leave for commenting on the panic buying he was witnessing at the petrol station.

"Threatened with violence and police by staff at Cuff Miller for expressing my opinion on this nonsense and commenting that people should get a grip after witnessing somebody fill their tank up so frantically that it was overflowing and fuel was pouring over the forecourt," he said.

James Baxter, the staff member seen swearing in Vydeenaden's video, later released a statement in which he apologised for his language but also set out the context for his flare-up which, he claims, began long before Vydeenaden started filming.

Baxter claims that Vydeenaden "entered the premises filming other customers filling their vehicles, proclaiming them ‘vultures’ ‘sheep’ and ‘stupid imbeciles’."

Baxter claims his staff repeatedly asked Vydeenaden politely to leave the business and he then started to abuse the employees.

It was at this point that Baxter claims he lost his temper.

"I am not excusing my actions, but when I feel that my friends are being threatened I become naturally upset," Baxter said.

Nino Vydeenaden, a 27 year old van driver from Littlehampton - Sussex, filmed this video on Facebook Friday the 24th September, he said he was "being threatened with violence and police by staff at Cuff Miller for expressing my opinion on this nonsense and commenting that people should get a grip after witnessing somebody fill their tank up so frantically that it was overflowing and fuel was pouring over the forecourt and they weren't stopping and had to be physically stopped by a member of staff!"


"Because of this comment I am now banned for life apparently. Leading up to this video the member of staff with blonde hair told me to "P*ss off and disappear" through my car window after I told him to calm down and stop getting so excited, it's only a petrol station."


"I had started to drive off until I saw him take a picture of my car which he refused to delete when I got out and asked him. Almost immediately the senior member of staff came over and was swearing repeatedly at me after hearing a brief few comments from his colleague about what I had said, so then I got my phone out ... before I stopped recording you can hear him say to a colleague 'can you get the lads' a bunch of mechanics came out the workshop who were about 60 and I was threatened that they would 'have a little chat with me'..they can take pictures of my car, make comments about my weight and threaten me, but they didn't like me getting my phone out and videoing them, and the boss has incriminated himself...after repeatedly telling me to leave, he tried to block me on the forecourt to get his pensioner mechanics on me... bunch of w*nkers"
I couldn't agree more!


As of filming this video, Curr miller have put out a formal statement.