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A worker has sued because his BBC Doctor Who-loving boss had a Dalek mug in the office that said "exterminate." Joshua Aderemi claimed he was "targeted" by Alan Wordsworth because he "deliberately" put his mug on the table during a meeting.

The mug said: "You may think I am listening but in my head I am thinking of exterminating someone." A tribunal heard Mr Wordsworth is a Doctor Who fan and was gifted the mug to drink tea and coffee out of it at work, it was heard.

Mr Aderemi, a support worker, lost all his claims at Sheffield Employment Tribunal. The tribunal heard: "We find that the mug was on the table during the meeting on June 28, but it had not been placed there deliberately, and the wording on the mug was not targeted at [Mr Aderemi].

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