TWO MAINTENANCE workers at the “squalid” Liverpool Prison who were sacked for raising safety concerns were unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has ruled.

John Bromilow and Harry Wildman, who had each worked at the jail for more than two decades, were fired by outsourcing company Amey after telling the prison governor about plans to get staff to carry out maintenance jobs alone instead of in pairs.

Painter-decorator Mr Bromilow, 66, told the BBC that the proposed changes were a safety risk as tools could be taken by prisoners.