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'It made me feel so small' says man turned away from hotel for being homeless
A man has told Sky News how small he was made to feel when a hotel refused to let him in on a freezing cold night because he was homeless.
Callum Donaghey, 30, was one of two homeless men who a charity had booked into a Manchester Holiday Inn so they could escape sub zero temperatures. But a member of staff at the hotel refused to check the pair in, even though their bookings were paid for, because they were homeless, in an incident caught on camera.
"It made me feel so small, because we're homeless. [It] made me feel a bit categorised.
Gutted," Mr Donaghey tells Sky News. In the video, the staff member says: "It's not a personal thing".
"We know people. I've been doing the door for a long while.
It's the company's policy. It's not mine personally, it's the company's." Hearing that was like a "kick in the stomach really.
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