Horsewoman ejected from supermarket for being too smelly

Krys Gunton, 29, was intercepted by security staff as she shopped at Tesco Metro in Collier Row, Romford, Essex, after a riding session at the town's Havering Park Riding School. As she strolled down the aisles in her jodhpurs and riding boots, she was approached by a security guard and asked to leave "for health and safety reasons".

Miss Gunton, an administrator at the University of East London, said: "I had filled my basket and was browsing one final aisle when a guard came up to me and said 'You're smelling too much.' "First of all I thought he said I was smiling too much. I was a bit gobsmacked but he went on to explain that another customer had complained about my smell."

She said she had been visiting the store after riding every week for the past five years and had never had any complaints before about her equine odour. "It was not like I was covered in horse muck - it was just eau de horse!" she said.



Miss Gunton said she asked the guard what he suggested she should do and said she was instructed to go home and change before continuing her shopping. When I said I did not have any spare clothes in my car he just kept repeating that a customer had complained about me," she said.

"The store was very busy so I felt humiliated in public. I was astounded at how very rude he was." Miss Gunton, of nearby Chadwell Heath, said she had no choice but to abandon her almost full basket and leave the store.

A Tesco spokesperson said: “The customer was asked politely to leave the store as she had manure on her riding boots which is of course not acceptable in a store which sells food.”