Mother humiliated at Marks and Spencer checkout by cashier

A mother-of-two was asked by a Marks and Spencer worker why she had mutilated and disfigured herself by decorating her neck and arms with tattoos. 

Natasha Henson, 35, had told the cashier that a customer in the store tutted and commented about her tattoos.

But she did not get the understanding she expected when the woman replied that she was not surprised she had 'tutted' and branded her tattoos 'disgusting.'

Mrs Henson, whose husband is a tattoo artist, left the shop in Bournemouth in tears. 

She said: 'It was absolutely horrible. 

'It's my choice to have tattoos and I do not expect people to judge me for it.' 

Mrs Henson mentioned being tutted at by a customer to the cashier and got a response she described as 'upsetting and insulting'.

She said: The woman responded something like, "I am not surprised she tutted I think they are appalling! 

'Why on earth would you want to mutilate and disfigure yourself like that? 

'I don't want to see your tattoos they are disgusting."'

I then mentioned I had a tattoo shop and she said "It doesn't matter if you have a tattoo shop you don't see painters and decorators go out and cover themselves in paint."'

Mrs Henson said when the woman asked who did the tattoos and she said the majority were done by her husband. 

The woman responded: 'My husband would never hurt me like that.