A MUM claims she was manhandled and insulted by a Tesco security guard who wrongly assumed she was a shoplifter.

Jill Thorpe, 41, was thrown out of Tesco at Viaduct Street, Huddersfield, after being confused with a thief who is banned from the town centre store.

But all the supermarket giant – which made £3.2bn profits in the financial year ending last April – offered in compensation was a £20 Tesco shopping card and a bunch of flowers.

The Quarmby mother-of-two says she was called a “stupid young woman” as she was dragged out of the super-market in front of her friends.

“I felt shown-up and angry with the way I was treated,” she said.

“You can’t behave like that – it’s disgusting.”

Mrs Thorpe, of Holly Field Avenue, visited the Viaduct Street store three times a week.

But she was confronted by a male security guard while going to the till one evening.

She said: “He mentioned something about red chillies with the inference being that I had stolen them.

“I had certainly taken some red chillies, but I put them in my basket, ready to be paid for at the checkout.

“The security guard then said that I was banned from the store and I told him that I was not barred.

“He moved behind me, grabbed me by the shoulders and forcibly pushed me towards the door in full view of numerous customers and staff.

“He called me a ‘stupid young woman’.

“I was manhandled from the store and my shopping taken from me.”