AN epileptic man claims he is being discriminated against by supermarket security – and that the “humiliating” encounters are giving him fits.

Geoff Jones, 54, has complained three times to the Aldi store at Stretford Mall about being stopped by security in the past five months.

On all three occasions, Geoff was issued with an apology letter from management and told it wouldn’t happen again – but he says security continued to “harass” him.

On two of the occasions, Geoff said he was had been falsely accused of shoplifting and in the third incident, he was quizzed by a security guard off the premises.

He said: “How many people go into that store – 500 people a morning surely. And out of that, how many get stopped? Why is it that I am stopped? They see me paying so why play games?

“I don’t go in there much because I feel intimidated so saying it is random checks isn’t right. If they saw something on CCTV that would be different.

“I always get receipts but even when I showed these they wanted to see in the bags. I am being victimised and it is not helping my health.

“After the first time, I had a seizure when I got home, I was so stressed out and worked up.”

Back in September, we reported that Geoff had been threatened with a ban from Stretford Mall after being accused of harassment for “staring”.

After the death of his mother, Geoff, who lives alone with his dog, who is also epileptic, started making almost daily trips to nearby Stretford Mall, as he can’t drive or use public transport because of his condition.

He said the visits were his way of beating social isolation.

But a 10 minute max stay was placed on Geoff after complaints were made against him for “staring” into shops. He was told that if another complaint was made, he would be banned.

After a battle to clear his name, Geoff was told by management that restrictions were lifted and that he could move freely in the mall.

But Geoff thinks that this has led to his “unfair” treatment in Aldi.

In one incident, Geoff was approached by an Aldi security guard when he was paying for shopping at a different store.

“He said to me, “Why do you stand outside Aldi, it’s weird”,” said Geoff. “I don’t stand on Aldi property so he had no right to show me up in front of customers like that. It was embarrassing.

“It is going on and on and has got to come to an end.”

An Aldi spokesperson said: “We were sorry to hear about Mr Jones’ experience. We’ve reminded the company that provide security at our Stretford store of the procedures we expect guards to follow.”