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Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'

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Oliver Bromley has a genetic condition that causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on nerves.

Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'

A man with a facial disfigurement says he was asked to leave a restaurant in south London because staff said he was "scaring the customers".

Oliver Bromley has Neurofibromatosis Type 1, a genetic condition that causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on his nerves.

Speaking to the BBC, he said when he had gone to place an order at a restaurant in Camberwell, staff told him there had been complaints about him.

"It's a horrible thing to happen. I took it very personally on the day," he said.

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