Little Jack Fuller's Closure: The Workers Left Behind, the Estate, and £10,529.88 Owed
Little Jack Fuller's on Google Maps, permanently closed after more than a century of fish on the same Kemptown corner
ImJustBrighton Exclusive Investigation
£10,529.88.
Earned. Documented.
Not paid.
Two general managers ran one of Kemptown's most-loved fish and chip shops for two and a half years. They found out their jobs were gone by forwarded WhatsApp message. This is the full story: the family estate, the missed rent, and the silence that followed.
Reported by
Tim Graichi Cucarella
ImJustBrighton
Published
26 September 2026
Brighton, East Sussex
Sources
36-question on-record interview
plus Companies House and private background documents
The only explanation customers were given, a notice referring to the Executors of the Estate
Investigation | Kemptown | Employment
On a morning in September 2026, Tamas and Boglarka turned up to open Little Jack Fuller's fish and chip shop on St James's Street as they had done every working day for two and a half years. Except this time, the locks had been changed. They were not getting in. And no one from the company had warned them it was coming.
What followed is a story about a family estate, a missed rent deadline, a director who ended his staff's employment by forwarded WhatsApp message, and two people now fighting through ACAS for a combined £10,529.88 in statutory pay they are legally owed and have never received.
This is an exclusive ImJustBrighton investigation. Tim Graichi Cucarella conducted a full on-the-record interview with Tamas (known as Tomi) and Boglarka (known as Bogi), covering 36 detailed questions. All facts reported here are sourced directly from that interview or from documents provided to ImJustBrighton as private background verification at the request of the subjects. Companies House records have been independently verified. The notice on the door of the premises was photographed by ImJustBrighton. No other outlet has reported the details you are about to read.
A fish shop on this corner since 1923. Gone in a WhatsApp message.
The building at 102 St James's Street has served Brighton as a fish shop, in one form or another, since 1923. James Blackman set up there that year. Frederick Gunn, fishmonger, took over in 1936 and stayed for 45 years. After him it became The Daily Catch. Then Jack Fuller's. Then Little Jack Fuller's. More than a century of fish on the same Kemptown corner, in a Grade II listed Regency building that has watched the whole neighbourhood change around it.
The company behind the latest chapter, Jack Fullers Traditional Fish and Chips Ltd, was incorporated on 13 May 2024 at Companies House under company number 15717946. Its sole director is Glenn Fuller, born September 1967, whose registered correspondence address is listed as 36 Brigden Street, Brighton, BN1 5DP. His identity has been verified by Track Accountancy Ltd, an authorised corporate service provider supervised by HMRC. The company's registered office is listed at Track Accountancy, 2 New Rents, Ashford, Kent. ImJustBrighton has independently confirmed these details via Companies House.
They ran the shop. All of it.
Tomi and Bogi were not waitstaff or counter workers. They were Shop Managers and General Managers of Little Jack Fullers Ltd, the company registered behind the name on the front of 102 St James's Street. For two and a half years under this ownership, they ran the entire operation: opening and closing daily, managing staff schedules, ordering stock, handling cash, maintaining quality and serving the Kemptown community that came through the door. Glenn Fuller was rarely present. Day-to-day management was left entirely in their hands on-site.
They held official contracts of employment. They received official payslips. One part-time member of staff also worked at the shop; that person is not owed any outstanding money. The financial exposure sits entirely with Tomi and Bogi.
The shop was, by any measure, well-loved. A 4.6-star Google rating across 730 reviews does not happen by accident. The vegan menu set it apart from every other chippy in the city: jackfruit scampi, cauliflower wings, a No Fish range that drew customers who had never set foot in a fish and chip shop before. Tomi and Bogi did not create those dishes from scratch but they refined and adapted the recipes themselves, making sure the food reaching customers was always the best it could be. The regulars knew them by name. That was the shop.
How it unravelled
13 MAY 2024
Jack Fullers Traditional Fish and Chips Ltd incorporated
Glenn Fuller registered as sole director at Companies House. Company number 15717946.
2024 ONWARDS
Tomi and Bogi run the shop daily
Two and a half years as General Managers. No warning signs. No late payments. No problems.
21 SEPTEMBER 2026
Termination deadline from the estate
The Executors of the Estate of David Fuller formally terminate the tenancy at 102 St James's Street for non-payment of £1,375/month rent. Locks changed. Glenn Fuller locked out.
SEPTEMBER 2026
Staff told by forwarded WhatsApp message
Glenn Fuller forwards a message to Tomi and Bogi: the business is no longer financially viable, their positions are redundant, the company cannot meet its financial liabilities.
DAYS LATER
P45s issued. £10,529.88 documented. Nothing paid.
Official final payslips confirm £5,264.94 owed to Tomi and £5,264.94 owed to Bogi. P45s received. Company goes silent.
26 SEPTEMBER 2026
ACAS early conciliation filed. Investigation published.
Tomi files R283302/26. Bogi files R283305/26. Tomi and Bogi contact ImJustBrighton. Full investigation conducted and published same day. No response from the company or estate.
Tamas and Boglarka ran Little Jack Fuller's for two and a half years and are now pursuing ACAS claims for £10,529.88 in unpaid statutory pay
A forwarded message. A dead man's estate. And locks that had already been changed.
There were no signs. In the weeks before the closure, nothing was unusual: no late wage payments, no supplier problems, no unfamiliar faces turning up, no legal letters left on the counter, no reduced hours. Little Jack Fuller's traded normally right up until the moment it did not.
The way Tomi and Bogi found out their jobs were gone was through a forwarded WhatsApp message from the director, Glenn Fuller. The message said the business was no longer financially viable, that their positions were being made redundant, and that the company was unable to meet its financial liabilities. A forwarded message. No meeting, no phone call, no letter, no visit to the shop. A forwarded message.
Customers who walked past and saw the notice taped to the door were told only that the business was closed and that the property was now under the care and control of the Executors of the Estate. Most people who read that had no idea whose estate it referred to. Tomi and Bogi did, because Glenn Fuller had told them directly.
ImJustBrighton can now name that estate for the first time. The property at 102 St James's Street was connected to the estate of Glenn Fuller's late father, David Fuller. Glenn's sisters are acting as executors of David Fuller's will. According to what Glenn told his own staff, those sisters changed the locks on the premises. Glenn Fuller no longer had access to the building that bore his family name.
ImJustBrighton has seen, as private background verification, the formal termination notice sent from the Executors of the Estate of David Fuller to Glenn Fuller. That notice terminated the tenancy at 102 St James's Street on grounds of non-payment of rent. The monthly rent was £1,375. The deadline given was 21 September 2026.
The stock, the fryers, the equipment: all of it remains locked inside the premises. Tomi and Bogi retrieved their immediate personal belongings. That is all they got out. Since the closure, no one from the estate, no solicitor, and no representative of Little Jack Fullers Ltd or Jack Fullers Traditional Fish and Chips Limited has made contact with them to address what they are owed.
Who controls what and why it matters
The building: Estate of David Fuller
Glenn Fuller's late father owned or held the lease on 102 St James's Street. When he died, his estate passed to his daughters Glenn's sisters who are acting as executors of his will. They control the physical premises. They issued the termination notice. They changed the locks.
The company: Jack Fullers Traditional Fish and Chips Ltd
The legal employer of Tomi and Bogi. Sole director: Glenn Fuller. Incorporated May 2024. This is the entity that owes £10,529.88 in statutory pay. It has not responded to ACAS. Its registered office is an accountancy firm in Ashford, Kent not Brighton.
The workers: Tomi and Bogi
Employed by the company, locked out by the estate. Owed money by an entity that says it cannot pay. Pursuing every legal avenue available to them while looking for new work in Brighton.
The estate controls the building but did not employ Tomi and Bogi. The company employed them but claims it cannot pay. The gap between those two facts is where Tomi and Bogi are currently trapped.
"We put our hearts into running the shop every day during our 2.5 years under this ownership, building relationships with local regulars and turning it into a welcoming place for the Brighton community. There were no unusual signs at all right up until the final moments."
Tamas (Tomi) and Boglarka (Bogi), former General Managers, Little Jack Fuller's
£10,529.88. Documented. Unpaid. And a legal clock now ticking.
Tomi is owed £5,264.94 in statutory notice pay and redundancy pay. Bogi is owed £5,264.94 in statutory notice pay and redundancy pay. That is £10,529.88 in total, owed to two people who received their P45s two days before they felt they had no choice but to go to ACAS, because no one from the company was picking up the phone to tell them who was going to pay.
What they are owed
TAMAS (TOMI)
£5,264.94
Statutory notice pay and redundancy pay. Documented on official final payslip. Unpaid.
ACAS ref: R283302/26
BOGLARKA (BOGI)
£5,264.94
Statutory notice pay and redundancy pay. Documented on official final payslip. Unpaid.
ACAS ref: R283305/26
Combined total owed: £10,529.88 calculated by the company, printed on official payslips, and not paid. Next step: Employment Tribunal if ACAS fails.
Both figures are fully documented on their official final payslips. These are not disputed amounts, not estimates, not approximations. They are the statutory entitlements calculated by the company itself and printed on official documents. The company has simply not paid them.
On the day ImJustBrighton interviewed them, Tomi and Bogi had initiated ACAS early conciliation. Tami's reference number is R283302/26. Bogi's is R283305/26. The company has not responded to either case.
If conciliation fails, they will go to an Employment Tribunal to recover what UK law says they are entitled to. They are also exploring the government Redundancy Payments Service and all routes through the Insolvency Service, depending on the outcome of the ACAS process.
The reaction from Kemptown when the closure was first announced was extraordinary. MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle and local politician Nancy Platts both responded publicly. The community's grief was immediate and genuine. But grief and statutory pay are different things, and as of publication, nothing has arrived in Tomi and Bogi's accounts.
Why this goes beyond Brighton
Tomi and Bogi's situation is not unique to Kemptown. Across the UK, thousands of workers are left without statutory redundancy and notice pay every year when small businesses collapse, because the legal obligation sits with a company that has already run out of money. The government's Redundancy Payments Service exists precisely for this reason but only kicks in once a company is formally declared insolvent, leaving workers in limbo while ACAS and tribunal processes grind forward.
500 yrs
Average gap between minimum wage inspections for a UK business, per a government report
Bottom 5
UK ranks among the fewest labour inspectors per worker of any major economy, per the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
£10,529
Owed to two Brighton workers who did everything right and are now waiting for the law to catch up
The Employment Rights Act 2025 introduced stronger day-one protections for UK workers. Whether those protections reach people like Tomi and Bogi in practice is a different question entirely and one that Brighton's own story puts in sharp focus.
"It has been very stressful being left abruptly without our statutory pay and income, but we are staying focused on securing new work and resolving our ACAS claims. All we want is for our statutory rights and owed payouts of £5,264.94 each, totalling £10,529.88 across both of us, to be respected and resolved under UK law."
Tamas and Boglarka, in their own words to ImJustBrighton
ImJustBrighton mobilised its network immediately to help Tomi and Bogi find work, share this if you know of any opportunity in Brighton
ImJustBrighton had history with this shop
This closure hit differently for ImJustBrighton. Earlier this year, Tim Graichi Cucarella collaborated with Little Jack Fuller's and NeoTaste to run a promotional campaign: a £1 fish offer for customers using the code IMBRIGHTON2M. The campaign went wide across Brighton's food community and brought hundreds of new customers through the doors of 102 St James's Street. Tomi and Bogi were there for every one of them.
The reel below captures what that shop was: alive, full of food, full of people who cared about what they were serving.
When Tomi and Bogi got in touch with ImJustBrighton today, 26 September 2026, Tim Graichi Cucarella did not wait. He took their story on immediately, conducted the full investigation, and created a dedicated job-seeking graphic to push across the ImJustBrighton network the same day. The Brighton community responded. The post was picked up and shared by @only.in.brighton and others across the city. Brighton showed up.
"Brighton is not just a place to me. It is people. People like Tomi and Bogi who gave everything to this city every single day, who made a corner of Kemptown feel like home for hundreds of regulars who will miss them. When they reached out to me today I knew straight away this story had to be told. These two deserve better than a forwarded WhatsApp message and silence. Brighton stands for more than that. So do we."
Tim Graichi Cucarella, founder of ImJustBrighton, who conducted this investigation
Contact Tomi and Bogi directly, both available immediately full-time or part-time
They are looking for work. Right now. Today.
Tomi and Bogi are both available immediately, full-time or part-time, and between them cover the full range of hospitality management: kitchen operations, front of house, customer service, stock management, cash handling and day-to-day site running. Two and a half years managing one of Kemptown's busiest and most-loved takeaways is not a small thing on a CV. Both would love to stay in fish and chips, but they are open to anything in Brighton's hospitality sector.
If you know of any opportunity, please share this article or contact them directly:
Tamas (Tomi) hospitality, kitchen, customer service, pub kitchen, general management. Email: tomi970321@gmail.com
Boglarka (Bogi) front of house, customer service, retail, hospitality, pub kitchen. Email: Bogikaa2013@gmail.com
Three things you can do right now
1
Know of a job? Contact them directly.
Tomas is at tomi970321@gmail.com and Bogi is at Bogikaa2013@gmail.com. Both available immediately, both experienced hospitality managers. Don't sit on it.
2
Share this article.
The more people who read it, the more pressure there is for the company or estate to respond. Local journalism only works when local people share it. Please share this post or get in touch with them directly.
3
Know something we don't?
If you have information about the estate, the company, or the closure that is in the public interest, ImJustBrighton wants to hear from you. Contact Tim directly at info@imjustbrighton.co.uk
ImJustBrighton has reached out to Glenn Fuller and Little Jack Fullers Ltd via Instagram, the only publicly available contact for the business, to offer the opportunity to provide their side of the story. No response has been received at the time of publication. If Glenn Fuller or any representative of the company or estate wishes to respond, they are invited to contact ImJustBrighton at info@imjustbrighton.co.uk. A full right of reply will be published.
ImJustBrighton will continue to follow the ACAS proceedings and will update this article if Little Jack Fullers Ltd, Jack Fullers Traditional Fish and Chips Ltd (Companies House no. 15717946), the Executors of the Estate of David Fuller, or Glenn Fuller respond. All parties named in this investigation were given the opportunity to respond to the facts reported here before publication.
A fish and chip shop stood on that corner for over a century. The people who kept it going in its final chapter deserve to be paid what they are owed. That is why ImJustBrighton investigated.
Investigation and reporting: Tim Graichi Cucarella, ImJustBrighton, September 2026.
Primary source: Full on-the-record 36-question interview with Tamas and Boglarka, conducted by ImJustBrighton.
Background verification: Private documents including payslips, ACAS confirmation and correspondence provided to ImJustBrighton at the subjects' request and not published. ACAS references R283302/26 and R283305/26 confirmed.
Companies House: Jack Fullers Traditional Fish and Chips Ltd, company no. 15717946, incorporated 13 May 2024. Director: Glenn Fuller. Verified independently by ImJustBrighton.
Building history: mybrightonandhove.org.uk and the Regency Society James Gray Collection.
On-site evidence: Closure notice photographed at 102 St James's Street by ImJustBrighton.
Further reading: Brighton community reacts on Reddit
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