Award reflects level of abuse

THE victim at the centre of the tribunal only confessed what was happening to her doctor in May 2015 - three years after first getting antidepressants to cope with the abuse.

The scale of the case has resulted in one of the biggest tribunal pay outs of recent years.

Mr Khan and the charity were jointly ordered to pay her £74,647, as well as around £15,000 of interest, and £2,600 for ongoing psychological treatment.

The remedy judgment says: “The claimant has suffered a lengthy and sustained series of acts of harassment an victimisation.

“We have found that the acts perpetrated by the second respondent were in many cases calculated, premeditated and carried out with an intention to exercise control over the claimant.

“These acts included reducing the claimant’s working days in response to her rejecting his advances, threatening dismissal of the claimant, issuing the claimant with a final written warning without justification and taking steps in order to prevent the claimant leaving employment.

“The second respondent’s acts were carried out against a background of threatening to make disclosures to the claimant’s family in order to continue exercising control over her and turning up at her parent’s home.”