Social worker ‘groped’ female colleague

 A social worker has been suspended after he “groped” a junior colleague and told her he liked a “good pair of baps” as he squeezed a pack of bread rolls. Robert Robertson developed an “attachment” to the woman, taking her to a small first-aid room in their office and “touching her breast and backside inappropriately”, a disciplinary hearing was told.

The panel heard that Robertson mentioned enjoying porn featuring women “of [his colleague’s] size” and made the “bad taste joke” about liking baps when looking through some food shopping the woman had bought. He also got “aroused” in another incident, when he touched her breasts again and told her they “didn’t disappoint”.

Suspending Robertson for 12 months, the Health and Care Professions tribunal said his sexual misconduct was “too serious” to ignore. It heard Robertson had been a social worker for more than three decades and was a senior manager at Kent County Council when the incidents took place.