Doctor who was sexually assaulted at work wins case against trust after it asked colleagues if she had “inappropriate relationships”

A surgical trainee who was sexually assaulted by a colleague has won an employment tribunal case against her trust after the investigation into the incident questioned her relationships and failed to fully suspend the perpetrator until police told the hospital that he had been arrested for an alleged sexual assault on a girl under the age of 16.Elizabeth,* who worked as a surgeon at Royal Stoke University Hospital, was assaulted on a late shift at work on 11 June 2020. A colleague asked to speak to her in the urology office before forcibly kissing her face and neck, massaging her back, touching her waist, and blocking her as she pushed him away to leave the room. The perpetrator did not challenge Elizabeth’s account of events at the tribunal.She texted friends to tell them what had happened after her shift and reported the incident to her educational supervisor the next day….
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