What happened to DeeAnn Fitzpatrick, was the ‘whistleblower’ taped to a chair and gagged by Marine Scotland colleagues?
Woman, 49, accused co-workers at the government agency Marine Scotland of a decade of harassment over keeping quiet about their offensive behaviour
A FISHERIES worker claimed she was gagged and bound to a chair in a bid to scare her off from complaining about colleagues.
Here is all you need to know about the extraordinary allegations.
What happened to DeeAnn Fitzpatrick?
DeeAnn Fitzpatrick, 48, says she was targeted as a warning after complaining of racist and misogynistic culture at a Marine Scotland office in Scrabster, Caithness, in the far north east of Scotland.
The "whistleblower" alleges she was subjected to a decade-long campaign of bullying and harassment.
The Canadian national also claimed she was mocked over a miscarriage and was the victim of threatening behaviour and racist language at the body's Scrabster office in Caithness.
Colleagues allegedly told her they didn’t want “a woman, especially a foreign woman”, .
DeeAnn took her case to an employment tribunal and lost.
The tribunal could not consider the claim she was taped to a chair, as it happened more than three years before the complaint was made.
Rhoda Grant, Labour MSP, who supported the Canadian national, said after seeing a photo of DeeAnn tied up: “It’s horrific. I’m kind of speechless.”
DeeAnn's sister-in-law Sherry Fitzpatrick said about the 2010 picture: "We were horrified. We were sickened. We worry about what this has done to her."
Was the ‘whistleblower’ taped to a chair and gagged by Marine Scotland colleagues?
Ms Fitzpatrick claimed she was taped to a chair and gagged by two male workers.
BBC Scotland has obtained a photo that appears to show the incident.
It was reportedly taken by one of the men allegedly responsible.
A tribunal heard one colleague told her: “This is what you get when you speak out against the boys.”
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What have others said about the photograph?
Rhoda Grant, Labour MSP, said after seeing the photo of DeeAnn tied up: “It’s horrific. I’m kind of speechless.”
DeeAnn's sister-in-law Sherry Fitzpatrick said about the 2010 picture: "We were horrified. We were sickened. We worry about what this has done to her."
The tribunal is ongoing.
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