• M.I 5`Persecu tion . harassme nt at w ork

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    Once I stopped watching television and listening to the. radio at the end of 1990,. "they" had to find other ways of committing abuses. So they took what must be for them a tried and tested. route; they get at you by subversion of those around you. Since they wouldn't be able to do that with. my family or friends, that meant getting at people in the workplace to be. their
    mouthpieces and do their. dirty work for them.

    They supplied my employers in Oxford with details from what was going. on in
    my private life, and what I and other. people had said at my home and accommodation in Oxford. So people at work repeated verbatim. words which
    had been said in my. home, and repeated what I'd been doing recently. Often
    the most trivial things, the ones from your domestic. life, are the ones
    which hurt most. One manager in particular at Oxford continuously. abused me for. ten months with verbal sexual abuse, swearing, and threats to terminate
    my employment. After ten. months I was forced to seek psychiatric help and start. taking medication, and was away from work for two months. I spoke
    later with a solicitor about what. had happened at that company; he advised
    it was only possible to take action if. you had left the company as a result
    of harassment, and such an action would have to be started very. soon after leaving.

    Over a year later the same manager. picked on another new worker, with even more serious results; that employee tried. to commit suicide with an
    overdose as a result of the ill-treatment, and was. forced to leave his job. But he didn't take action against the company, either. Abuse at work. is comparable. to that elsewhere in that tangible evidence is difficult to produce, and the abusers will always have their. denials ready when
    challenged. And even if a court accepts. what you say happened, it still remains to prove that abuse causes the type. of breakdown I had at the end
    of. 1992. In a recent case before a British court, a former member of the
    Army brought a case against others. who had maltreated him ten years previously. Although the court accepted that abuse had occurred, it did. not agree that. depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied justice to
    the. plaintiff.

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