Aesthetic moment Scottish Authorities employee is tied up and gagged

Strapped to a chair and gagged with gaffer tape, this woman appears to be like to be the sufferer of a kidnapping.

The image presentations fisheries employee DeeAnn Fitzpatrick for the duration of an incident which she claims became once phase of a campaign of intimidation she suffered by the hands of her male colleagues.

On the other hand, when she complained, her predicament became once belief to be by one her managers to be a case of ‘boys being boys’ rather then one amongst alleged bullying.

Miss Fitzpatrick, a Canadian-nationwide, says she confronted day to day racism, threatening behaviour and even jokes about her most up-to-date miscarriage from her male colleagues while working at Marine Scotland as a fisheries officer.

She alleges that campaign against her persevered for nearly ten years.

Now, after a yr off work, Miss Fitzpatrick has brought an employment tribunal case against the Scottish government, which is to blame for the fishing watchdog.

One in every of the men who allegedly bullied her took the image in 2010, after Miss Fitzpatrick, from Thurso, Scotland, blew the whistle on what she claims became once the misogynistic place of job tradition she confronted each and each day.

They allegedly told her: ‘This is what you accept if you notify out against the boys.’ After the horrible ordeal, which has been described as a symptom of trouble of enterprise tradition ‘out of snatch an eye on’ by one MSP, the forty eight-yr-ragged acknowledged she tried to whinge – to no avail.

Documents bought by the BBC characterize Miss Fitzpatrick received in contact with one amongst her managers quickly after the alleged attack at the trouble of enterprise in Scrabster, near Thurso.

The supervisor acknowledged he would have ‘a observe’ with the men enthusiastic including: ‘I’m clear they supposed no spoil and that became once the boys lawful being boys.’

The image can’t be ancient as proof because the tribunal will now not think the incident it allegedly presentations because it happened three years earlier than the case became once brought.

But Miss Fitzpatrick’s sister-in-legislation Sherry Fitzpatrick acknowledged it most important to be shown.

‘We had been disquieted. We had been sickened. We anguish about what this has done to her,’ she told the BBC.

‘She’s now not giving up and now her family is within the relieve of her, and we’re now not giving up till any individual is made accountable for his or her actions.’

She acknowledged Miss Fitzpatrick had made her house in Scotland for nearly 25 years.

Rhoda Grant, a Labour MSP for the Highlands and Islands who has been serving to Miss Fitzpatrick in her case, acknowledged: ‘It’s horrific. I’m more or much less speechless. It appears to be like to me that or now not it is out of snatch an eye on.’

The BBC have named the alleged attackers as Reid Anderson and Jody Paske.

Mr Anderson, who’s assumed to had been nowadays promoted, did not acknowledge to allegations.

But Mr Paske, who no longer works at the corporate, told the BBC: ‘These are counterfeit allegations. I will’t be wide awake the tournament you mention, nevertheless if it did happen, it could perhaps well had been trouble of enterprise banter.

‘Lawful a craic. Surely nothing to carry out with abuse.’

The Scottish government acknowledged that it ‘doesn’t statement on internal staffing matters’.

A spokesman added: ‘The Scottish government has clear requirements of behaviour which observe to all workers. ‘

Any concerns raised by workers are taken severely and investigated fully.’