The Mystery letter
Attended the Newcastle Employment Tribunal today with Yunus Bakhsh, a mental health Nurse unfairly dismissed by his Employer who were then ordered to reinstate him.
They then refused to reinstate him and left him financially in massive debt - after a massive campaign where he has been supported by lots of people including Jon McDonnell and others.
A QC called John Hendy then offered to help him and Louise Christian issued proceedings for Judicial Review against the Tyne & Wear Northumberland Newcastle and North Tyneside Mental Health Trust which will be heard in November.
Massive amount of public money has been spent on this Scandal.
Today, Yunus was trying to apply for his Costs but first hurdle was being allowed to apply out of time.
But first his employers, tried to introduce a 'Mystery letter' Sent I kid you not, allegedly, by a 'Well Wisher' allegedly to a Trust Board member supposedly warning him off giving evidence to the High Court.
The letter had allegedly been sent last Friday and the implication was that Yunus had received the documents from his Solicitors and after receiving these which included one by this man Ken Grey, had allegedly written this letter.
Unfortunately for them Yunus did not receive the Documents until Saturday AFTER the letter had allegedly been received by Mr Grey, who is also a Magistrate.
Strangely perhaps, Magistrate Mr Grey as far as we are aware made no complaint of this alleged attempt at Witness intimidation.
Of course it is obvious now this was sent by someone on the Trust side trying to bad mouth Yunus and so instead of him committing a criminal offence one of them has!
After a contested hearing which included the Trust having two Partners in the firm of Ward Hadaway sitting behind a London Counsel doing nothing but costing a lot whilst in these proceedings, Yunus was represented by a small Gateshead firm Swinburne and Jackson and a Warrington Barrister.
The hearing took virtually all of the day and Yunus won.
This has probably cost somewhere in the region of £500k from NHS patient money in Costs.
The whole charade has cost much money; emotional trauma for Yunus and all around him.
