Intercourse scandal hits busy London ambulance station amid allegations of employees sleeping with one another whereas on responsibility – as paramedic sacked after ‘witnessing colleagues getting intimate’

A intercourse scandal has hit a busy ambulance station amid allegations of employees sleeping with one another whereas on responsibility. 

It appeared everybody on the station ‘has been or is in some sort of romantic relationship with one another’, a choose at an employment tribunal mentioned final week. 

Medic Karen Gregory-Carr, 43, informed the tribunal how she walked in to a again workplace at Bromley ambulance station in London and located a feminine colleague performing a intercourse act on a male supervisor. 

After she informed colleagues what she had seen, London Ambulance Service bosses accused her of constructing up the story and fired her for gross misconduct. 

However Mrs Gregory-Carr final week received a declare for unfair dismissal on the employment tribunal in London after the choose dominated she had witnessed one thing ‘untoward’. 

Mrs Gregory-Carr mentioned she had seen a feminine colleague performing a intercourse act on supervisor Phillip Sullivan at Bromley ambulance station in London

Medic Ceric Clarke was seen by her colleague in a compromising place with supervisor Philip Sullivan in August 2022

The tribunal heard that gossip about employees having intercourse at work was rife on the ambulance station, with one member of employees describing it as a ‘poisonous hearsay mill’. 

Mrs Gregory-Carr informed the court docket she discovered supervisor Phillip Sullivan and medic Ceris Clarke in a compromising place when she arrived for her shift an hour early in August 2022. 

Particulars of the incident quickly unfold across the station and Mr Sullivan and Ms Clarke complained to administration. 

They denied Mrs Gregory-Carr’s claims. 

Romford ambulance station supervisor James Johnson carried out an investigation for London Ambulance Service and dominated Mrs Gregory-Carr had made up the story. 

The couple admitted they have been in a relationship after Mr Sullivan cut up together with his spouse, however mentioned they have been having tea collectively when Mrs Gregory-Carr walked in. 

Mr Johnson mentioned: ‘We are able to conclude Karen didn’t witness Ceris and Phillip in flagrante.’ 

Nevertheless, the tribunal dominated final week that the investigation had been biased in opposition to Mrs Gregory-Carr and there was an ‘inbuilt assumption that the hearsay was malicious’. 

Employment choose Louise Rea mentioned: ‘The panel finds the claimant did witness one thing within the room between Phillip Sullivan and Ceris Clarke which she thought was untoward.’ 

Employment choose Louise Rea criticised the shortage of an investigation into the ‘wider problematic tradition within the office… in relation to gossip and frequent sexual or romantic relationships being shaped’. Pictured: Bromley Ambulance Station, in south east London

She criticised the shortage of an investigation into the ‘wider problematic tradition within the office… in relation to gossip and frequent sexual or romantic relationships being shaped’. 

The choose did, nevertheless, uphold that Mrs Gregory-Carr had dedicated gross misconduct as a result of she had not adopted appropriate procedures, however informed colleagues about what she had seen moderately than report it to administration. 

A listening to is because of happen to determine the extent of compensation to Mrs Gregory-Carr, who now works for the Metropolitan Police. 

She mentioned after the case: ‘This has had a huge effect on my household, kids and normal wellbeing.’ 

Ms Clarke declined to remark and Mr Sullivan didn’t reply to a request for remark. 

London Ambulance Service boss Daniel Elkeles mentioned: ‘We’re very disenchanted by the result of this case on the grounds of procedural errors.’