An admin worker has lost a sexual harassment case after she complained her colleague messaged her saying "ready for your big penetration". Farah Farook moaned that her Network Rail co-worker Ben Fairburn had played "footsy" with her, messaged her "hiya trouble" and made her "uncomfortable" by asking her to go for a walk.
An employment tribunal heard the administrator made a total of 43 sexual harassment allegations against the technician spanning three months. However, the tribunal has ruled the behaviour was part of an ongoing "flirty relationship" which "objectively showed a mutual intensity".
The pair messaged "thousands" of times, chatted late at night, and Miss Farook frequently initiated contact, the panel found. They also made sexual innuendos, had "sexual conversation", watched a movie at Mr Fairburn's house and went on a day out which appeared to look like a "romantic" date.
