Daily Mail reports that Farai Hombarume, 53, a healthcare assistant from Thornaby,
Teesside, was considered a pest by female colleagues at a psychiatric unit, who
dreaded his sexualised 'banter' at work.
The women complained Hombarume was harassing them and one
had to go on sick leave for several months due to the stress he had caused her.
Following disciplinary hearings he was fired for gross misconduct in 2019 from
the job he had held for nine years.
But he fought back, accusing the Tees Esk and Wear Valley
(TEWV) NHS Foundation Trust of discriminating against him because he was black.
Homburame said: 'I truly believe these accusations are based on my race, skin
colour and mere hatred from the three staff members.
'I'm a family man, I have a partner who is a teacher and
daughters of my own at university. I would never say the things I was accused
of saying, they conspired against me and the reason I was treated the way I was
came down to my race and the colour of my skin. There was an instance where I
was racially abused by a patient, which is something that happens.
'However I expected my colleagues to be supportive but
instead they laughed about it. 'The decision of the tribunal is very
disappointing and I have written to them asking them to reconsider their
findings. I had worked for that trust for 10 years on so many different wards
and never had a complaint against me.'
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