

Mrs Onuoha grew up in Nigeria and was determined to become a nurse after one of her brothers died from measles due to a lack of medical provision.Ĭoming to the UK in 1988 and fulfilling her ambition, she worked at Croydon University Hospital the best part of two decades. Her lawyers will argue bosses breached her freedom to manifest her faith under Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights and the Equality Act.Īs evidence begins today, Mrs Onuoha say she was ‘treated like a criminal’ by her employer. Represented by the Christian Legal Centre, Mrs Onuoha will now challenge the trust on the grounds of harassment, victimisation, direct and indirect discrimination, and constructive and unfair dismissal. She says she left work with stress in June 2020 and believed she faced no alternative but to resign later that year.
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The issue was escalated in August 2018 when bosses said the cross was a breach of the Croydon Health Services NHS Trust’s dress code and uniform policy.įor her continued refusals, she was investigated, suspended from clinical duties and demoted to working as a receptionist, which she found deeply humiliating. The nurse has warn the same gold necklace for 40 years and never had any complaints from patients (Picture: Triangle News)

However, she says other clinical staff members the NHS hospital in south London were permitted to wear jewellery, saris, turbans, and hijabs and that only the cross was scrutinised.

Ms Onuoha claims her head of department even said he would call security if she wore it in a clinical area. She says she was told the small gold cross was a health and safety risk and ‘must not be visible’. She had been a staff member there for 18 years and had warn the piece of jewellery for 40 years to mark her devout Christian faith.īut from 2015, she claims a succession of managers told her to remove the item, or else the matter would face ‘escalation’. Tarkan Yavaş, one of Oktar's accomplices, also received a 211-year prison sentence for being an executive member of the organization, sexual abuse of a minor, sexual abuse, misstatement of property, and committing perjury in official documents.Mary Onuoha will testify before an employment tribunal today about how she was subjected to a campaign at Croydon University Hospital to have the gold crucifix removed. On occasion, he was broadcast dancing with young women whom he called his “kittens” and singing with young men, his “lions.”
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The 64-year-old cult leader who owned a TV channel was arrested in 2018 along with 200 collaborators, following allegations of sexual abuse and kidnapping of minors.īefore his arrest, Oktar ran his own television channel, A9, where he hosted talk shows on Islamic values. Oktar was also convicted of sexual abuse of minors, sexual abuse, holding a person against their will, torture, interruption of the right to education, recording personal data, and threatening someone. The court gave Oktar a total of 1,075 years and three months in prison over the charges of founding and leading a criminal organization, political or military espionage and aiding U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, Ankara's top suspect for the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016. A Turkish court slapped Islamic televangelist cult leader Adnan Oktar with over 1,000 years in prison for ten separate crimes on Jan.
