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A LONDON UNDERGROUND worker was found not guilty yesterday after months of “political prosecution.”
Train driver and transport union RMT branch secretary Mark Harding was told he was free to go, having been arrested under section 241 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act in February, accused of intimidation by former Transport for London graduate trainee Gareth Scott.
Mr Scott, who crossed an RMT picket line at Hammersmith Tube station, called the British Transport Police after suggesting Mr Harding had called him a “scab.”
Sexual harassment on Britain’s railways is rising sharply, according to the British Transport Police, yet too many women still feel reporting is futile. LYNNE WALSH asks why the burden of safety all too often remains on women themselves
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury