Council criticised after hiring private detectives to follow a sick employee

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• Thompsons Solicitors

Swansea Council has been criticised for a "cruel and deliberate attack" on one of its own workers in a row over a sickness dispute.

Malcolm Honey, who worked as a legal executive, brought the case after being dismissed by Swansea Council for an alleged breach of trust and confidence.

The two-day hearing took place in Cardiff and followed an investigation into Honey, who had been off sick for three weeks with bronchitis in July 2006.

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