A WOMAN who was sacked by an airport security firm after she complained of sexual harassment has won more than £17,000 compensation.

Diana Jackson, 39, sued Didcot-based ICTS Services Limited for damages alleging sex discrimination and public interest disclosure after she lost her job as a dog handler.

Miss Jackson told how she was dismissed the day after a man she accused of sexual harassment was suspended. After she lodged her complaint against him, others made similar accusations.

An employment tribunal panel found in Miss Jackson’s favour at the end of a three-day hearing in which she claimed she was wrongly sacked after being accused of bad time-keeping and failure to perform her duties.

The panel, sitting at Reading, heard Miss Jackson was being trained to work with dogs that sniff out explosives in aeroplane cargo when she was sacked after relations with her manager turned sour.

The tribunal heard trouble started when Miss Jackson, of Paxford Close, Wellingborough, led a complaint by her and other workers against one of her colleagues, Leonard Ocham, at the firm’s Didcot training centre.

The firm had denied liability and was given four weeks to pay her the £17,000 pounds compensation.