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The excessive duration of my cross-examination by Mr Martinez
Page 1523 A-C: Mr Martinez estimates that cross-examination of me by them will take 2 to 3 hours, maybe half a day.

In reality, my cross-examination lasted for 18 hours over 4 days, with Mr Martinez and the Chairman perfectly aware that I was suffering from depression and anxiety, which made me a vulnerable person. There were constant repeats of the same questions, my statements were taken out of context to make them look like something entirely different, confusion was created by reversing the storyline, comments about unrelated incidents were mixed up to make them look as if they belonged to the same incident, other questions were brought up just to confirm what was already written in my detailed witness statement, with the aim to unnecessarily prolong the cross-examination with the clear intention to mentally and emotionally break me, to abuse my mental illness against me and force me to give up my claims. I did mention to the Chairman that my cross-examination felt like torture but this harsh and very long cross-examination happened with permission of the Chairman and continued although I repeatedly protested.

In the end this cross-examination caused significantly more damage to my mental health. The way the cross-examination was done, created confusion and was used to undermine my credibility. For instance, an early email in which I praised my team leader's intervention to stop the bullies was then connected by Hassans with another email from me from eight months later in which I complained about being bullied by my team leader. The content of both these emails was constantly taken out of context to make it look like I was contradicting myself and that I therefore was an unreliable witness. Many hours were spent jumping forwards and backwards between a variety of emails and trying to create confusion and invent non-existent inconsistencies. This did not work with me, but the Chairman did indeed get confused and lost the plot a few times, which is reflected in his Judgement. The Chairman could have prevented this by going through the written evidence in chronological order and then he would have concluded that the emails were about completely different situations or incidents which had nothing to do with each other and related to completely periods of time.

Protests about the Excessive Duration of my Cross-examination
Throughout my cross-examination by Mr Martinez, I protested twelve times about the long duration and harsh treatment I received. To my surprise the Chairman completely ignored my protests.

Page 1716 B – 1717 D, I ask how long cross-examination will go on and I express that I find it hard. The Chairman pushes to continue for another 15 minutes. The reality is that the transcript about my continued cross-examination takes another 41 pages after my protest, without any break.
Page 1719 E – G, I lost the plot as my mind had gone blank because of the high pressure put on me during cross-examination.

Page 1819 E – 1820 A: cross-examination will continue the following day and witnesses' presence has to be postponed. I ask for the afternoon off for the following day as the cross-examination is hard on me.

Page 1832 F – 1834 C: I explain how hard the continued cross-examination is and I question the reasonableness to continue with it. The Chairman refuses to end the cross-examination.

Page 1949 B – F: I feel a panic attack coming up. Mr Martinez insists to continue but the Chairman adjourns till the next day. I get the afternoon off to regain some of my mental strength.

Page 1887 A – C: I express again that the continued cross-examination is hard on me.

Page 1905 B – 1906 B: I complain about the extended cross-examination and use the word torture.

Page 1953 till the end of this hearing day, the fourth day of cross-examination, it is clear from the transcript that I am stuttering and stumbling over my words from exhaustion. The ongoing cross-examination has turned into useless time-wasting, repeats of earlier questions and going over old ground again.

Page 1974 C – E: I protest that we're now already at 15 hours of cross-examination but the Chairman insists to continue.

Page 1982 A – B: I point out that it takes too long because Mr Martinez is looking for inconsistencies where there are none.

Page 2003 B – F: I complain that we are 16 hours in cross-examination and that Mr Martinez's attempts to catch me out with for contradictions and lies are not working because there are none.

Page 2024 G – 2025 C: I complain about the long duration of the cross-examination. The Chairman insists to go on.

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