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affect my continued employment”. The choice I had was made clear: return to the bullies or get sacked.

272. On 1st May 2018 I sent a quite long email to Danielle Wood and Emma Horwood at HR in which I explained my situation and my feelings about what had been happening over the last few days. I showed that their email about extension of suspension was written in such a way that it could be interpreted in different ways and that my interpretation in the context of those days had been that my suspension had been extended as requested by me. I also asked for a number of documents regarding meetings with me to help me prepare my appeal against the bullying investigation outcome. In the end I never received those documents and later it was even claimed in emails that I did not need those documents. I thought immediately that the Gibraltar Data Protection legislation was being breached by the way GVC/bwin handled my request. Later, the Commissioner of the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority concluded after an investigation that GVC indeed breached the Data Protection Act and regulations twice by not providing me the requested documents within twenty-eight days.

273. My email to Danielle Wood and Emma Horwood:
Dear Danielle, Emma,
It saddens me deeply that precisely on International Workers' Day 1st May I have to receive your alarming e-mail and have to write a reply to it. I can assure you that my hands are shaking while I write this and that I'm close to tears and will most probably have another few sleepless nights because of this. This very negatively affects the quality of my life.
First of all I wish to clearly state that this is NOT my appeal to the investigation's conclusion, I need much more time for that and you will receive my appeal on 7th May before 6pm although only 5 working days is a ridiculously short time for an appeal as I have to go through thousands of e-mails.
Your e-mail of 27th April in which you reply to my wish for further suspension to enable me to write a documented appeal has a very confusing message that can be interpreted in different ways. You have to understand that English is not my first language so extreme clarity would have been required. You chose though to write in ways open to


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