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£100,000 award for stress

A prison clerk has been awarded £100,000 for stress after witnessing a training exercise by prison officers in which they held a colleague hostage. She believed it was an armed gang who threatened to kill a nurse at the prison. The claimant said she was unable to continue working and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.

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