Whistleblower refused pay-off offered by MP to abandon tribunal case but was rejected because he ‘showed no remorse’ for suffering of vulnerable women
As Skwawkbox revealed earlier today, whistleblower Elaina Cohen has won her tribunal case for unfair dismissal against right-wing Labour MP Khalid Mahmood in a judgment that confirms the ‘protected disclosures’ Cohen made to Mahmood, party leader Keir Starmer, general secretary David Evans and others in the party hierarchy about the horrific and criminal abuse victims of domestic violence suffered at the hands of Mahmood’s staffer and alleged lover.
Despite repeated appeals from Cohen to act to protect vulnerable women who were being blackmailed, threatened and coerced to commit fraud and act as entertainment for powerful men – now sworn evidence that Mahmood accepted without challenge and the tribunal has also validated – Starmer and Evans took no action. Khalid Mahmood remained on Starmer’s front bench and has never been eve administratively suspended pending investigation, much less disciplined or expelled.
And Skwawkbox can also reveal that Ms Cohen turned down escalating offers reaching a six-figure sum to drop the case, because the offers sought to gag her from discussing the abuse and subsequent cover-up – and because of the lack of regret shown about what they suffered.
Skwawkbox understands from sources around the case that Ms Cohen refused to accept the gagging clauses but also that she was outraged that Mahmood ‘showed no remorse’, despite the offers continuing to increase even as the tribunal hearing proceeded.
Starmer has since attempted to present himself as the champion of domestic violence victims. But the tribunal decision – and the sworn evidence of ‘Victim A’, that Mahmood and his team did not even challenge – along with emails that Skwawkbox revealed exclusively months ago, make Starmer’s position untenable, all the more so because he has continued to enjoy hospitality and photo opportunities with Mahmood in Birmingham around the Commonwealth Games.
Today’s decision should be Starmer’s ‘Pincher moment’ – and Elaina Cohen deserves huge applause for putting the truth and the needs of vulnerable women above the chance of a huge and easy pay-day.
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