A COURT has rubbished claims an ex-teacher was invited to watch a pornographic film called “Jewish Girls Gone Wild” in her boss’s office.

An employment tribunal, this week dismissed allegations Alison Hilton, a former teacher at Treehouse Nursery in Wanstead, was sexually harassed by company secretary Paul Samouelle at work.

Miss Hilton alleged she was sexually harassed by Mr Samouelle on two occasions at the nursery, also claiming, as a practicing Jewish person, she had suffered racial and religious discrimination.

She said Mr Samouelle first approached her later in September 2014, after she had returned to work after leave to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

The teacher claimed her boss asked her to watch pornography named “Jewish Girls Gone Wild” in the nursery office, before making a gesture, inviting Miss Hilton to join him.

She had also claimed a month later Mr Samouelle asked her to come to the nursery’s after school club with him, before miming the action of “bending her over a chair and gyrating his hips”.

However, in its final judgement of the case, the tribunal rules said it was unlikely these incidents had ever occurred and Miss Hilton had failed to explain why she did not raise the issue earlier.

The tribunal’s report stated: “A point which undermines [Miss Hilton’s] credibility very seriously is why, on her account, she only raised with the [nursery] on March 4, 2015, the incident which she alleged occurred in September 2014.

“She gave no credible explanation as to why she did not refer to the first incident in a January 2015 meeting.

“It appeared to the tribunal that these were all matters which pointed to the unlikelihood of these episodes ever having occurred.”

The tribunal also found the nursery’s office computer, which the former teacher claimed Mr Samouelle invited her to watch pornography on, had a filter installed to prevent access to sexual content.

Miss Hilton had worked at the nursery since May 2009 and was employed as a senior nursery practitioner, with around 20 years’ experience.

The tribunal dismissed complaints against the nursery of racial and religious discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation under the Equality Act 2010.