An ex-cop who helped to snare the Yorkshire Ripper posed as a care chief to silence a whistleblower, a tribunal heard. Retired Peter Sutcliffe probe veteran Bob Taylor was said to have tried to intimidate the worker by posing as a boss at the Care Quality Commission.
He allegedly warned Karen Maguire off reporting concerns about a home, saying: “There would be consequences.” An employment court judge blasted Mr Taylor, once dubbed SuperCop, for being “deliberately evasive” and not giving a statement “dealing truthfully” with the incident.
The Leeds tribunal heard Mrs Maguire, 44, took a “threatening” call from him after quitting her job over neglect fears at Charlton Court care home in Pudsey, West Yorkshire.
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