Devine to pay £35k damages

FORMER Labour MP Jim Devine has been ordered to pay his former office manager £35,000 in damages after she won a jobs tribunal.

Marion Kinley, 47, from Glasgow, won claims for breach of contract and unfair dismissal after he failed to show at the hearing in Edinburgh yesterday.

Judge Jane Porter said: "The claimant showed great fortitude through her employment during which it can only be said the claimant was subjected to bullying and harassment."

The tribunal found in her favour on all counts.

Mr Devine could not be contacted for comment last night. Miss Kinley said: "It's been two and a half years of just unbelievable lies being told about me by Mr Devine.

"He just seemed to think he could treat people anyway he wanted to and tell lies about them and get away with it."