Racism row | HR probe into black worker's sex life 'wouldn't have happened if she was white'

The treatment of a black woman, whose workplace assigned an "all-white" panel to investigate her private life, would not have happened if she was white, a tribunal has said.

As reported by The Guardian, Sonia Warner, a civil servant, was working for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office when bosses subjected her to a six-month long internal investigation.

It was alleged that she had formed “an intimate relationship with an employee of an organisation receiving UK government cash” while working in Nigeria as an anti-corruption adviser, The Guardian said.

As a result, she was accused of misconduct, for “failing to report a conflict of interest due to a relationship.”