UN worker claims unfair dismissal

A United Nations worker was sacked after she complained to her bosses that police sent into Bosnia were forcing women into prostitution and taking personal sex slaves, an employment tribunal heard today.

The hearing in Southampton was told that American Kathryn Bolkovac had complained in several e-mails about the police and Nato troops in the country were helping local Mafia gangs in exploiting the women.

The 41-year-old mother of three from Nebraska claims she was dismissed because she tried to blow the whistle on how her colleagues were helping in the crimes.

The men who were involved were hired and trained by a British based company called Dyn Corp, it was alleged. The firm was responsible for about 300 police officers working in the Balkan country that was devastated by civil war in the early 1990s.