DEPUTY Collin Egré has been accused of exerting political pressure to help his son’s lover in her fight against alleged unfair dismissal from a nursing charity.

An Employment Tribunal is hearing the case of Christine Brennan, who says she was unfairly dismissed from her position as information governance officer for Family Nursing and Home Care after being suspended on 8 July last year.

Family Nursing have alleged that Mrs Brennan was having an affair with Dominique Egré, who performed a similar role at Health and Social Services, and that the pair had a secure computer folder that only they could access containing sensitive medical information from Family Nursing alongside Centeniers’ reports from the time when Mr Egré served in the St Peter honorary police.

The charity claim that the existence of the information in the secure folder was a breach of the Data Protection Law and it was Mrs Brennan’s job to ensure data protection compliance.

The director of Family Nursing, Karen Huchet, says that she did not have access to the secure site, even though it contained vital information that she should have been privy to.

The tribunal heard that the organisation suspended and then sacked Mrs Brennan shortly after Mr Egré had also been suspended by Health and Social Services for alleged e-mail fraud.

He had been due to take up a role at Family Nursing which would have made him Mrs Brennan’s boss.

Both Mrs Brennan and Dominique Egré are the subject of police investigations.

Ms Huchet claimed that the organisation came under political pressure from Mr Egré’s father, Collin, the Deputy of St Peter , during Mrs Brennan’s disciplinary process.

Neither the allegation – made by Family Nursing adviser June Summers-Shaw – of an extra-marital affair between Mr Egré and Mrs Brennan nor the suggestion of political pressure were substantiated by Family Nursing at the tribunal and Deputy Egré today denounced the allegations to the JEP.

‘I have never, ever put political pressure on anyone whatsoever,’ he said.

And he also claimed that the allegations of Family Nursing about his son having an affair were untrue.

‘They have never, ever been lovers,’ he said.