Whistleblower was portrayed as a ‘crook’

A surgeon was portrayed as ‘irrational, vexatious and dishonest’ when he became a whistleblower on avoidable deaths at children’s hospital, the Court of Appeal heard. Edwin Jesudason, worked at Alder Hey Hospital on Merseyside, where he operated on babies with birth defects and children with rare tumours. He was forced to resign in 2012 after he criticised his consultant paediatric surgeon colleagues and made allegations of bullying and racism. Jesudason lost a subsequent employment tribunal and an appeal against its…