The judge also agreed that Mr Harlock had suffered stress and mental illness from his concerns being ignored.

BBC: George Harlock

George Harlock lost his job as a bridge inspector for Mouchel, which did bridge maintenance for the council.

BBC: George Harlock

At a seven-day hearing at Bedford Employment Tribunals last October, Mr Harlock claimed automatic unfair dismissal for whistle-blowing for which the hearing found in his favour.

BBC: George Harlock

Mr Harlock said he was "very relieved" to have won but it had had a "negative" effect on his health and he had been "suicidal on occasions".

BBC: George Harlock

Mr Harlock, from Woolstone, said he joined Mouchel Business Services in mid-2008 and by the autumn he was finding "a lot of safety defects" including in "many cases", crash barriers not properly secured to the bridges.

BBC: George Harlock

The film was written by videogame scribe Flint Dille (The Transformers: The Movie, Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay) from a story by Shinji Aramaki, Joseph Chou and Shigehito Kawada and produced by Joseph Chou (Appleseed Ex-Machina, Halo Legends, Space Pirate: Captain Harlock).

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