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When it emerged that the engineer was employed by SYSTRA, which works with Network Rail, Hendy instructed his officers to “write on to their CEO” with “a request for disciplinary motion as this can be a severe and utterly unproven allegation.”
He adopted up his e-mail every week later, asking officers “How did we take care of him?” — adopted weeks later by a letter to SYSTRA wherein he warned the corporate is likely to be handed over for future work.
Dennis was suspended on May 20, in line with a suspension letter from his employer seen by POLITICO, citing Hendy’s grievance.
In September 2023 the federal government regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), had issued an enchancment discover to Network Rail about overcrowding on the station, warning: “You have did not implement, as far as fairly practicable, efficient measures to stop dangers to well being and security of passengers (and different individuals on the station) throughout passenger surges and overcrowding occasions at London Euston Station.”
Dennis, who recurrently feedback on railway issues within the media, instructed his employer’s disciplinary panel that he was merely re-stating the publicly out there issues of the regulator for a wider viewers. As minister for rail, Hendy’s tasks now embrace overseeing the ORR.
Network Rail instructed POLITICO in a press release that it had already addressed the regulator’s issues about overcrowding. The ORR discover had instructed the government-owned firm to do a correct threat evaluation of potential crushes on the station and to attract up enough crowd management plans to mitigate them.
