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‘Psychic’ IT worker sacked for telling female new starter they already met ‘in his dreams’

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Elrich Daudet claimed the woman had appeared to him months before they met, as a muse for his poetry and songwriting (Picture: Champion News) A ‘psychic’ IT worker who was sacked after telling a new female colleague they had already met ‘in his dreams’ has lost a court battle for compensation. Elrich Daudet claimed the woman had appeared to him months before they met, as a muse for his poetry and songwriting. The woman emailed another colleague complaining that Daudet – who believes he has the ‘gift’ of prophetic dreams which foretell the future – was ‘doing her head in’. He was fired for gross misconduct after sending her ‘love poems’ likening her scent to ‘flowers in the Garden of Eden’, which a judge agreed made the woman feel ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘panicky’. Daudet sued IT firm Computacenter (UK) Ltd, claiming damages for unfair dismissal, harassment and discrimination on the basis of his race as a black man and of his ‘protected beliefs’. But the UK’s top employment judge, Lord Fair

First report: ‘Psychic’ IT worker loses compensation battle after being sacked for telling colleague he saw her in dreams — independent.co.uk, 11d