Hello to whomever is interested in this saga. Just an update, sorry it's a bit of a long one. First of all thanks to everyone who has commented and offered support its been a great help.
After a number of weeks under the impression I am one of the accused, last week I was told I was being called as a witness only. I dont know why this is the case. On the day of the incident our accuser was very clearly reporting us both to management . Despite this, I just continued my efforts in the same way to prepare. Our interviews were yesterday. It was quite clear management had their agenda and were sticking to it. At one point they questioned our issue with her behaviour. In isolation it could be perceived as just noise with not alot of substance, but in the broader scheme of things with ALL of the other incidences, it was so relevant. One of the interviewers was the good cop, the other, bad cop. There was a bit of leaping about with questions. Im frustrated now
that i couldnt, on occasion, get my point across better and have been more insistent about being heard. I did though go through the historical set up, which was relevant to current day practices and behaviours. They just seemed at times to not want to hear a lot of it , honing in on what they wanted to hear and ignoring others. I was able, with the support of my union rep to get in about a serious event from last year that my accuser really tried to compromise me on. One of the interviewers was more obvious in her bemusement about this. At one point they did say, which I just felt was their way of putting it out there early on, that this was just a case of a disgruntled employee (our accuser)who had been usurped from her managerial role by my colleague, the now sole accused, saying ' oh we see, oh that's why, !!!! ...It's becoming more clear what's happened here ' If I could have, I would have been quite clear in telling them that I'm not that stupid and that this was their ploy to make it a simple matter, when it is in fact a lot more serious. POPPYCOCK !! Anyway I phoned my colleague afterwards and told her how frustrating the style of interviewing was, and how disjointed it was which made it difficult to get your point across. So she just went in and made sure they listened !!! Told them about our accusers games, lies, deceit, tactics and how we both feared for our registration. They were shocked and horrified.
Our accuser had named a colleague from another discipline as a witness. She didn't even have the decency to ask or tell him she was calling him as a witness. She thought she could butter him up, despite historically giving him the same treatment as she has given us. She was expecting him to go in and say how he had heard her say she was going to management about us, because of how we were, apparently, speaking to her. (I could have been reading the phone book. She would have said the same thing in the same manner) This man is the most straight up decent individual you could ever meet. But he is no pushover, so he gave an honest account of how he heard her being very irate on the phone to us. If she knew she would be horrified, but from this it just reiterates to me how completely blind she is to her own behaviour. It is all about everyone else. Interestingly she didn't include the other person in the room at the time as a witness...Another person she has more recently bullied, a very mild mannered, and accommodating clerical person, who ended up withdrawing her help to our team because of how she was treated by her. As a word of warning to all out there who may have to go through something like this, our manager, who has had all of these antics reported to her on an ongoing basis, and had told us from the outset that she 'couldnt speak to us as she was part of the investigation', wasnt even going to be interviewed !!!! That is, until my colleague realised this during her interview, and so made sure she was going to be interviewed. My colleague at the outset of all this would have believed our manager was supportive, I was always the more sceptical, that is not the case now. Our manager used to say to her every time she had to report this persons antics, 'you're doing a great job, we are right behind you, if you need anything just let us know.' So there will now be more interviews as a result of my colleagues statements. There appeared to be only a witness called to support our accusers issues, despite my colleague putting in her own statement at the outset with her version of events and other issues. If this process is open to question, should this carry on, it appears very one-sided to me. I came home and copied down what I could remember about my interview, just in case. Glad it's over though, for now. Crashed and burned last night. Thanks again for all the input. Any further developments I'll keep you posted.