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He said Whybrow swore and racially abused them as the row turned physical, with Whybrow reaching through his kitchen window to grab a knife.

In response to the ruling, a DHS spokesperson told the BBC the scheme had been "abused, exploited, and politicised as a de facto amnesty program", while indicating it would assess its legal options.

The panel said Monguia abused his authority in some cases — including in September 2023, when a woman voluntarily showed up for a bench warrant with her child.

Their lot is similar to that of abused healthcare workers and public school teachers, other subjects served well by the mockumentary architecture that “The Office” refined into a workplace comedy standard.

But the movement collapsed in controversy in 1995 after a number of women alleged they had been abused by Brain.