A matron who quit a North Yorkshire care home rather than work with a woman, whose father killed a member of her family, has lost her case at an industrial tribunal.

Angela Gerhold resigned as deputy matron at Temple Manor nursing home, in Temple Hirst village, near Selby, within days of discovering Elizabeth Brookes had been offered a job there as a care assistant.

Ms Brookes' father Peter Andrew Brookes was jailed for four years in 1993 for killing his 31-year-old pregnant girlfriend by banging her head on the floor in a drunken row at the home they shared in Bondgate, Selby.

The dead woman was the sister of Ms Gerhold's partner, the hearing in Leeds was told.

Ms Gerhold had claimed she had been constructively dismissed by Temple Manor proprietors Elaine Eltringham and Ralph Greenwall, but the panel unanimously rejected her claim.