Supply the correct form of the verbs given in brackets and perform the role play given below.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 378.

Met Told to Pay £52,000 to Terror Expert

Yesterday, the Metropolitan police (1) _____________ (to order) to pay £52,000 damages to a terrorism analyst after it (2) _____________ (to find) that it (3) ______________________ (to influence) the decision of Sky News not to put him on air. Charles Shoebridge (4) ________________ (to win) his case at an employment tribunal that the Met (5) ______________ (to run) a campaign of victimization against him, and that it (6) ________ (to try) to derail his career as a media commentator on security issues.

It wasn't the first campaign the Met (7) _________________ (to conduct) against him. Mr Shoebridge, a former Scotland Yard counter-terrorism officer, (8) ________________ (to be) a regular contributor to news organizations. He (9) ___________________ (to leave) the Met in 2000 after winning claims for discrimination and victimization, for which the force (10) _____________________ (to pay) out at least £300,000.

In March this year, the tribunal (11) ________________ (to find) that the Met (12) __________________ (to continue) targeting Mr Shoebridge, and (13) ____________________ (to try) to stop Sky News and the ITV News Channel using him because he successfully (14) ________________ (to sue) them. (Mr Shoebridge (15) ____________________ (to clear) of bullying a female colleague. He then (16) __________________ (to charge) with indecently assaulting the same colleague, and (17) ___________________ (to acquit) by a jury).

Yesterday Mr Shoebridge (18) ____________________ (to award) £52,000 in damages for lost earnings and injury to his feelings. The tribunal found that the Met's chief press officer, Bob Cox, (19) _______________ (to try) to influence the ITV News Channel not to use Mr Shoebridge. Mr Shoebridge's appearances on Sky News also severely (20) _____________ (to curtail) after bosses (21) ________________ (to send) out a memo saying he should not be used.

The memo came after Sky's crime correspondent, Martin Brunt, (22) _______________ (to tell) by an unnamed Met source of a “slight question mark” against Mr Shoebridge, a claim he (23) _______________ (to pass) on to the channel's deputy head of news, Simon Cole. Mr Cole told the tribunal that Mr Shoebridge (24) _________________ (to drop) because staff (25) ______________ (to dislike) him, with one calling him “a creep”.

But in a unanimous judgment, the tribunal concluded: “The memo (26) _____________ (to issue) and undoubtedly Mr Shoebridge (27) _________ (not to use) regularly thereafter as he (28) ______________ (to be) before, and we link the two together.” The tribunal said the Met should investigate what (29) ___________________ (to happen) and make sure it could not happen again, giving a six-month deadline. A spokesman for the Met said the force (30) (to study) the findings but (31) _________________ (not to plan) to appeal.

(From ‘The Guardian', abridged)