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Tue 07 Jul 2007PSNI discrimination claim upheldA PSNI civilian photographer who was sacked from his job suffered religious discrimination from two senior officers because he was engaged to and later married a Catholic, the North's Fair Employment Tribunal has ruled.The tribunal heard that Stephen Murphy, a Presbyterian living in Ballymena who married a Catholic woman from south Armagh, was subjected to severe religious intimidation by two mid-ranking police officers determined to force him from his post at Knocknagoney police station in east Belfast.