Woodall worked as a senior industry head in Google's UK Sales and Agencies team.

In August 2022, according to her claim, she was contacted by a female client who said that, during a business lunch, a manager in the team had boasted about the number of black women he had had sex with.

He said "he and his wife were swingers" and also described how they had sex with two women they met on the beach on holiday, according to summary notes of Google's investigation submitted to court.

The client said the conversation was unprompted and happened in front of his line manager who did nothing to stop him, describing their behaviour as "disgusting," in court documents.

Woodall reported the client's concerns to her boss Matt Bush, then managing director of the agency team, and Google opened an internal investigation into the manager's conduct, it adds.

While this investigation was underway, Woodall raised a second complaint from another female client who alleged the same manager had shown her a "picture of his wife's vagina" while scrolling through photos on his phone, according to her claim.