A Christian doctor is claiming unfair dismissal because he claims he was sacked for emailing a prayer to colleagues to raise their spirits. Dr David Drew says he was even reprimanded for sending a cheery Christmas text to another member of staff at Walsall Manor Hospital, West Mids. The whistleblower went to tribunal after he became deeply concerned about practices at Walsall Manor Hospital, West Mids, in 2008. In a witness statement to an Employment Tribunal in Birmingham the 64-year-old claimed there were two occasions where children had been sexually assaulted on the ward and one where a child had died after a consultant let him go home. Dr Drew claimed after he complained about the consultant who oversaw the case he was promptly stripped of his role as clinical director. Another investigation was later carried out into Dr Drew’s conduct after he claims he complained about the behaviour of a ‘very rude nurse’. And he was finally dismissed after he failed to accept one of the recommendations of the investigation which ordered that he 'refrain from using religious references in his professional communications verbal or written'. Dr Drew, who is a practicing christian, admits that he emailed a prayer by St Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, to colleagues on one occasion to try and motivate the department. During it's investigation the trust noted that Dr Drew had sent an 'unwelcome' text message to a colleague on Christmas day. Dr Drew was first excluded in April 2009, he was finally dismissed three days before Christmas in 2010 and he lost his appeal in April last year. Dr Drew was qualified as a doctor at Bristol University in 1972; he trained as a paediatrician at Birmingham Children’s Hospital until 1977 and then went to Indochina to set up medical services in refugee camps in Northern Thailand in an American aid organisation.