An employee who said he was bombarded with inappropriate messages from disgraced former council leader Cammy Day has claimed his complaints were dismissed by bosses.
The former Edinburgh City Council employee claims they received scores of messages on social media from Day over an eight-year period.
The new claims come after Day quit last month, hours after we revealed allegations that he sexually harassed vulnerable Ukrainians fleeing war.
Now the former council worker has revealed no action was taken despite flagging up how messages from Day made them uncomfortable.
The ex-employee said: “He was messaging me for years, right up until two weeks before the story came out in the Sunday Mail about him texting Ukrainian refugees.
“I was left to put up with it. They did nothing. They didn’t seem surprised when I told them. Their reaction was basically, ‘Oh, here’s another one.’ That’s what bothered me – they did nothing to address it.
“At the time I spoke to my line manager. I said it in the hope she would say something to him.
“I also mentioned it to my manager’s manager and it was just laughed off as if ‘that’s just the way he is.’ I heard stories about others who had similar experiences before me.
“They knew it had happened before and they knew I was now going through the same thing but nothing was done.”
The source, who no longer works for the council, said they were 24 when they met Day – then deputy leader and nearly 20 years their senior. They began to receive messages in 2017.
They said: “Cammy would always be in and out of the office. He was always acting flirty and a bit creepy.”
The employee said shortly after getting the council job, Day found them on Snapchat.
They said: “He got hold of my Snapchat and I don’t know how. He was always hinting at sexual contact. If I posted anything on my Snapchat story, he’d respond saying, ‘Looking stunning’ and when I worked for the council he would often invite me to his office for drinks.
“I played dumb and said things like, ‘Oh, is everyone going for drinks after work?’ so he would have to invite other people. I knew he wanted it to be just me going.”
On several occasions the staff member said they were invited to Day’s caravan at Seton Sands but rejected the offer.

They said: “I stay not far from Seton Sands and every time he was there he’d ask me to come down for a drink. It wasn’t overly sexual but … we weren’t friends, so why would he invite a random person from work to a caravan?
“It was creepy and weird, not something someone in his position should have been doing.”
After leaving the council in 2019, the victim claimed Day kept sending messages although less frequently.
He quit as Edinburgh City Council leader on December 9 but remains an independent councillor. Police are investigating claims of inappropriate behaviour.
Council chiefs also announced they were reviewing the handling of five previous complaints made about Day.
Officials are also looking into whether he is acting as a landlord and benefiting financially from anyone living in any of his properties.
A council spokeswoman said: “The council has agreed to carry out an independent review into its handling of the concerns raised. A report recommending how this should be carried out, and by whom, will be considered shortly.”
Day did not respond to requests for comment.
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