A woman left paralysed in the Manchester Arena bombing claims she lost her job for being off sick.

Julie Thomas was left with shrapnel embedded in her body following the attack on May 22.

The 34-year-old says that two days after the atrocity, bosses contacted her asking if she knew when she would be back at work, the Mirror reports.

Earlier this month, on the day doctors told the conveyancing executive she may never walk again because of her injuries, Dickinson Parker Hill solicitors said her job was being made redundant – despite her being signed off sick until October.

Julie, who now has to use a wheelchair, said: “I was in tears.

“It was the trauma of what the doctor along with this message, which was effectively sacking me.

“None of this was my fault. I just went to a concert with a friend to enjoy myself.”

Julie, who had three operations to remove bolts and shrapnel, said she felt she had no choice but to resign and left this month.

She is bringing a constructive dismissal and discrimination case against the firm for ‘unreasonable bullying and harassment’.

Julie said that bosses text her to ask if she could talk about work nine days after the bombing.

She had just had her third operation. Julie said she was told earlier this month ‘effectively your position has been made redundant’, with an offer to pay up her four weeks’ notice.

In the letter dated September 6, seen by the The Daily Mirror, she was told her position could not be kept open ‘into the long term’ and that, in the firm’s belief and in accordance with its policy, six months was sufficient sick leave.

Julie, from Liverpool, was also told if she did come back, the firm’s building in Ormskirk, Lancashire, would cause problems for her - leaving her with the option of a downstairs office ‘and a kettle’.

She said the nearest disabled toilet is in a nearby pub.

Julie said: “It has built up since I was lying in hospital. The text messages, the letters, knowing the state I was in.

“I gave them my all, I loved working there, and they have treated me like a number rather a person.

“It is humiliating and degrading. I felt I had no choice.

Trade union official Ronnie Cunningham is helping Julie with her case.

“Julie didn’t have the flu, she was in a major terrorist attack and thankfully survived,” he said.

“We will say she was sacked and that will be for the tribunal to decide.”

Medics expected Julie to have some feeling in her leg by now, but she has none.

The firm, Dickinson Parker Hill, declined to comment last night.

It is understood bosses do not accept Julia’s claims, having offered her a consultation period.

Despite her paralysis, Julie is working towards her goal of hopefully one day walking again.

She was caught up in the Manchester Arena blast when she left the gig with a friend and her daughter.