Marjan Jahangiri, Europe’s first female professor of cardiac surgery, says she is traumatised every time she gets a package ALEX LENTATI/EVENING STANDARD/EYEVINE

A leading heart surgeon was posted a dead animal and a decapitated doll as part of “campaign of bullying and harassment” after she raised concerns about unsafe care, a court has been told.

Marjan Jahangiri, professor of cardiac surgery, claimed at the High Court that St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, was “an environment that has appeared to be more interested in cover-ups and petty vendettas than patient welfare” as she demanded to be reinstated to her job at the cardiac surgery unit.

An internal report into the unit concluded that “toxic” bickering between rival camps of surgeons resulted in the death of patients, with staff saying that “dark forces” were at work, The Times reported last month.

The Times’s report of rivalry at St George’s hospital

The professor was one of two…