After serious misconduct issues emerge, organisations often react as though the behaviour appeared overnight, but it rarely does. More often, there were multiple warning signs.

Comments that were excused, standards that slipped and concerns that were raised informally but never addressed. In some cases, formal action was initiated, only for outcomes to be diluted, delayed or disappear altogether.

The final incident tends to receive all the attention, but the pattern that preceded it seldom does. By the time behaviour becomes impossible to ignore, it has frequently been tolerated for far longer than anyone wants to admit.

The conduct wasn't a surprise. It was a pattern.