A joiner will not get a penny in compensation from her National Lottery millionaire boss after enduring two years of sex taunts at work.

Michelle Goulden, 24, combined her work as a carpenter for a firm owned by £1.6m jackpot winner Brian Hicks with part-time modelling.

But she found herself a target for Mr Hicks's managing director son, David, 28, who fired sexual jibes at her on a daily basis.

Michelle said she would feel sick at the prospect of going to work but was sacked when she complained.

An employment tribunal found in her favour and ruled she should receive £9,200 in compensation. But it is unlikely she will receive a penny because the firm has gone into voluntary liquidation.

A Newcastle employment tribunal ordered Mr Hicks's building firm, BDH Contracts, to pay Michelle the cash after hearing how she suffered years of sexual taunts.

She was employed by Mr Hicks, 53, as the first woman apprentice joiner at the firm, in Seghill, Northumberland. She was sacked in November 2000, six months before her apprenticeship was due to end.

She launched a claim of sexual discrimination and unfair dismissal, and the tribunal unanimously agreed she had suffered sexual harassment from David Hicks, of Wills Buildings, Coast Road, Newcastle.

The tribunal also said the father, of Bamburgh Court, The Cloisters, South Gosforth, Newcastle, had failed to put a stop to the problem and had dismissed Michelle instead.

David Hicks did not deny his use of foul language, but he described it as normal workplace banter, and his father claimed she was dismissed because of a downturn in business.

Michelle, of Killingworth, North Tyneside, has since qualified as a joiner.

She said: "I have spent £1,500 on legal advice and I had to represent myself at the tribunal. Now it looks as though I won't get a penny of the compensation, and that is appalling."

BDH Contracts lodged an appeal against the tribunal's ruling but it was withdrawn when the company ceased trading last month.

Ian King, a corporate recovery director for accountants Tenon Recovery, of Sunderland, said: "My understanding is that Michelle will have an unsecured claim against the company and there is likely to be insufficient funds to pay the dividend."

A spokesman for Mr Hicks said: "He does not wish to comment. He is contacting his solicitor.