[2025] EWHC 2637 (Fam)

I have no hesitation in rejecting all of these allegations. I regard the father as a wholly unreliable witness and there is not a shred of reliable evidence to substantiate his claims. I give no weight to the FIR he has produced. Given all my findings about the father’s dishonest conduct of this litigation I am not satisfied that it is a genuine document and in any event it merely contains allegations; it does not establish their truth.

Some of his claims, such as the plot with the marriage arranger to murder him, the murder of MGM’s first husband and the mother’s repeated attempts to poison him were far-fetched and clearly invented by him.

I am unable to find that the mother’s family are members of a ‘notorious gang’. It is not difficult for me to find, however, that her brothers are capable of meting out serious violence, as the incident on 26 December 2020 demonstrates.