[2025] EWHC 2684 (KB)

As an overview I gained very little assistance from any of the evidence concerning conversations or meetings at the City Club. As with the evidence of Mrs Breeze (which I shall briefly consider in due course) it is difficult to see why the evidence was presented to the Court as even taken at its highest the content did not materially advance the Claimants’ case on the two causes of action pleaded. Indeed it was a theme of this evidence that the officers concerned believed (and in one case still believed post trial) in the Claimants’ guilt. Whether any officer was unprofessional in what he said in expressing a view about the Claimant’s guilt may be matter for complaint (and complaints were made and investigated and to a degree upheld) but in my view it did not impact on the central issues in the case. Ms Morris’s suggestion during cross-examination that the officers were “trying to alienate Mr Breeze from his support group” was in my view fanciful. Despite this overview given it was produced I shall set out the evidence.

It was pleaded that in the summer of 2007 DC Baker discussed details of Operation Meridian with club members Victor Miller and Steve Pointer on separate occasions, in particular prior to the Claimants being charged and that DC Baker informed Mr Miller that Mr Breeze would be taken to Court and found guilty and sent to prison.