[2025] EWHC 2684 (KB)

Mr Metzer also challenged Mr Brownsell about his references at various stages to “fraud” as opposed to “alleged fraud” and suggested that this revealed a closed mind at an early stage as to whether a fraud occurred or not. In my view there was nothing in the language used that underpins an assertion that before what had happened at Cawston Park was investigated, or at the outset of the investigation, the officers concerned had a closed mind (as to guilt).