[2025] EWHC 2684 (KB)

As I have set out there is no reference to the statement of Ms Gaisford within the summary. This is a surprising omission and her statement includes comments clearly supportive of the Claimants. That the statement was ‘positive’ to the Claimants was pointed out to DS Brownsell in cross-examination (and that she provided evidence about staffing) but he was not specifically pressed about the absence of any reference to Ms Gaisford in his summary. In part as a result of this on the evidence before me DS Brownsell has provided no explanation for this omission. I therefore have to consider its omission against the totality of the case summary and the MG6 (which included reference to other evidence which was supportive of the Claimants), and was accompanied by a large bundle of all the statements the whole of the cross-examination of DS Brownsell and the balance of the evidence. My conclusion, on balance, is that it was not due to a deliberate attempt to suppress evidence or mislead Mr Tarrant.