King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court

J90PE914 & K00LU633 - [2025] EWHC 2640 (KB)

Fecha: 13-Oct-2025

Behaviour

20.

Over the trial, with 19 days of evidence and the various communications that have been received from Ms Saunders, including after the evidence was closed, it is clear that Ms Saunders is simply unable to accept certain facts. She seems to believe that if she continues to repeat a certain narrative, regardless of whether it has any basis in truth, then others will have to accept it.

21.

Examples of this include:

(1)

Her insistence of the existence of another water pipe under the golf course even though there is no evidence of such a pipe ever existing.

(2)

Her insistence that members of the public are not entitled to access the Jenny Wisson wood despite all the evidence establishing that the section 106 agreement is still in force, and Ms Saunders entering into the Lease in July 2003 with both the planning permission and section 106 agreement being included in the schedule to the Lease.

(3)

Her refusal to accept that she was guilty of assault, a section 5 Public Order Act offence and an offence contrary to section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act, with respect to the now deceased Mr Warren, and her refusal to accept that she was guilty of an assault against Ms Beresford- Ambridge. Despite her convictions and failed appeals she will not accept her guilt.

(4)

Her refusal to accept that this litigation had an adverse impact upon Mr Warren despite the coroner’s finding that a “long-running legal dispute which had a significant impact on his mental wellbeing. In April 2023, following the imposition of an injunction and with a further court case pending, Neil experienced thoughts of suicide …In notes that were discovered after his death, Neil had outlined the significant toll that the ongoing litigation had on his mental state and it is probable that his worries over the forthcoming court case contributed more than minimally to his actions.” No-one is suggesting that this was anything but a reference to this current litigation.

(5)

Her failure to acknowledge that this litigation has been extremely stressful and damaging to the owners and occupiers of the lodges. In addition to the emotional and psychological damage, there has been considerable financial damage and some residents have been prescribed medication and are taking anti-depressants and sleeping tablets.

22.

Ms Saunders has shown a complete lack of empathy for the individual defendants who have been trapped into this litigation because Ms Saunders will not accept that (1) she may be wrong and (2) others are entitled to stand up to her and disagree with her views. When asked directly whether she had any regrets about this litigation she said “no I don’t, no” On the other hand, she became extremely emotional both when it transpired that her witness, Mr Robert Verdier, did not accept his second statement, and when mentioning Jenny Wisson.

23.

Ms Saunders revealed her motivation in cutting off the water to the lodge owners, was to “chivvy them along” in order to force the first defendant to do what she wants. On 30 July 2022 she is recorded on dashcam footage as she shouts across “Well, wait till you got no water, because, you don’t, you haven’t won this case I can tell you.”

24.

Her absolute determination to get the outcome she wanted, regardless of whether she was correct or not, meant that she turned off the water supply on 23 May 2020, 18 November 2020, 24 January 2022, 24 February 2022, and 5 May 2022. She then damaged the pipework on 17 May 2022, alleging (wrongly) that it could not be reinstated; and then on 16 July 2022, when there was a red warning “risk to life” warning in place as the temperatures neared 40 degrees Celsius, Simon Jefferies and James Bradbury were instructed by Ms Saunders to “investigate” the trespass pipe which resulted in it being damaged and the water supply to the lodges being cut off for 10 days. This was particularly dangerous as, among the residents, were elderly and vulnerable individuals who were left without water during a dangerously hot period.