QB-2018-004997 - [2025] EWHC 2301 (KB)

Other material inconsistencies

One of the Facebook messages contained an offer from the Claimant to her mother in the following terms,

“When you get a free weekend and fancy some manual labour let me know…I was thinking about laying some of the dreaded plastic boards in the horse field before the bad weather comes..but no idea how to do it”

Her mother replied that she would and doing the work in September was discussed. In her 12^th July 2025 statement the Claimant accepted that she did intend to do this work but said she would have done it on her own but for her shoulder injury.

The Claimant was asked about her world para athletic form completed in April 2023. On its first page she has signed it dated to confirm that it was a true account. On the second page is a section entitled “Health condition as described by the athlete”. The information recorded under that is “Nerve damage to brachial plexus”. The Claimant accepted that she knew that she had not damaged her brachial plexus but said that she did not believe that those were her words and she did not see the form. On the same part of the form was a box entitled “Athlete’s description of primary impairment impacting sport.” The recorded answer is “no left arm power due to no movement”. This form was of course filled in after she had demonstrated the movement on the video. The Claimant was asked about that and replied that she could not remember what she had said and that it was their wording.

The Facebook messages include a reference to the Claimant having booked some work with Amazon. It had been her evidence that she had done no work and she was in receipt of benefits on that basis. In her 12^th July 2025 statement the Claimant explained that this work was a one-off trial day which did not work out and was something she had forgotten about.

The Claimant told Ms Gouldstone in 2021 that she was limited to part-time sedentary employment managing three to four hours per day and working three days per week. This was the narrative basis of her claim for loss of earnings in her schedule of loss signed with a statement of truth and dated 5 May 2022. During the investigatory interview with Peninsula on 20 May 2022, the Claimant stated that she worked full-time hours and that her pay slips would demonstrate that.