[2024] UKUT 250 (AAC)

In this section we summarise JW’s evidence on more controversial matters and explain why, on the whole, we accept her evidence. As a backdrop to what follows, we generally found JW to be credible; it seemed to us that she was doing her best at the hearing to tell the truth; there was corroboration in the more-contemporaneous documentation for a good deal of what she said. On some matters, JW’s evidence was also corroborated by that of Ms Fletcher (to whose evidence we also accorded weight, as she too presented herself to the hearing for cross examination, and seemed to us generally credible). All this does not, of course, mean that we take as “proven”, everything that JW (or indeed Ms Fletcher) had to say: JW obviously had a personal interest in interpreting the events of, and leading up to, 14 June 2022 a certain way; and the events in question had occurred two years before the hearing, allowing memory to fade; we therefore reviewed her evidence critically, and noted with care the extent to which it was corroborated.