[2024] UKUT 277 (AAC)

Ms Hartley argued that it was extremely implausible that AR’s account of sexual intimacy between him and HA (as recorded in the ‘investigatory interview’ with AR on 25 July 2022) had been fabricated by HA’s employer; it was much more likely that AR had given the account attributed to him. Ms Hartley submitted that the account is not suggestive of someone who was “out of touch” with reality: CJ at one point repeats AR’s evidence back to him, and AR corrected certain details; ER’s evidence also suggested that AR was able to recall things accurately; and HA’s own evidence was that he had had a conversation with AR about AR’s experience as a young man.