While I am forced to be absent from the CBW app, the Chair (Mr Stephen Thompson), has repeatedly made statements about me which I feel are defamatory and are completely untrue and unevidenced. I consider these wild and groundless statements to be a smear campaign, and make a fair election impossible. My solicitor has written to Mr Thompson (5.2.23) and offered him the opportunity to draw a line under these matters by a simple retraction and apology on the CBW app – unfortunately Mr Thompson has refused to do that and hence I am writing this letter in order to defend my reputation. I am not able to reply on the platform where the accusations against me were made as my CBW app account is closed. Mr Thompson enjoys legal insurance as the Chair of CBWRA, which residents are paying for, and which in my view is being seriously misused.

Below I reply to numerous instances of what I consider to be defamation by Mr Thompson Since May 2022, and clear up various other claims by Mr Thompson which in my view are not true.