Photographing Cars

Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any photograph taken on the occasion described by the second and third witnesses. The CompactFlash cards in the cameras seized by the police were blank on their return, three hard disks in computers seized by the police did not have the files either, and a fourth hard disk had been rendered unreadable.

The photograph above shows vehicles blocking a shared access area in front of my garage. I do not have a photograph of the occasion on which four vehicles were parked in that area, nor of other occasions on which visitors to the Mabrys blocked the top end of my drive completely. When I complained of this in Eastbourne County Court, Mabry said that I could have knocked on his door if I wanted to get my car out.

As far as I remember, the occasion on which I was observed by the two witnesses featured two cars which had been parked side by side just behind where the red vehicle is positioned in the photograph above. There was no one visible in the cars. Some people were standing further down the road, with Mabry among them. As I was taking photographs, Mabry ran up the road towards me, shouting. I went back indoors before he came too close.

The purpose of the photography was as a disincentive or a threat to Mabry, who had no right to block what is a private shared access area for three properties at the end of the cul de sac, though he had done so on countless occasions with cars, and on some occasions with lorries, or with building materials which were left there for weeks.