Date of Incident: 18 September 2020 (Date of Disclosure)

Incident Type: The Solicitor's Betrayal: The Willful Failure to Utilise Exculpatory Mental Health Evidence.

Perpetrator(s): The Crown Prosecution Service (M. Charlesworth), with the gross professional negligence of ABV Solicitors (Miren Patel / Rishi Verma).

Associated Case: 43SW0536820

Details of Incident:

On this date, the CPS served a "Police Schedule of Relevant Non-Sensitive Unused Material" (MG6C) upon my legal representatives at the time, ABV Solicitors.

• Item 5 on this official schedule explicitly listed a "Letter Paul WHITMORE," a mental health nurse.
• The description of this letter confirmed that Mr. Whitmore believed my "mental health to have played a significant role in his behaviour" and that I "may have lacked capacity."

This is definitive exculpatory evidence, capable of undermining the entire prosecution case by negating the necessary mens rea (guilty mind).

Despite being in possession of this schedule, my own solicitors, ABV, failed to act upon this critical evidence. They failed to make it the cornerstone of my defense, failed to challenge the prosecution on it, and ultimately allowed me to be processed by the system as a criminal, leading directly to the coerced plea and the illegitimate conviction. This was a catastrophic dereliction of their professional duty.

My Perception of Purpose & Impact:

This document is the final, missing piece of the historical puzzle. It proves that the state knew its case was fundamentally flawed and that I was a vulnerable, unwell man. It proves that the failure was not just on the part of the police and CPS, but on the part of my own legal counsel. This betrayal is the direct cause of the subsequent years of suffering and the coerced plea. It is the foundational evidence for both the appeal against the conviction and the subsequent High Court claim for damages against all parties, including the solicitors who failed me.

Rishi Verma