FB v KS

Victoria Butler-Cole KC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court ____________________

Mr Mani Singh Basi instructed by Rayden Solicitors for the applicant Ms Katherine Dunseath instructed by Michelmores LLP. for the respondent Hearing dates: 25-27 March 2025 ____________________

KS says that FB was controlling and had ' a real issue with me having any female friends, colleagues or acquaintances�if she believes that I have looked at or interacted with another woman, she becomes extremely angry and is domestically violent to me, both physically and verbally'. He also says that she would become angry and abusive if she felt he was not paying her sufficient respect or doing what she asked. This is borne out by contemporaneous messages and photos of injuries sustained by KS in 2023 and 2024. For example:

i) In March 2023, FB sent a tirade of expletive-laden messages to KS because he had been looking at football scores on his phone instead of ' checking on me or what I need' . When confronted with these messages in oral evidence, FB's response was to say that she was pregnant at the time.

iii) In June 2024, FB became very angry because KS had sent an entirely innocuous message to a female work colleague. She suggested in oral evidence that she was actually cross because he was spending too much time on his phone, but the contemporaneous messages clearly show that she was angry because she thought KS had given the work colleague too much praise. She told KS he would regret it, and there are photos of his bruises and scratches that correspond with the timing of this argument.