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Affinity Water

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1 out of 5 stars

Negligent, Incompetent and brazenly CRIMINAL

Affinity Water caused damage to my property, when they negligently destroyed about 200 yards of public highway (a main Trunk Road) outside my house. They pretended that they had no leaks while their water main was continually leaking, but they just couldn’t / wouldn’t find their leaks for YEARS. They refused to accept responsibility, so I took them to Court. Barnet Council’s contractors reconstructed the highway, which cost the tax-payer at least £361K. One carriageway was closed to traffic for ten weeks and completely reconstructed, causing extensive traffic congestion. There were eight separate leaks on AW’s main. Affinity Water offered the council £10k to cover the damage, which was refused. Another cause of the highway damage was that Virgin Media had run their TV cable ducts though the highway by simply cutting through the steel-reinforced concrete slab, within 6” of the surface at times. Barnet Council (as the Highway Authority) employ “Highways Inspectors” but they evidently didn’t notice anything amiss. Ha Ha ! The Court ORDERED all parties to disclose all relevant documents. However, Affinity Water **forgot** to disclose anything at all relating to the highway collapse in the previous year (not even THEIR OWN survey, which they paid for, to find out the cause of the highway collapse, nor their memo admitting partial responsibility, nor letters from the council warning of the dangerous state of the road). Affinity Water made a false declaration, signed by Tim Monod, AW’s then Head of Legal, (he’s currently Director of Legal & Regulation), to affirm that they had disclosed all documents, although in fact, they had withheld ALL relevant evidence. Surely a “Head of Legal” would have known that he was committing a criminal offence. At the time, the Council were SUEING Affinity Water for £128K for destroying the highway. Surely a “Head of Legal” would have known they were being sued ? (Barnet Council got £193K from Transport for London, by describing the emergency reconstruction as “routine maintenance”, so they didn’t sue for the whole £361K). Strangely but coincidentally, Barnet Council also **forgot** to disclose any of the hundreds of documents they held regarding the highway collapse. To do anything, or fail to do anything, intending to influence the outcome of legal proceedings is known as Perverting the Course of Justice and is a Criminal and Imprison-able offence. There is no time-limit or “Statute of Limitations”. The CPS guidance on section 3 of the Fraud Act, says that the criminal offence of Fraud by failing to disclose information, occurs when the (offender): “failed to disclose information to another person, when he was under a legal duty to disclose that information, dishonestly intending, by that failure to make a gain, or cause a loss”. Having successfully scuppered my claim, AW decided to extort as much money as they could from me. They would have wanted over £20K from me in costs, but for several legal reasons, they only got under £1,800. This is legally known as FRAUD, contrary to the Fraud Act 2006, S2 & 3. & THEY STILL HAVE MY MONEY. After signing for receipt of my cheque by Special Delivery, Affinity Water LOST THE CHEQUE and told their solicitors I had not paid. Without my knowledge they got a temporary Charge on my house. I first knew about this when I got notice of the Charge from the Land Registry. I offered to send them a replacement cheque when they had removed the charge, but this wasn’t acceptable, so there was another court hearing, for which Affinity Water wanted to charge me additional costs. I presented the evidence to the Court that AW had withheld, but they say they’ve decided not to follow the rules regarding false statements ! Remember, NO-ONE is above the law, Right ? The Police can’t be bothered to investigate, the Attorney General, the CPS and DPP don’t want to get involved and I can’t afford a private prosecution. I’ve told Affinity Water they’ve committed criminal offences but they say that if I repeat my allegations to anyone, they will take action against me for defamation. I have not paid Affinity Water for water services since 2014 (8 years ago) - They keep sending me water bills and I DON’T PAY. They can’t legally shut my water off. They seem reluctant to take me to court again. I can’t think why. The local newspaper is a wet rag. If any genuine journalists read this, and would like to run a news story on a Criminal Water Company, I would be more than happy to provide absolute proof of everything above. (and more). I’m not hard to find - @MartinR16007083.