I am Matthew Taylor.
How do I come across as a person, according to my witness statement? Be honest, true and critical. Obsessed Honest reading of your own statement , not a verdict on your soul and not a medical or legal judgment. How you want to come across A decent father and former military policeman. A citizen who noticed a politician’s expenses, asked awkward questions, and then got hunted. A writer whose work is public-interest commentary. Someone forced into self-representation, stripped of tools, and driven into anxiety by police and an online pack. You return often to good character, children, lost work, and the idea that you only speak because others attack first. That self-portrait is consistent. It is also only half of what the document shows. How a cold reader actually meets you Persistent to the point of compulsion. The statement is 188 pages of the same loop: slight, report, arrest, email, exhibit, new slight. You do not drop a subject. When a court, the CPS, or Veritas Justice gives you a...
