55. Letter to the Commissioner from
Neighbour 1 (Constituency), 9 June 2010
I acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 18 April
(which, for some unknown reason, I did not in fact receive until
the middle of May) and apologise for the delay in replying.
Having read the content of your letter, I am amazed
and astonished by the alarming inaccuracies of the comments made
by Nadine Dorries and therefore respond as follows:
- The reference to not seeing us more than a handful
of times during the course of a two year period is totally incorrect.
She may not have actually engaged in conversation more than a
handful of times but she most certainly saw us and we saw her
on numerous occasions either outside her front door, by her car
or in her courtyard which adjoined ours.
- The ridiculous comment she makes about our house
not having any view of hers is unbelievable. As you will see from
the enclosed plan and photos,[234]
the properties are terraced Georgian houses. Her front door was
immediately next to our kitchen window and therefore we could
not only see her coming and going but, because of the nature in
which she and her family noisily closed the front door at all
times of the day and night we could also hear them in both our
kitchen and our bedroom which is above the kitchen.
- Nadine's bedroom at the rear of her property
directly overlooked our front door and courtyard and therefore
we were always aware when she was in residence. (Rather strangely
our front door is in fact at the rear of the property with access
from [name of road]). From our courtyard we could also see into
her dining room.
- [Address] is in fact our studio with a guest
bedroom and bathroom above. Nadine's master bedroom and bathroom
adjoined this and in fact her en
suite bathroom was above the studio and
due to very poor sound proofing, we could hear whenever she or
her family used the bathroom.
- The comments regarding our French home are totally
incorrect. We have only ever owned the one small property which,
as stated in our previous letter, we purchased at the end of 2008.
- As to Nadine's reference to us spending a long
period of time in Portugal between October and December last year,
this is farcical and totally incorrect. We did in fact go to Portugal
for one week from 1st to 8th October for our honeymoon! From 8
October to just before Christmas (11 weeks to be precise) we were
in constant residence in [name of town in constituency].
I apologise for the length of this letter however
both my wife and I feel absolutely infuriated by the lack of truth
and the extraordinary inaccuracies in her response. We sincerely
hope that her parliamentary research is a great deal more accurate!
I trust the above will help you with your continuing
inquiries.
9 June 2010
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