The Tyche emails
Dr Wright denied the authenticity of emails from him at the email address cwright@tyche.co.uk. His account can be seen from the following exchange {{Day7/109:9} - {Day7/110:3}}. From that point, every time he was taken to a Tyche email he denied it was from him}:
‘Q. {L11/54/1}, please. This is an email dated 25 November 2015, ostensibly from you, “cwright@tyche.co.uk", to Mr MacGregor and others. Do you say that this is another non-genuine email, something you didn't write?
A. I didn't write it, no. Tyche is a British company belonging to Rob that I never worked for.
Q. So all this content saying -- referring to the original White Paper being a good start and engaging with Mr MacGregor's ideas, that's all fake content, is it?
A. I've no idea what it is.
Q. Are you aware who supposedly created these non-genuine documents, Dr Wright?
A. Probably someone at Tyche.
Q. Who are you fingering for this?
A. I've no idea.’
Thus, Dr Wright denied that he had ever worked for Tyche Consulting Ltd. He blamed an unknown third party for faking his email, but could not say who that was or why they had done so. Furthermore, as with so many of the Tyche emails, it is implausible that this email was faked, since it is authentic to 2015 and it says precisely what one would have expected Dr Wright to say. As COPA submitted, it even includes his characteristic mistake of spelling Dr Back’s name as “Black”.
However, there are a number of apparently authentic documents which evidence that he did work for Tyche:
First, there is a Tyche Consulting Contract bearing Dr Wright’s signature {L10/426/1}. When this was put to him he could only claim that his signature had been forged {Day8/5:22)} - {Day8/7:7}, but did not identify who might have done it or why.
Second, his employment with the company was recorded in the Implementation Deed of January 2016 {L11/285/10} giving effect to the Heads of Terms he had agreed in June 2015. He had already admitted that that was a genuine document, so he could only say that he had not read it and that the reference to his employment with Tyche Consulting Ltd was wrong {Day8/6:15} - {Day8/16:10}.
Third, contemporaneous emails show Mr Matthews and Tyche Consulting Ltd arranging Dr Wright’s salary package and demonstrate that this employment was used for Dr Wright’s visa to move to the UK as he left Australia in late 2015 {see the email at {L10/385/1}}.
Mr Matthews confirmed that Dr Wright had indeed been employed by Tyche Consulting Ltd and that this employment was crucial for the visa {{Day11/144:19} - {Day11/145:24}}, and provided independent details about the arrangements as explained in more detail below.
Fourth, there is also in disclosure a documentary record of a TUPE transfer of Dr Wright’s employment from Tyche Consulting Ltd to The Workshop Technologies with effect from 1 February 2016 (demonstrating that he was employed by Tyche Consulting Ltd previously) {L11/329/1}, although this document was not put to him in cross-examination.
In total, Dr Wright disclosed around 20 emails from cwright@tyche.co.uk, without once mentioning that these were not his own emails. Furthermore, the DRD identifies this as one of his email addresses {K/2/25}.
In my judgment, the evidence shows that Dr Wright was lying when he said none of the emails sent from cwright@tyche.co.uk were sent by him.