Bartolotti stays away – case collapses through No Evidence

Pippa Bartolotti 

Bartolotti's complaint of "defamation" collapsed when she failed to turn up to give evidence and face questions at the long-delayed Tribunal. 
A complainant has to give the specific wording that’s claimed to defame, not make a general accusation, said lawyer Damian McCarthy. Further, Bartolotti's failure to submit any written or verbal evidence of defamation meant that she failed to sustain her complaint.
Bartolotti gave the Tribunal a flimsy excuse for not attending - that she was engaged in the Gwent Green Party press launch. In fact, her role was speaking for a few minutes at 10.30, quite early enough to reach the Tribunal in Cardiff at 12.00. Rather than travel to the Tribunal, she spent the time making a video that was posted on Facebook just before 12.00 - 
a clear snub to Green Party legal procedures.

The Tribunal will announce its verdict within days.

The failure of Bartolotti’s complaint validates suspicions over her ‘hazy’ background, with periods in the security business and years unaccounted for, suspicions that her family company (Encrypta Electronics) engaged in nuclear weapons security devices and that Encrypta supplied military electronics, some contracted to AB Connectors of Abercynon. Encrypta Electronics conveniently went bankrupt in 2003, enabling Bartolotti’s ex-husband to take the patents and resume the business with another company (Unisto), while Bartolotti quit her job with the Welsh Government.  Perhaps it was "inappropriate" for a director of a bankrupt company to continue as a government 'business advisor'.