“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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In re Complicity: Police Silence, Westminster’s Witnesses, and the Secondary Victimisation of a Mother


🪞 SWANK LEGAL REFLECTION

Filed: 23 August 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-POL-LA-COMPLICITY
PDF Filename: 2025-08-23_Addendum_Westminster_PoliceSecondaryVictimisation.pdf
Summary: When the Police fail to shield victims and instead deliver them to social work inquisitors, it ceases to be safeguarding. It becomes complicity.

I. What Happened

The Director made police reports — multiple, logged, referenced — for harassment and hate crime. Instead of protection, she received betrayal.

  • The Metropolitan Police ignored her complaints.

  • Westminster scavenged the very men named in those complaints and rebranded them as “character witnesses.”

  • A victim’s words became ammunition; her safety, a bargaining chip; her abuse, a file note.

II. What This Reflection Establishes

That the Police–Local Authority partnership has inverted its duties:

  • Protectors became persecutors.

  • Safeguarding became surveillance.

  • Reports of hate crime became a shopping list for hostile testimony.

This is not failure. This is orchestration.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because evidence should protect the victim, not feed her oppressors. Because the law was not written for abusers to be recast as witnesses. Because when Westminster and the Police link arms, it is not child protection — it is retaliation wrapped in a safeguarding form.

IV. Violations

  • Article 3 ECHR – Degrading treatment: forcing victims to see their abusers rebranded as credible.

  • Article 8 ECHR – Family life dismantled by biased testimony.

  • Article 14 ECHR – Victim of hate crime treated less favourably for her disability and dissent.

  • Children Act 1989, s.1 – Welfare principle inverted; abusers privileged, children destabilised.

  • Equality Act 2010 – Reports weaponised instead of accommodated.

  • Bromley’s Family Law (14th ed., p.640): safeguarding cannot be a cudgel; yet here it is.

V. SWANK’s Position

This is not the work of guardians. It is the choreography of complicity.

Where police inaction meets local authority intrusion, the victim is abandoned twice over: first by the law, then by the welfare state.

SWANK calls it by its proper name: institutional retaliation, dressed as protection, filed as coercion.

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