⟡ SWANK Dispatch ⟡
“They Always Threaten Court When You Mention Yours”
Filed: 31 May 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/EMAIL-THREAT/2025-05-31
📎 Download PDF – 2025-05-31_SWANK_Dispatch_Kirsty_Hornal_CoerciveThreat_Email_v_Westminster.pdf
I. Introduction: A Tactical Email, Not a Safeguarding Act
On 31 May 2025, Kirsty Hornal — Senior Practitioner at Westminster Children’s Services — sent an unsolicited email announcing her intent to consult legal teams and consider “whether this needs to be taken to court.”
There was no safeguarding trigger.
No statutory process.
No professional protocol.
There was only retaliation — cloaked in pastel.
II. The SWANK Position: This Was Not Support
This email was sent in response to the Director of SWANK London Ltd. filing multiple formal legal complaints, including a civil N1 claim against Westminster for disability discrimination and safeguarding retaliation.
To then send a vaguely threatening legal escalation, without a multi-agency meeting, external oversight, or lawful threshold, is not just misconduct — it is institutional coercion via Outlook.
The subject line? “Support and Assessment.”
The content? A soft-voiced threat.
The context? Weeks of formal resistance and airtight documentation.
III. Procedural Breaches and Disability Violations
The email blatantly ignored the Director’s documented disability communication adjustment — which legally mandates written-only contact, and forbids any verbal or coercive interference due to:
PTSD from prior safeguarding misuse
Muscle tension dysphonia
Eosinophilic Asthma aggravated by distress
Instead of respecting these adjustments, Kirsty’s message compounded the harm.
The result?
PTSD resurgence
Respiratory distress
Further legal escalation
This email is now logged, archived, and submitted as part of formal proceedings.
IV. SWANK’s Judicial Note
A safeguarding officer who ignores medical adjustments in order to hint at legal consequences is not safeguarding anyone.
She is performing institutional theatre — poorly.
This email is not just unethical. It is weaponised procedure — and its subtext has been transcribed, footnoted, and filed.
⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.
To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.
This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.
Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.
© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.