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Disability, Gas Exposure, and the Criminalisation of Collapse


⟡ They Knew There Was CCTV. They Chose Not to Get It. ⟡

Filed: 22 May 2025
Reference: SWANK/MET/2025-CCTV-BREACH
📎 Download PDF — 2025-05-22_SWANK_MetPolice_IOPC_CCTVFailure_DisabilityTrauma_CriminalAllegation_StThomas.pdf

I. The Footage Would Have Cleared It. They Never Asked for It.

This formal complaint was submitted to both the Metropolitan Police and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), following their failure to secure time-sensitive CCTV from St Thomas’ Hospital — footage that would have captured:

  • A disabled mother in visible medical distress

  • A child abandoned by hospital staff

  • Multiple criminal allegations later weaponised against her

  • The systemic negligence of a healthcare setting posing as sanctuary

The footage existed.
The police knew it.
They did nothing — except file the incident against her name.

II. Disability as Pretext, Not Protection

This letter details:

  • Documented disability (Eosinophilic Asthma, muscle dysphonia, trauma collapse)

  • A documented gas exposure event

  • A child left in distress without medical staff present

  • No safeguarding breach by the parent — yet all suspicion aimed at her

Meanwhile:

  • Police failed to interview staff

  • Failed to secure CCTV

  • Failed to prevent reputational harm

  • But managed to “note concerns” with suspicious enthusiasm

This wasn’t policing.
It was a preloaded narrative dressed in badge logic.

III. Why SWANK Filed It

Because CCTV isn’t just footage — it’s protection for the truth.
Because omitting retrieval is a selective forgetting that harms only one side.
Because when you're a disabled woman, the burden is always to prove you weren’t already guilty — even while gasping for air.

Let the record show:

  • The footage was accessible

  • The officers were informed

  • The deadline passed

  • And SWANK — recorded the inaction as evidence

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not believe that oversight is neutral.
We do not permit post-incident amnesia to replace accountability.
We do not accept “lack of footage” when failure to collect it was strategic.

Let the record show:

The child was harmed.
The mother collapsed.
The footage was lost.
The system protected itself.
And SWANK — filed every second they tried to erase.

This is not about CCTV.
It is about how institutions curate memory to protect themselves from truth.




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