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Chromatic v Westminster: In Re The Hearing That Wasn’t Served



The Care Order With No Transcript, No Notice, and No Shame

Procedural History of a Legal Ambush Carried Out in Velvet Silence


Filed Date: 24 June 2025

Reference Code: SWANK/FAMCOURT/0624-PROCEDURAL-HISTORY
Court Filename: 2025-06-24_SWANK_ProceduralHistory_CareOrderChallenge
One-line Summary: Formal timeline documenting the unlawful removal of four U.S. citizen children and the legal void left behind.


I. What Happened

This procedural history is not merely a sequence of dates—it is a forensic catalogue of judicial evasion. On 23 June 2025, four U.S. citizen children were removed without notice, court order disclosure, or even a whiff of procedural legitimacy.

The applicant, Polly Chromatic, was informed—after the fact—that a care order had been granted in a hearing she was neither invited to nor notified of. There is no transcript. There is no judgment. There is only silence, seizure, and post-hoc justification.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That on 23 June 2025, the state physically removed four American minors from their mother without providing any documentation, destination, or procedural grounds.

  • That on 24 June 2025, the applicant filed six separate legal and regulatory actions in response—none of which have been adequately answered.

  • That this timeline exposes a complete administrative failure to meet even the lowest standards of justice: presence, notice, and disclosure.

  • That the entire removal occurred under the guise of law, but in the absence of it.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because a mother should not have to reconstruct the legal history of her children's removal from outside the courtroom.

Because when there is no hearing notice, no judgment, no service, and no transcript, the term “care order” becomes a fiction—a euphemism for enforced disappearance.

Because when a disabled U.S. citizen is excluded from her own family law matter, the question is not “what went wrong,” but rather: how many rights had to be ignored to pull it off?

Because history is being rewritten while it’s happening. So SWANK is writing it down instead.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – Section 38 & 44

  • Human Rights Act 1998 – Articles 6 & 8

  • Equality Act 2010 – Sections 20 & 29

  • Family Procedure Rules – Part 12, Part 18

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Articles 3, 9

  • Public Law Standards – Notice, Service, Disclosure


V. SWANK’s Position

This is not a procedural history. It is an evidentiary indictment.

A timeline of what happens when the state forgets to follow its own script. When hearings occur without parties, and orders are implemented without being seen. When the very institutions entrusted with family protection become operatives of political retaliation.

There is no safeguarding here—only a stage play where the parent is never given a line.

SWANK London Ltd. has filed this record not for commentary, but for canonisation. What the court omits, we enshrine.


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Chromatic v Westminster: In Re The Threshold That Never Was



"You Can't Remove Children Without Saying Why"

A Third Formal Request for a Threshold That Still Doesn’t Exist


Filed Date: 3 July 2025

Reference Code: SWANK/ICO/THRESHOLD-REQUEST
Court Filename: 2025-07-03_Letter_Westminster_ICOThresholdDisclosureRequest
One-line Summary: Westminster was again asked to provide the statutory threshold for removing U.S. children—and again, did not reply.


I. What Happened

On 3 July 2025, SWANK London Ltd. issued its third formal letter to Westminster Children’s Services, demanding disclosure of the statutory threshold allegedly relied upon to justify the Interim Care Order (ICO) issued on 23 June 2025.

Addressed to Kirsty Hornal, Sam Brown, Sarah Newman, and Westminster Legal Services, the letter repeats a simple, lawful query: What is the legal basis for taking the children?

This follows two previous ignored requests dated 20 April and 27 June 2025. No statutory citation, no supporting documentation, and no lawful explanation has ever been provided. Not even the basic Section 38 threshold under the Children Act 1989 has been identified.

Meanwhile, the children remain separated from their mother. The local authority remains silent. And the silence has been deafening.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That Westminster has unlawfully withheld the legal rationale for a severe state intervention, despite three written requests.

  • That the procedural burden has been inverted: the parent must chase the authority for the justification of its own actions.

  • That this conduct, in context, appears not just negligent—but strategically evasive.

  • That institutional retaliation is disguised as safeguarding, and papered over with non-response.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because removing four American children without stating the threshold is not "intervention"—it is seizure without process.

Because this was not a formality—it was a statutory demand. And Westminster's refusal to answer reveals everything about the fragility of their position.

Because legal thresholds are not optional. They are not administrative flair. They are the only thing separating a lawful order from an unlawful act.

And because every unanswered letter becomes its own kind of evidence.


IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, Section 38 – Threshold for Interim Care Orders

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 6 – Right to a Fair Trial

  • Equality Act 2010 – Failure to make disability-related communication adjustments

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Article 9 (Separation from Parents)

  • Family Procedure Rules 2010 – Duty to disclose legal basis and grounds


V. SWANK’s Position

Westminster has made a choice: to act without explanation, to enforce without authority, and to retreat behind silence when questioned. That is not safeguarding. It is institutional misconduct in procedural drag.

This letter is the third—and final—courtesy request. What comes next will not be a letter. It will be judicial escalation, regulatory submission, and evidentiary publication.

And yes, it will be archived. Publicly. Indelibly. Professionally.


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Chromatic v Social Surveillance On the Institutional Consequences of Marrying Outside the Template



⟡ Annex M – A Marriage That Threatened the Template ⟡

In Which an Interracial Union Offended the System, and Surveillance Was Its Dowry


Metadata

Filed: 8 July 2025
Reference Code: N1/ADDENDUM/INTERMARRIAGE-TRACKING
Court File Name: 2025-07-08_Addendum_N1Claim_InterracialMarriage_HistoricHarassmentSince2015.pdf
Filed by: Polly Chromatic 
Court: Central Family Court
Marriage Location: Miami, Florida, USA (Feb 2008)
Children Involved:
• Regal
• Prerogative
• Kingdom
• Heir


I. What Happened

We married in Miami. We built a family.
We relocated.
And the moment we crossed into the jurisdiction of British social work, our family structure was treated like a problem in need of correction.

What followed was not support.
It was not assessment.
It was historic harassment — surveillance as ritual, with all the ceremonial suspicion reserved for interracial families who refuse to apologise for their existence.

Since 2015, we have been monitored without cause, referred without evidence, and treated as a threat not because we were unsafe — but because we were unfamiliar.


II. The Social Work Obsession, 2015–2025

  • Unfounded referrals across boroughs

  • Repetitive home visits with no lawful threshold

  • Monitoring so consistent it could be mistaken for employment

  • A refusal to release our names from the suspicion machine

And always — always — without justification.

Our children remained healthy.
We complied with school.
We accessed medical care.
And yet, we were watched — because racial difference and lawful parenting were incompatible in the system’s eyes.


III. Turks and Caicos: The Incident They Ignore, The Context They Omit

Yes, we had one domestic incident in 2015.
It occurred in Turks and Caicos, following my husband’s forced deportation from the U.S., under emotional and economic pressure, another racially charged event that I did my Master's Thesis on. 

But unlike in the UK, no state actor intervened.
Because in Turks and Caicos, violence against women and children is tolerated and encouraged.

So we came to the UK for protection — and instead, received policed parenting and administrative racism.

Where one country ignored, the other surveilled.
Neither safeguarded.


IV. What This Establishes

  • Omission abroad does not excuse intrusion at home

  • A single event does not constitute a decade of persecution

  • Our marriage became a file — not a fact

  • Our children became triggers — not humans

This wasn’t social care. It was social correction — disguised as policy, driven by cultural discomfort.


V. SWANK’s Position

SWANK London Ltd. finds that the UK safeguarding system racialises family structure as a matter of institutional habit.

What began as one family’s move in pursuit of safety became ten years of suspicion, hostility, and legal warfare — not because we failed to parent, but because we failed to conform.

This annex is hereby archived as evidence of longform state aggression, aesthetically filed for posterity, litigation, and annotated vengeance.


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Chromatic v Westminster On the Strategic Inconvenience of Black Fatherhood and the State’s Reluctance to Acknowledge It



⟡ Annex Y – The PIN That Never Came ⟡

In Which a Black British Father Is Excluded by Silence, and Contact Denied by Delay


Metadata

Filed: 8 July 2025
Reference Code: N1/ADDENDUM/ALAIN-CONTACT-DENIED
Court File Name: 2025-07-08_Addendum_N1Claim_FatherPINAccessIgnored_RacialExclusion.pdf
Filed by: Polly Chromatic 
Court: Central Family Court
Children Involved:
• Regal
• Prerogative
• Kingdom
• Heir


I. What Happened

On the morning of 8 July 2025, multiple urgent emails were sent to Westminster social workers Kirsty Hornal and Sam Brown requesting the PIN code for the children’s scheduled contact session with their father.

Those emails were met with silence.
No code. No apology. No explanation.

As a result, the children’s lawful father, a man with full parental responsibility, was excluded in real time from his own children — again.


II. What the Incident Reveals

This was not an accident. This was not a systems error.
This was a bureaucratic shrug draped in racial omission.

Had the father been a white man with Royal Mail training, the call would’ve been placed, the code resent, and the apology swift.
Instead, a Black father of four — British-born and Turks & Caicos citizen — was simply left out.

The harm was both emotional and deliberate.


III. The Children Noticed

The children expected him.
He was preparing to log in.
He never arrived — and no one told them why.

Instead of a warm reunion, they received confusion.
Instead of contact, they were handed another absence authored by State delay.


IV. Procedural and Racial Violations

  • Failure to respond to lawful request for contact access

  • Violation of Article 8 ECHR – right to family life

  • Passive racial exclusion of a legal father

  • Continuation of Westminster’s systemic parental erasure

  • Disruption of kinship ties without lawful threshold


V. Formal Response and Scheduled Redress

A formal letter has been issued to Ms. Hornal and Mr. Brown, demanding that the children’s contact with their father be rescheduled to 11 July 2025 at 7:00 AM.

All access details must be sent in writing at least 24 hours prior, or the Claimant reserves the right to escalate this as a racial discrimination matter before both the Family Court and the EHRC.


VI. SWANK’s Position

SWANK London Ltd. recognises this as a legally actionable moment of racialised exclusion, in which the simple act of a father trying to see his children became too administratively inconvenient to honour.

It is not just neglect — it is cultural coding.
It says: you are not real, you are not necessary, you do not belong.

That message is now logged.
We do not accept it.


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Chromatic v Westminster & RBKC On the Quiet Erasure of a Black Father from His Children’s Lives and the State’s Comfort With That Silence



⟡ Annex X – A Father They Refused to Name ⟡

On the Racial and Procedural Erasure of a black father by Westminster Children’s Services


Metadata

Filed: 8 July 2025
Reference Code: N1/ADDENDUM/ALAIN-EXCLUSION
Court File Name: 2025-07-08_Addendum_N1Claim_AlainSimlett_ExclusionAndRacialDisplacement.pdf
Filed by: Polly Chromatic 
Court: Central Family Court
Children Involved:
• Regal
• Prerogative
• Kingdom
• Heir


I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025, four disabled children were removed by force — without notice, without medical cause, and without so much as a phone call to their father.

Despite being married to the Claimant since February 2008, and listed on all birth certificates, Mr. Simlett was excluded from every single document, threshold conversation, and safeguarding decision. The children’s legal father was, quite literally, written out of their lives by bureaucrats with poor spelling and poorer ethics.

This addendum is not a request. It is a formal accusation of racial exclusion and procedural sabotage.


II. What the Addendum Establishes

  • That the Local Authority knew of Alain Bonnee Annee Simlett’s identity, legal status, and marital position

  • That his Black fatherhood was treated as negligible, optional, and discardable

  • That this omission was not accidental — it was operational


III. Procedural and Racial Violations

  1. No Section 20 consent was signed or sought

  2. No emergency threshold was lawfully met to override dual-parent rights

  3. No consultation, notification, or inquiry was extended to the father

  4. No respect was paid to the children’s cultural, racial, or paternal identity


IV. Legal and Civil Breaches

  • Violation of Article 8 ECHR (Right to family life)

  • Discriminatory exclusion of a Black British and Turks & Caicos citizen parent

  • Suppression of kinship care alternatives

  • Procedural dishonesty and archival omission

Had Mr. Chromatic been white, British-born, or institutionally affiliated, we have no doubt he would have received both a letter and a microphone. Instead, he was airbrushed from state records in a process so profoundly racist it would have felt more at home in colonial archives than in 2025 London.


V. SWANK’s Position

SWANK London Ltd. identifies the exclusion of Alain Bonnee Annee Simlett as a textbook act of racialised safeguarding misconduct.

The Local Authority failed not only the father, but the law itself. This was a ritual of administrative cleansing — removing the inconvenient Black parent from view to stabilise a narrative that never aligned with facts.

The consequences are not symbolic. They are legal.

The Claimant reserves the right to:

  • Escalate this matter to the EHRC

  • Submit evidence of racial exclusion to the High Court

  • Seek compensatory damages on behalf of the children for unlawful family separation

This addendum has now been filed to the Central Family Court, served to Westminster, and added to the Claimant’s N1 civil claim.


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