LATEST ISSUES 23rd April, 2026

The email I received from Layla at Prevent Watch on the 16^th of April was hugely disappointing.

‘Dear Mark,

Thank you for the documents and apologies for the silence on our end. As I or Anna may have mentioned she is on mat leave and I am trying to keep up with the cases as well as my role atm and unfortunately I have fallen very behind on email responses.

I appreciate the significance of the referral circumstances but as we have seen previously these are unlikely to warrant in and of themselves a high enough threshold to make a legal case against them for making the referral in the first place. Prevent has been abused many times and we find that in some cases where it is obvious that it has been abused for discriminatory reasons the institutions will try to settle the case without admission of wrongdoing but say something went wrong somewhere adn try to settle it. However, in this case and as confirmed when I spoke to some of the lawyers about it, it is very unlikely to meet the threshold and therefore they didn't feel confident taking it on.

The limitations you speak of are true and for the 1 year point that would be under the Human Rights Act pending the legal angle you were wanting to pursue. There is howevevr no limitation to the data angle and the way you set everything out in the most recent document you shared helps to present it to the legal team looking at data issues and they may want to speak to you but if you do think there is a case then do reach out to other lawyers and see if they will take it. I have found however that in previous cases if the lawyers clued up about Prevent are hesitant then the others in the mainstream are even less likely.

Best wishes,

Layla

Dr. Layla Aitlhadj | Director | Prevent Watch’

I have obviously made a mistake in relying completely on Prevent Watch. There is now less than two months until the statute of limitations expires under the Human Rights Act and I would need to approach potentially hundreds of law firms if I wanted to pursue legal action against the Trust.

I have been here before.

I contacted around 174 law firms around 2023 asking for legal assistance in bringing CAMHS art therapist, Sally Mungall and the Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust to court and to have the false information about me removed from Hampshire Police databases.

The obstacles back then were largely about legal fees and availability. I could not afford justice. Law firms offering Legal Aid provision were all too busy and those that wanted to help me were prohibitively expensive.

For example, a judicial review to overturn the actions taken by Hampshire Police was quoted upwards of £30,000.

I did make some tentative legal enquiries last week across a range of issues. The following quote is typical of the response I’m getting,

‘Good morning Mark,…An application for removal of your police record can be made under the Record Deletion Process. The length of time the application takes unfortunately depends upon the police service that was involved; some police forces have significant delays…The fixed fee is £4,500 plus VAT (£5,400) for the application to delete the records of arrest. We would need to take an initial payment of £1,000 at the outset to proceed but future payments can be made in instalments…’ - https://www.olliers.com/lawyers/potter-nathalie/

Another reply focused on clinical negligence

‘Dear Mr Stock

 Thank-you for your enquiry.

Due to capacity, we are unable to accept instructions in your case…’ - *************@forbessolicitors.co.uk

And Layla may be right in her assessment ‘if the lawyers clued up about Prevent are hesitant then the others in the mainstream are even less likely.’ Or it may be that the lawyers she has spoken to specialise in ‘discrimination’ cases. Maybe they focus their resources on the Muslim community who are disproportionately referred to Prevent and maybe there are law firms out there who provide Legal Aid and are willing to assist me.

I do have a complaint pending with the Office of the Independent Prevent Commissioner but I have little faith in the institutions that are set up to safeguard the public. I have been failed too many times already.

I can but draft a legal enquiry and blanket email as many law firms as possible between now and the 18^th June, 2026. It is likely, however, that Gemma Stubbington and the Trust will walk away from the whole Prevent referral debacle without sanction or legal accountability while Hampshire Police will now insist on retaining the same Prevent referral data about me on record for up to SIX YEARS!

TEN MONTHS of my life has already been lost to this issue and I am seriously behind in my efforts to hold CAMHS art therapist, Sally Mungall and the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to account.

I will be compiling my submission to Ombudsman Review Commission over the next few days. The next post to my blog is scheduled for the 1st May and will return to ‘Just Caws’ and resume in the telling of my story about my experiences with Hampshire & IOW Healthcare Foundation Trust, or Southern Health as it was then known. I will also continue with my ‘Theory Of Everything’, my attempt to understand what happened to me during art therapy with Sally Mungall between September and December, 2021.