Summary
This is a frightening case but the tactics Natalie Kennedy used show most parents in the UK are at risk of the same.
Update March: it has come to light Natalie and her solicitor have broken the law. A High Court judge has confirmed his order did not permit their actions. Please see the ‘March 2025’ heading in this post or click this link for details: https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/crime-do-solicitors-break-the-law
The above is the latest update. Let’s go back to the beginning with a brief summary of the case….
2018-2023
Natalie used abuse, abduction and alienation against me and our child.
For details please see posts:
Triple A - https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/summary
and Court Judgments https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/court-judgments
I also got a temporary non-molestation injunction to stop her abusing me in 2020.
In a 4 day trial found the court found Natalie had:
• gaslighted and undermined me
• attempted fraud against me
• told false and malicious allegations about me
• had committed parental alienation or attempted parental alienation
The trial also covered 17 occasions when Natalie reported me to police. They sent 112 pages of evidence to the court showing I had not done anything wrong. The 50 page judgment from the trial judged I had not done anything wrong.
August 2023
Afraid, following a holiday, my child and I do not return to the UK.
I suggest mediation which begins in October. I hope to find sme safeguards to prevent continuation of the last 5 years. For some reason, in the midst of mediation, Natalie freezes my bank accounts and house. It seems counterproductive and increases my fear of her but I continue with mediation as I want to find an amicable solution for our child.
November 2023
Parents agree in mediation points for a safe return to the UK I was denied access to my own funds to get legal advice to see whether the agreement was solid.
January 2024
Final mediation session. Reiterates agreement on points but I was still denied access to my own funds to get legal advice. By now I had been forced to attend around 6 High Court hearings on my own and without legal help. I needed legal advice. It was the only stumbling block and would have enabled a safe return.
Denied legal help I ask the High Court judge if an order would hold or be could be ripped up on return. The judge said it would likely hold if she approved terms. On hearing that, the next day Natalie walked away from the mediated deal.
February 2024
Natalie pursues prison sentence instead of signing the agreement. At the court hearing I reiterate desire to return and said if we sign the mediated agreement I can return in March. Natalie refuses this and the court gives me a 1 year sentence.
March-Sept 2024
More court hearings. I offer mediation at each. The judge also recommends it in September but Natalie refuses. This is despite her messaging on August 11, 2024
‘If you are that interested in coming back send your mediation notes to the court. So they can make an order for <our child’s name> to live in <town where I live>.’
She then flip-flops again and the judge ignores it. At anytime from November 2023 the judge could have written an order based on parental agreement but instead let Natalie change her mind twice. The judge could also have lifted sanctions to allow me to pay for legal advice in 2023. But for that we could have returned as parents had agreed a return agreement in November 2023.
Disreputable Thug
Natalie also employed a violent thug with an assault judgment in Canada and who fraudulently claimed to work for Ukraine, only for Ukraine to say in the press he did not. Please see the post ‘Bad Actors - Miceál O’Hurley’
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/miceal-ohurley for more about him.
December 2024
A year after parents mediated a good return agreement with safeguards the real aim is achieved. My abuser got a second committal hearing to either give me a second jail sentence or take my house. The court chose the latter.
I made the point the house was to be inherited by our child and the rest of my family but neither the mum nor the court cared. Our child’s financial future flushed down the toilet.
The mother said she needed to sell my house (it was solely mine and she had only ever been there once) as she needed £10k-£20k to bring an overseas case against me. To try and save our child’s inheritance I offered to give her the cash over a few months, which would have been quicker than evicting the tenant selling the house.
Neither court nor mother wanted me to save our child’s house. How could a mum let her own child’s house be lost through spite? I will never understand even though authorities, case history and medical evidence indicates that should have been expected.
Taking My Family’s House
On December 5th 2024 locksmiths turned up at my house and changed the locks even though the court order was still in draft. This was orchestrated by my abuser's solicitors. Luckily the tenant renting the place came back at the time and was given new keys.
The solicitor should have served the tenant and waited for the finalised court order before acting. The court order gave no permission to the solicitor to change the locks.
Natalie and her solicitor acted illegally and against tenancy law. It could have left an elderly or vulnerable person out in the cold. They have no right and the court order did not give them permission. You cannot just evict a tenant without notice, there are laws in place to protect tenants from what Natalie did. This shows the level of agression - as long as she hurts me she doesnt mind if unconnected people or even her own child are hurt.
I stress that despite numerous malicious complaints from Natalie over many years no authority or court ever said I did anything wrong except not return to the abuse after 5 years. Nobody knows why she is abusive to me. Looking at her medical notes I think this case would have happened whoever the father was. Please see the posts about her psychiatric report, cognitive issues and psychlogist report for more on that.
Whatever she’s done I have not retaliated. I just want peace for our child but Natalie can’t stop - even taking her child’s house last week when there was no need. I am petrified of her after 6 years of this.
Note - if someone in the property business can help please DM me.
To clarify, this is in a civil case, not a criminal one yet knife criminals and drug dealers are treated better in the UK.
In the last year I have received a jail sentence, my house has been taken, my passport cancelled and my bank accounts frozen. Friends of mine were harassed and traumatised and my abuser tried to stop me telling anyone what about what they were doing. People don’t flee abuse and endure this unless they are very frightened and I am very frightened of Natalie.
I have been given the jail sentence and had my family’s house taken for civil contempt, following a court application for it by Natalie. My contempt was not obeying a court order to return to the UK. I have said many times I would but I don’t feel safe and would like a court order with some protections, given they did not protect my child and I when we were in the UK. I have court judgments showing the abuse we suffered and evidence from authorities but the court demands I return without any safeguards and I don’t want to put me and my child at risk. In my view it is not contempt, I fear and respect the court but I fear Natalie more.
Elon Musk recently tweeted that nobody should go to jail for civil contempt yet the UK does this. As we have seen recently, the UK punishes people even for social media posts while letting pedophiles go free and releasing violent criminals early to free up prison spaces. It has a broken two-tier justice system.
We have also see it ignore grooming gangs for decades, harming children - it is estimated 250,000 children. In February 2025 the UK courts forced Apple to change its systems so the UK could spy on users and the same month the Prime Minister was criticised in the White House in front of the whole word for its punishment of free speech. The UK is in dark times. I love my country and people but the authorities and legal system have serious flaws and are broken.
In December 2024 Natalie literally caused the loss of her own child's house by getting a court to take it from me as punishment for not returning to abuse. What parent could do that to their child? It was very painful and maybe karma will visit the malicious people involved.
The only plus point is I have nothing left to lose now in the UK. I was told the above was to force me to return to be abused. If you are frightened of abuse how does more abuse convince you to return? We mediated an agreement to return which had safeguards to stop abuse. It was a good agreement but my abuser backed out of it to go after my house.
Rather than return to jail, homelessness and abuse I will now try to move forward in a safe and nice place. God help all in the UK family courts.
January 2025
Natalie’s solicitor harasses the tenant to leave the house using intimidation. The emails showing this will be published.
February 2025
Natalie and her solicitor forcibly evicted the tenant using bailiffs. It turns out this was illegal. See the ‘March 2025’ heading below for details…
Natalie has also gave up calling our child. See this link for messages proving this:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/february-2025-update
March 2025
It came to light Natalie and her solicitor have broken the law. The High Court judge who made the order confirmed his order did not allow them to evict the tenant in the house. They illegally broke into the house in December, harassed the tenant, illegally evicted him in February and have withheld his belongings since then. Unbelieveable isn’t it yet we have messages from Natalie and her solicitor proving it.
Natalie has spent 3 months breaking the law in order to take her child’s house when we mediated an agreement to resolve the case in November 2023.
All I want is safety but her behaviour frightens me and harms our child. She has hired a vigilante and now even her solicitor is breaking the law for financial gain. They then got a gagging order in March 2025 to stop their actions coming to light.
The judge was aware unlawful things had gone on by Natalie and her solicitor (we have messages from him through his clerk) but he did nothing. It is unbelievable a UK court would enable this level of crime and abuse and then try to gag speaking about it. Here is an update with full details:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/crime-do-solicitors-break-the-law
May 2025 - Dad and Daughter in Danger
Our new page shows how 3 lawbreakers are putting dad and daughter at risk. Please read this:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/dad-and-daughter-in-danger
A small win - the BBC took down a defamatory program that Kennedy and O’Hurley took part in.
The program broke a court order and was defamatory. The BBC should have known and did not carry out basic due diligence, causing harm and danger to dad and daughter. After seeing evidence from us the BBC removed the program. Details here:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/bbc-defamation-my-case-a-small-win
Conclusion
1. After 6 years of this I am terrified of Natalie. Court judgments plus evidence from police, Social Services, CAFCASS, GP, Psychologist and Psychiatrist show my fears are well founded. Add to that her actions after we had agreed a return to the UK leave me petrified. I feel most people would be the same.
2. During mediation she inexplicably began tandem actions most would find counterproductive and worrying:
i) began running media stories for money. These broke the terms of the publicity order and put our child at risk. I told the High Court judge more than once but they didn’t care. Most children in family court are safeguarded from publicity. In my case the court allowed publicity within strict limits but Natalie broke those repeatedly and made money doing so. It was harmful to the child but the court didn’t care. It did not ensure our child had the same safeguards other children get in the media.
The media companies have also broken the court order. The court did not give my child the protection other children in family court cases get. When we were in mediation Natalie chose to run stories for money that will follow our child for decades.
ii) froze my bank accounts and house for the last 11 months and taken over £10,000 of money I had. Those things cut me off from money I needed for legal advice (I’ve been force to attend over 12 High Court hearings alone). It also robbed me of money for our child. At no time in the last year has Natalie asked about our child’s food, shelter, or medical needs. We could have been on the streets.
iii) Began crowdfunding. She has run at least 2 GoFundMe campaigns. In the latest one she is trying to raise $30k,
The psychological report (see ‘Psychologist’ post) shows Natalie’s cognitive problems:
• IQ is only higher than 23% of people
• verbal reasoning skills are only better than 32% of people
• non-verbal skills are only better than 25%
• working memory is only better than 13% of people
• The Self-Deceptive Enhancement measurement shows she has difficulties with self-insight.
The psychological report also shows she has a history of:
• anger
• bipolar
• anxiety
• being enraged
• suicidal thoughts
• self-harm
• depression
• paranoia
The court judgments shows she had:
• gaslighted and undermined me
• attempted fraud against me
• told false and malicious allegations about me
• had attempted to alienate our child
It is a frightening combination. I think most people would be frightened by it. I am.
Some links to extracts from the expert reports are here:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/her-psychiatrist-report
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/psychologist
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/social-services
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/cafcass
We could have returned with our November 2023 agreement. The central plank for this was that Natalie agreed to bring our child back to the region in England she abducted her from in 2019:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/natalie-abducting-our-child
So, we agreed to bring our daughter up in region we had planned before birth.
Some might wonder why, if we had agreement in November 2023 the case is ongoing in 2024. Natalie walked away from the agreement. She chose not to have a mediated return in favour of having me jailed, running stories for money and pushing my house close to loss. Whatever she may say in her media stories her actions don’t align and cannot be evidenced. Evidence is not her strong point. Simply, I will show in another post she could have had 50/50 shared parenting in the UK since November 2023. she agreed arrangements 3 times only to backout.
Instead she plots my doom (arrest abroad, jail in UK, loss of house). I would also find it hard to work in the UK with a prison record. She wants me jailed, homeless and unemployed. The UK court has made a written judgment that Natalie wants to alienate our child. This would do it.
She wants that over peaceful parenting. That may sound incomprehensible and frightening - it does to me but the actions align. We had amicable agreement to return in 2023.
People may say no parent would do that over seeing their child. That Natalie does frightens me.
The plausible explanation is:
• The medical issues listed above at partly or wholly causing this
• Court judgments showing years of her abusive behaviour, which align with the medical issues
• The CAFCASS and Social Services evidence (please see ‘CAFCASS’ and ‘Social Services’ pages):
“there are no bruises or tears in the vaginal area, I am worried that the mum has heightened the situation in order to get one up on <baby name>’s father and for professional support in her stopping any contact between <baby name> and her father. Should this be true, then I am really worried that the mum is using her daughter in this manner and I would question the mum’s ability to prioritise <baby name>’s needs above her own.”
“one reason for wanting to be a parent was to improve her social and interpersonal relationships."
“She wanted to have a child to get out of a rut and to reconnect with people.”
• Court found Natalie had attempted fraud before. She is now selling stories and crowdfunding to make money when we reached a return agreement.
As scary as it sounds, she is making money and reconnecting with people through the story and putting her need for conflict, money and abuse above our child’s needs for peaceful parenting. She could resolve things at any time using our mediated agreement reached in November 2023 and she has an open offer to discuss anything to resolve things but she wants dad destroyed. Some of her fallacies are here:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/natalies-fallacies
The court, police, Social Services, CAFCASS, etc have all found no wrongdoing from me despite years of abuse. The only thing the court says I have ever done wrong is not returning to the UK.
The court had 5 years previously to stop the abuse but it didn’t. The abuse didn’t start a year ago. Court judgments and reports from authorities show it started 6 years ago, following our daughter’s birth.
For her, seeing our child is second place to destroying me. It is the only explanation as we agreed shared parenting in mediation and could have been doing that in the UK for nearly a year but she walked away from the agreement in January 2024 without explaining why.
Her abuse of me was found and judged upon by the court and were upheld by the Royal Courts of Justice. Since her allegations have been found false she has offered no other reason for her aggression. This is not 2 aggressive people fighting, it is one being aggressive and the other trying to find safety.
Nobody has ever said I did anything wrong until, after 5 years of abuse, I did not return to be abused for years more. I never did anything to Natalie to cause aggression - NOTHING. If that or anything I have said on this website is incorrect I welcome evidence of it and will put it on this website. I have nothing to hide and the truth needs to be shown.
Despite this the courts gave no protection so she has been able to create incredible damage for 6 years. In fact, the UK authorities through its many flaws, including Legal Aid when unproven allegations are made and no consequence when they are found to be false allegations green lights and enables cases like mine. Natalie ran a family court playbook and similar can happen to almost any parent in the UK. Most are at risk just don’t know it.
Natalie has focused on taking her child’s house and doesn’t even call her child anymore, she just steals from her child:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/february-2025-update
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/natalies-fallacies
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/a-mother-stealing-from-her-child
Despite years of abuse I never retaliated in any way, I just tried to find safety. Despite everything Natalie has done I do not hold it against her, I just want peace for our daughter.
The whole case is a tragedy but need not be so. We had an agreement and all I want is safety.
People, who have not been in trouble before do not suddenly leave their country, house, friends and family for no reason. The evidence on this website, which will be added to, show a 6 year horror story of what can happen to parents in the UK.
For a list of the legal issues and judicial errors and ways people can help if they would like please see these pages:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/how-you-can-help
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/judicial-errors
The UK court has also violated human rights i.e. I was forced to attend over 12 High Court hearings alone while the court froze my ank accounts cutting me off from legal help (this breaks ECHR Article 6 (right to a fair trial, which also covers hearings).
It has also left a parent and child unbanked for 18 months and taken our house for civil contempt - while the UK lets pedophiles run free and lets out violent criminal and drug dealers early to free up prison space for social media posters. Here is a post about the human rights violations in this case:
https://friendsoffairparentingpodcast.substack.com/p/human-rights-violations
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Also, I have not wished to go into the concerns for my child to respect their privacy. There are significant concerns that will be presented in an overseas court case.