ASSAP's Tryst with Trickster Trystan

"Of particular interest to Highgate Vampire aficionados of course will be the synopses given for Messrs David Farrant and Trystan Lewis Swale." - Redmond McWilliams (12 August 2016)

The ASSAP (founded 1981) have returned to the topic of the Highgate Vampire case on numerous occasions in the past, but never once have they ventured to extend an invitation to the author of The Highgate Vampire who led the investigation into the case from start to finish. The ASSAP does have an inclination toward people like Farrant and Swale for some extraordinary, albeit bizarre, reason, and both have connections to others invited to speak, as well as each other. It is all rather incestuous.

Seán Manchester had a tumultuous, albeit undesired, association with Farrant in the 1970s which is covered in his books on vampirism and, moreover, Satanism, but he owes no connection to Swale who has been stalking him for several years due to a sociopathic obsession Swale has with both the author and exorcist Seán Manchester and the investigation that took place before Swale was born. 

The only time Swale had direct contact with the man he trolls and stalks was approximately three years ago when Seán Manchester received an unrecognised telephone call out of the blue.

"I received an un­so­licited telephone call from Swale in 2013 [Swale erroneously gives the year as 2012, but is prone to getting most things wrong.] My number is ex-di­rec­tory and he would have made its discovery via dubious methods. I treated Swale as cour­te­ously as I would treat anyone else, but I did not desire to have any conversa­tion with him and only spoke longer than I would have normally because he was about to bury his grand­fa­ther later that day. We spoke about that fact. We did not discuss Highgate, the su­per­nat­ural or my ministry," stated Seán Manchester closer to the time.

Yet how could Swale not remember the year of his grandfather's funeral unless it was a ploy to garner Seán Manchester's sympathy who would not have continued any sort of conversation on the telephone if he had not been told by the caller that he was about to attend his grandfather's funeral?

Now the ASSAP have provided a synopsis of Trystan Lewis Swale's intended Highgate Vampire talk:

"'The Trickster in Highgate Cemetery' looks at the relationship between anomalous phenomena and the trickster archetype that occurs in anthropology, Jungian psychology and literature. It explores this theme using the tale of the Highgate Vampire as an illustrative case study. As well as simple introductions to the case and trickster studies it features (a) previously unpublished witness reports to the Highgate apparition/entity, (b) previously unpublished testimony from an individual who was central to Sean Manchester's version of events, (c) an analysis of how the Highgate case has been revised by its protagonists through the years based upon their own written accounts; and (d) the arguments offered as to why tricksters may choose to behave as they do."

What do we know about Trystan Lewis Swale, apart from the fact that he stalks Seán Manchester and anyone he believes has a connection to the exorcist, including those who wish to be left alone?

1. Swale is an atheist, sceptic and believer in nothing spiritual, mystical, paranormal or supernatural.

2. If there is an agenda, particularly where Seán Manchester is concerned, it is Swale's extreme left-wing bias. He openly supports violent groups who physically attack anyone and any organisation deemed vaguely patriotic or pro-British. Needless to say, Swale is unpatriotic, globalist and Marxist.

3. Swale often seems troubled and evinces sudden bouts of paranoid rage, having turned on most of his past friends, including Righteous Indignation podcast co-host Hayley Stevens. In the past the pair of them interviewed Farrant sympathetically, which does not square with Swale's scepticism until it is viewed, as more people have come to accept, that Farrant is an atheistic disingenuous fraud.

4. Swale now deceitfully claims to have "previously unpublished testimony from an individual who was central to Seán Manchester's case." Elsewhere he has stated: "I’m not going to name people who have a reasonable right to anonymity." Why not if they're bona fide? This stratagem suggests that Swale's "witness" either (a) does not exist, or (b) is a stooge. Farrant's so-called "secretary," Patsy Langley (aka Patsy Sorenti), colluded in a similar deceit, but, of course, could not produce a scrap of evidence, much the less her "witness," because it had all been fabricated to support a falsehood originating with Farrant. As Seán Manchester revealed after being notified of Swale's synopsis on the ASSAP's website: "Those involved in this controversial saga remained by their own request anonymous, or were given pseudonyms [in The Highgate Vampire] by me. Those who allowed use of their real names I am still in contact with, and they have not had contact with Swale."

5. Such is Swale's obsession that he purchased a website domain with the same title as one of Seán Manchester's bestselling books. Employing images infringed from Seán Manchester's published works and online presence, Swale uses the site to malign, attack and defame Seán Manchester.

6. Swale lies, cajoles and intimidates to achieve his ends. When not pretending to be an accredited journalist, he takes his deception to the extreme by claiming to have links to "the security services." 

"I still have no idea why Trystan has turned against me the way he has. Did I do him wrong and then forget about it? I suspect that Trystan has simply become what is known as an 'SJW- Social Justice Warrior.' The SJW is a brand of fool who is very unique to the early 21st century. For example, it would be very difficult to explain to somebody just twenty years ago how what should have been a momentous occasion, the landing of a spacecraft on a comet, was trashed by a gaggle of whining malodorous little Twitter-pugilists because of the shirt the scientist involved was wearing. Trystan says I believe in 'casual racism.' I think this means that I am a white heterosexual male who does not open every sentence with an apology for existing. I refuse to condemn myself and my fellow WHM people as 'EEEEEEEEEEEvil!' In fact I consider that kind of thing cultural Marxism."

— Ben Emlyn-Jones (HPANWO Voice, 11 August 2016)

The ASSAP include this disclaimer at the foot of their list of invited speakers to the non-event next month: "Speakers are invited to ASSAP conferences to provide a range of views on subjects requested by delegates. Appearance does not imply endorsement of speakers' views or background."

Like many obsessed sociopaths before him, the Cheltenham clown is skating on paper thin ice.