Linda and Venice's court case has been thrown out

Would it be the CPS who put a stop to it?

After the first court appearance, the magistrates would have adjourned to enable CPS to review the evidence and either (a) take over the prosecution or (b) take over and discontinue.

The court might not have been aware that CPS had already reviewed the evidence. For all it knew, the private prosecutor might have found some new, further evidence that hadn't been considered by CPS before.

With the huge caseload in that particular Magistrates court, I'm not suprised to hear that CPS didn't look at it until the day before the hearing. Seeing that it was the same old same old, with nothing new to meet the charging standard, they sent a last minute notice of discontinuance by email, I suppose.

The way Harrop writes is bizarre, that tweet reminds of the Barbara Cartland pisstake they do in Private Eye about Prince Charles "Heir of Sorrows" by Dame Sylvie Krin. "A brave and inspirational woman, fighting malevolent forces in our midst" - Jesus d-r-aaaaaaa-m-aaaaa

' The results wouldn't exactly be good, but at least they'd give us a laugh, which is more than his current efforts do.'

Speak for yourself. When he tweeted the Pope to complain about Caroline Farrow I was in stitches!

Could well be BruceandNosh but no doubt even more traumatising as it involves the most stunning and brave being most oppressed and frightened ever.

"Dangerous and malevolent forces" snort. Has Dr. Haddock considered writing bad fantasy fanfiction as an alternative occupation to harrassing women on twitter? The results wouldn't exactly be good, but at least they'd give us a laugh, which is more than his current efforts do.

Would it be the CPS who put a stop to it? There was a post on twitter that mentioned an e-mail from CPS set to the court the evening before.

Loving that clip

I don't think it ever occurs to Giuliana that Giuliana could be wrong, or to worry about the light it presents Giuliana in. Does not compute.

TRAs = bunch of bullies
Utterly ridiculous to take this to court.
Note Stonewall liked Dr Haddocks tweet.
No time for Lesbians eh Stonewall?

Hope all going to night have a brilliant time and thank God it's over for Linda and Venice (who's outfit was so on point 👌)

Which they couldn't because there wasn't any. It was spiteful, vexatious and an abuse of the justice system. It needs looking at.

Would it be the CPS who put a stop to it? Or Kendall deciding at the last minute to not go ahead?

Because surely the CPS could have stopped it from the beginning?

American Toilet story
Is that a follow up series to American Horror Story?

It will be interesting to see if the CPS declined to continue with the prosecution because of insufficient evidence

CPS had already looked at the case, after the police were involved and Linda and Venice were interviewed under caution. CPS kicked it out for lack of evidence at that stage.

Hence the private prosecution.

It was never, ever going anywhere unless the private prosecutor could magic up some new evidence. Which they couldn't because there wasn't any. It was spiteful, vexatious and an abuse of the justice system. It needs looking at.

I just watched that clip from twitter - Well played Venice - that was an AWESOME clothing choice!

And great news - I'm glad that we're not so far gone that the court didn't see this for the ridiculous complaint it was.

This is good.

Stupid it went this far.

What welcome news!

re: they must have known this wouldn't fly vs. they had no idea the courts wouldn't leap to do their bidding... Based on the pattern so far, I'd guess the latter, and predict the next steps to be 1) rage 2) PR bid for martyred victimhood.

Congratulations on a fair and logical outcome.

Fantastic news!

Excellent news :)

Great news! Although shame it wasn't put through court so that it was publicly proven in the cold light of day to be a whole load of vexatious, malicious bollocks.

This is such good news.

Best news on a rubbish day.

👍💃🏾

Wonderful news. Raising a cheeky afternoon to Linda & Venice!

It will be interesting to see if the CPS declined to continue with the prosecution because of insufficient evidence, the fact the part of the speech that forms the burden of the complaint was edited and de-contextualised or ???

Trans bullshit meets cold hard reality.

Reality wins.

Hooray!😀😀😀

Congratulations to Linda and Venice. Now l would hope that the Guardian, give Linda a voice to tell this story. Women are being harassed and bullied, come on Guardian, show us you you actually care about women.