Case against Louise Distras collapses

Errr no

It did not meet the threshhold for the CPS to spend public funds on holding a trial so not in the public interest as the CPS could not meet its requirement of producing the evidence.

And in the UK the system is run on innocent until proven otherwise.

So lets get this straight… she was found not guilty because it didn’t meet the threshhold for a conviction. And as we all know, not guilty doesn’t equal innocent.

She must have had a non-mol agaisnt her spanning yeats? They don’t just grant and extend those for seemingly no reason, do they?

I’d probabaly be more trusting of Louise if she didn’t have such a long history of crowdfundng tens of thousands. Pretty much everything she posts seems to have some kind of Crowd Funder, buy me a cofee, or promote her music link attatched.

Has anyone actually looked futher into any of her cliams, especially the ones she hasn’t even written herself?

Unbelievable?

Is that in fact why the case was dropped.

That the CPS or whoever thought maybe this is about something else, rather than saying there is no case to answer.

I was sorrry to hear that Bandcamp, which I've always supported thought was a bit better than Evil Spotify, had dumped on Louise.

The fuck? Wow

<spoiler>It’s her brother.<end-spoiler>

She says who it is in her speech at LWS: https://x.com/LouiseDistras/status/1937060451285864599

It's everywhere, isn't it? Orgs where you thought, surely these people will be sensible... Who can be relied on? Seems mostly at the moment the courts, and the slow pressure of increasing public awareness forcing political action, one way or another.

YY.

Ways to support Louise Distras: https://www.louisedistras.com/products/street-revolution-digital-ep

She has also posted this notice and link to back ground post on facebook.

Just mentioning as I think not only for the supposed "crime" but the pre trial "punishment" that she will not get compensation for, ie 2 years of waiting, should be shared as widely as possible.

It really makes you wonder how many other women are being held in limbo like this.

This is the facebook link for anyone on facebook who might want to share, or even add a message of support.
https://www.facebook.com/louisedistras/posts/pfbid0WJTK693YRhNkCPbh37e53sGjxMtvT6GtbfwfdoeusZjchqMY3NudFEh7HjjjXSQZl

It's in her blog just why there was transparency about the situation. It's because she was facing 5 years in jail for talking about it.

I always felt there was a lack of transparency surrounding her cases. Like the first one I donated to in family court. Again with this second one. Wasn't it because she mentioned them and she wasn't supposed to? Can anyone help me out? Loads of people were lost also, it wasn't just me.

I’d not heard of this case but, while I'm glad for Louise that the case has been dropped, it should never have come anywhere near a court. Process as punishment, as usual, and the police/CPS should be ashamed.

Great news. I’ve been following it from the start but her tweets have fallen off my algorithm for some reason.

I'm not going to watch that video, it's enough to see who is speaking - having that person as 'CPS Speak Out Champion', would have a chilling effect on staff raising issues in a confidential way - for instance if the issue was that TW are not W and 'LGBT+' is meaningless because the interests of the 'T+' part are not only not the same as the LGB part, but inimical to it.
Try telling that to the Speak Out Champion, and see how you get on...

Congratulations to Louise, but yet again, the punishment is the process.
Wishing you strong and well, after all you've been put through, Louise

It's always interesting to see who claims to be influencing practice at the CPS:

https://www.cps.gov.uk/stories/pride-supporting-the-lgbt-community

But no women are actually harmed by this ideology apparently...

Thanks royalcorgi. I am glad that the case won’t continue. How fucked up that she had to wait for court to know this.

The CPS are deeply trans captured and have been for many years. They beclowned themselves many years ago by producing toxic "trans guidelines" for schools which were anti safeguarding and openly promoted coercive control of girls (to the extent they tried to weigh in on the behaviour of girls in toilets and insist that any reluctance to befriend any "trans child" was transphobia.

The guidelines were swiftly withdrawn in the face of a potential judicial review but I'd put money on it that the authors still work in the CPS and no doubt continue to influence prosecution policy to the detriment of women and girls.

Another institution that needs a review into their failure to adopt the Nolan Principles of public life along with a deep dive into the computers of some of their staff.

Great news. Sue them all!

I gather from an earlier post the person involved was someone LD had ceased contact with in 2020 for their abusive and threatening behaviour. Their behaviour escalated when she started talking about sex and gender in 2023. Whether this person was a TRA before or not is not explicit but it seems like they found her speaking out as something they could use to drum up further abuse towards her. That’s my impression.

It’s batshit. As pp said, it’s all very well for the CPS to stand up after wasting everyone s time and money and say there isn’t a case. It was their choice to do so, it could have been binned much much earlier. Well done Louise and i hope you take WYP to the cleaners, and the CPS too if you have the energy. Arseholes all.

Sad to say, it just makes you wonder how many more Louise Distrases there are out there.

I thought this paragraph from her blog was worth highlighting: "It’s infuriating that taxpayers’ money is being wasted on dragging a single line from my Let Women Speak speech through the courts, while police and court time is pulled away from helping women and children facing real horrors like domestic abuse, violence, rape, or grooming gangs. This messed-up focus leaves so many women without the protection they need, showing how the system seems to care more about silencing us than saving lives. The fact that legal abuse is becoming normal to target women’s voices while calls to hurt us go ignored, is a massive injustice."