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Case against Louise Distras collapses

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RoyalCorgi · 29/12/2025 10:40

Louise Distras has been through the most shocking experience of being harassed and hounded by trans activists - and then prosecuted for being the harasser.

Fortunately, the case fell apart.

x.com/LouiseDistras/status/2005564950391955689

For those not on Twitter, this is what she says:

Finally dragged myself out of this Christmas flu pit to tell you that on 9 December, I walked out of Leeds Crown Court NOT GUILTY. The case collapsed before it even got to trial. The CPS stood up, admitted they had zero evidence, and told the judge there wasn’t a cat in hell’s chance of any jury convicting me.

I’d been facing up to five years in prison for allegedly breaching an expired (and dodgy AF) non-molestation order. My “crime”? Speaking publicly about the abuse and stalking I’d suffered from a male trans activist at the Let Women Speak event in Leeds and in an X Spaces chat back in 2023.

If you want the backstory on what led to this prosecution (the stalking, the dodgy orders, the timeline), I wrote it all out on my blog (link in bio).

After years of stress, cancelled gigs, lost income, and the music industry turning its back on me…something finally went right.

I’m still trying to get my head around the sheer insanity of it all. I’ve got a lot more to say when I’m ready, but right now I just needed you to know the good news.

It’s early days but I’ve already started the wheels turning on suing West Yorkshire Police too - watch this space.

Thankyou for having my back through all the crap. Happy New Year you absolute legends. Louise XX

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EdithStourton · 29/12/2025 12:02

So we have a woman hounded and more public money wasted.
She should sue, if she can, the CPS as well as WYP.

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RoyalCorgi · 29/12/2025 11:38

Conxis · 29/12/2025 11:13

The case collapsed before it even got to trial. The CPS stood up, admitted they had zero evidence, and told the judge there wasn’t a cat in hell’s chance of any jury convicting me.

Which begs the question why the CPS brought the case in the first place! Isn’t it their job to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed???

You've got to wonder, haven't you? All those people in the CPS who must have considered the evidence (I'm assuming there's more than one, but what do I know) and then waited until the day of the trial to decide Oh, actually, there isn't enough evidence to prosecute. How does that even work? It suggests that the CPS is an utterly shambolic organisation.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 29/12/2025 11:16

Conxis · 29/12/2025 11:13

The case collapsed before it even got to trial. The CPS stood up, admitted they had zero evidence, and told the judge there wasn’t a cat in hell’s chance of any jury convicting me.

Which begs the question why the CPS brought the case in the first place! Isn’t it their job to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed???

They’re quite happy not to pursue cases against male sex offenders because they can’t win.

Seems that the process being the punishment only applies to women.

Conxis · 29/12/2025 11:13

The case collapsed before it even got to trial. The CPS stood up, admitted they had zero evidence, and told the judge there wasn’t a cat in hell’s chance of any jury convicting me.

Which begs the question why the CPS brought the case in the first place! Isn’t it their job to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed???

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 29/12/2025 11:10

I'm glad the case against her collapsed, from the weight of it's sheer stupidity no doubt, I hope she sues the CPS as well because they would have been the one's who decided to take this to court. It shouldn't have taken them until they got to court to realise they had 'zero evidence'.

Hope she takes sometime for herself, to recover from the super flu and then in 2026, if she's willing, take legal action against them all, including the person who was behind this legal attack on her.

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RoyalCorgi · 29/12/2025 10:52

I'm also glad she's suing the police. West Yorkshire Police have been one of the worst offenders in this madness, though they do have competition (Surrey, Gwent and the Met all spring to mind - I'm sure there are others).

It's terrifying that something like this can happen. We've seen trans activists repeatedly bully, harass and terrorise women - and then use the criminal law against us to accuse us of harassing them. The fact that the police actually take this seriously suggests they are either very stupid, or very misogynistic or, most probably, both.

Why aren't the police ever held to account for the way they misuse the law to hound and bully women?

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rubyslippers · 29/12/2025 10:48

I’m glad she’s suing the police
but it’s been monumentally distressing for her
she’s a very brave woman - thanks to her and the others who refuse to back down

PriOn1 · 29/12/2025 10:47

I’m really pleased to hear it went well, though it’s another very obvious case of the process being in the punishment as well as a horrendous demonstration of the overreach transactivists have in terms of power over the police and judicial system.

Ohyoudodoyou · 29/12/2025 10:47

So glad to read this as I followed all of this on X. She’s had a rough time, women have definitely borne the brunt of this. I see men speaking out and yes they get some back lash but jeez, what women get, damage to rep, work lost, death/rape threats. I remember Billy Bragg leading a pile on her too, the creep.