So glad to hear this excellent news, what a huge relief it must be for Marion.
At the same time I am absolutely fuming that the judicial system allowed itself to be used and manipulated in such an obviously malicious and groundless manner.
First I thought about the woman's meeting in Leeds, when the police were waiting and arrested women who had travelled there from across the country to speak out about the threat that self ID posed to women and children. The police man in charge had obviously decided that uppity women would not be allowed to speak on his patch (where women in Holbeck are supposed to use their mouths to serve men, not to challenge them). All the women wrongfully arrested and held in police cells across Leeds were released once the meeting had dispersed, and no charges were brought.
Then I thought of the horrible case were a straight woman got the police and court system to prosecute Miranda Yardley. Miranda went through hell in the run up to the trial, and had to spend a lot of money on a legal defence team. The woman behind the accusations, a Mermaids stalwart and influencer, tried to get the judge to grant her full anonymity, and was incoherent in her accusations. The judge castigated all concerned in allowing the baseless case to come to trial, but Miranda still had to live with the scars of being put through that Kafkaesque process.
Kate Scottow was taken away from her traumatised children and left in a police cell for hours without sanitary protection after being accused of being rude to a horrible man on twitter. She was originally found guilty of the crime of telling the truth without sugar coating it, and had to take her case to appeal to clear her name and regain her reputation.
Maya lost her job and was publicly shamed by a tribunal judge who decreed that her belief in the immutability of biological sex was 'not worthy of respect in democratic society'. She had to take her case to a higher court in order for that biased and incorrect judgement to be overturned.
Now Ceri in Northern Ireland is being tormented, at the instigation of the same spiteful man who persuaded the Scottish police to persecute Marion.
Decent people are being forced to divert funds that could be used to support women's groups, the LGB alliance and the Lesbian and Gay News media website, to help protect innocent people being targeted by malicious people using the police and prosecution system as their enforcers.
Instead of fighting to fundraise for each individual case we need some kind of fighting fund that is available for anyone being targeted by these spiteful monsters. That way, when a case gets dropped, the money raised would go back into the pot and be available. And once all the battles have been won, and the police and legal system has been set free from the institutional capture currently manipulating them, the fund could be used to support women's legal rights in other ways.
Meanwhile, I really want there to be consequences for those who raise malicious accusations and use the police to bully people who refuse to bow to their oppressive demands and over entitled expectations.