Transcript of Jenni Swayne's police interview

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If anyone needs cheering up, a transcript of Jenni's interview. grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/jenni-swaynes-magnificent-police?r=1fqwi5&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

I know it was horrible for Jenni but the transcript made me laugh (and also cringe for the police officer)

She’s awesome 👏 I’d love to have a cup of tea and some ghee with her 😂

Brilliant - kudos to Jenni (and Dwain)!

Jenni you're a legend. Someone needs to adapt this into a screenplay, it's comedy gold.

This interview is like a scene from the Third Policeman by Flann O Brien. In which a Policeman is turning into his bicycle through some molecular process of osmosis. I agree it could make a Graham Lenihan sketch.

Does Dwain have other talents? I'd love to hear his Welsh satnav voice .

Jenni I love you

That was a really educational read, I now know about holy ghee, uses for plumbing sealant and how to manage a police interview under caution. Excellent!

I'm also reminded of the interrogation scene in Wilt by Tom Sharpe, where Wilt is interviewed on suspicion of murdering his wife.

Meat one, Mr. Kidney ?

The very same!

It's years since I read it, but at the time I had a friend who, like Wilt, used to teach liberal studies to vocational students in an FE college, and he confirmed its truth to life.

There really is no need for comedians anymore, just pack up and go home the Welsh police have stolen all your gigs 😆

What was the outcome in the end?

Is there a word to describe the experience of feeling shame and embarrassment on behalf of someone else?
Because I'm currently feeling it for Gwent Police and Stella Creasey.
Transmortification maybe?

"There shouldn’t be men in domestic violence hostels with vulnerable women and their kids, there shouldn’t be men in rape crisis houses with vulnerable women. There shouldn’t be men in our fucking bogs and there shouldn’t be men in our sports."

Amen to that. What a legend. May she long continue to ride Dwain into battle!

Unsurprisingly, they dropped it. www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/20069683.gwent-police-drop-jennifer-swayne-newport-stickers-case/

The police dropped the case. Unsurprinsingly. But this is what happens when you allow yourself to become the law enforcement arm of stonewall

Complete admiration for Jenni, so articulate, honest and patient, especially at 3am in the bloody morning.

Not to detract from it being a stressful and shocking experience for her, but I can’t get over the ghee/tea/saag bit 😂

More power to your elbow, Jenni.

What the actual fuck?

So she caused 'distress' by stickering but they didn't think interviewing then releasing her in the middle of the night with no way to get home is 'distressing'

i know which of the two I'd find more distressing - by some margin.

Bullying. That's what it is.

Why would they interview her in the middle of the night? Sounds very abusive to me.

She's brilliant and obviously did so well in the circumstances, but I wish when the police officer was talking about someone being offended she'd said 'the only way someone would be offended by my sticker is if they're a misogynist and hate women having anything for themselves or saying no'.

Because the hate is from the other side.

Possibly also

'do you investigate every single case where someone's been offended? Because I'm offended that the police force has paid thousands of pounds of taxpayers money to lobby group like Stonewall - can you investigate that - I'm very, very offended'.

Clearly abusive and bullying.

In every case of a woman being interviewed for having an opinion about women's rights the police have behaved in a way that is 100% more abusive and hateful than whatever the woman did. E.g. Marion Millar and Kate Scottow.

Women can't trust the police.

Sorry you went through this Jenni but thank you for allowing us to read your amazingness 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Very entertaining read but more seriously, being interviewed in the night and released with no means of getting home is proof that the process is intended to be part of the punishment.

So sorry you've went through this Jenn

Whoops Jenni

"Like saag?" has just destroyed me!

It's tea? No, butter. Like spinach?