Graham Linehan arrested on arrival at Heathrow Part 2

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First thread here

Started thread 2 as this seems destined to run for some time...

P told the court she found GL using male pronouns "rude" - quite measured. Yes she did say several times she was "alarmed and distressed", but there's no reason to believe she isn't telling the truth when she said that.

P as to criminal damage - she changed her cover that day and didn't see any damage - it's the sort of thing she would notice. GL threw the phone onto a road. It is likely there would be damage. There is no reason to...

... disbelieve her account. When SB challenged GL that was not a crime - nor is recording it - given the context. So there is no crime that GL was attempting to prevent. It was not to prevent crime but an act in anger and indicative of his dislike to the complainant.

Me neither. I think if someone had repeatedly harassed people to the extent tarquin did and then the phone was shoved in my face I may have reacted similarly.

- it tallies with his tweet about being proud of throwing the phone across the road.

[P ends]

DC - just on that last point - GL's note on being proud was in response to Julie Bindel's point about SB being a bellend and harassing women all day.

DC it is falacious to say that a consideration of the available defences cannot be considered by the court now. Finally what I would observe about the last recording is that there is a point when what might be described as provocative becomes harassment.

The trouble with this argument is that it gives free rein to every Tarquin up and down the land to harass anyone they want as long as the Tarquin has a smaller social media following.

J am going to rise for a few minutes to gather my thoughts. also need a comfort break. We will resume at 12.15pm

[court rises]

Thread 3

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5404988-graham-linehan-arrested-on-arrival-at-heathrow-part-3

Please continue to fill this one before moving over if you would be so kind 😉

Boy am I ready for a coffee!

about SB being a bellend

Bet SV loved having the opportunity to say that! 😂

Thank you!

Off for a "comfort break" 😆now.

Amazing that he conveniently remembers changing his phone cover that very same day but forgets so much else that arguably should be much more memorable

Judge is off for a fag break

- I will help anyway I can and can send a draft text for an witness statement...

Draft text for witness statement? You get to adjust your witness statement before it is formally recorded?

And that he only got to the crickets incident venue at 17:00.

Seems to have a very convenient memory, given he answered 'I don't remember' to anything awkward.

"Lynsay Watson" is such a slime. I'm so glad he can't hide behind anonymity any more, or deny being the SEEN Police accounts.

If the law is changed then that means everyone would be free to make threats including those who aren't on your side?

Summary of this morning’s tweets from Nick Wallis.

https://t.co/B7Sgw0xsqr

When you're not officially anything to do with the case and you haven't actually been asked for one?! 🙄

Yes. If I were to decide to harass, let's take a name at random, Michael Gove, him being famous and me being unfamous would not get me off the hook, or allow me to claim harassment if Gove tweeted "who is this weirdo shoving a phone in my face"

I'd assumed he meant draft a statement for Tarquin to amend, fitting how the police want a statement to look format wise, and in this case probably content wise. Which is atrocious as any statement should be wholly written by Tarquin.

True.

The prosecution also mentions glinners age but not tarquins. You’d think if he was actually under 18 that would have been mentioned here?

I will repost this at the top of the next thread.

Fuck Off

LW basically said he was going to write Tarquin's statement for him. Was he even there? Not that it matters.

Hadn’t heard of this Burrows character until this morning. A quick google search reveals a few interesting things but none very surprising

Somewhere upthread, it seems Glinner thought SB was at uni studying comp sci. There aren’t many under 18s doing that.