Graham Linehan arrested on arrival at Heathrow Part 3

[IDareSay]

These threads are currently being used to follow the case that is taking place at Westminster Magistrate's Court over the 4th and 5th September, but will also be following the subsequent fallout of Graham's arrest at Heathrow on his return to the UK for this court case earlier this week.

He is currently on trial for alleged harassment of a trans identified male and criminal damage to the man's phone. The charges stem from a series of events in October 2024 at Battle of Ideas.

Part 1 here

Part 2 here

Graham's account of the arrest here

You can support his Substack here

Free Speech Union are running a fundraiser to support a claim against the Met in reference to the Heathrow arrest. Just search FSU and Graham Linehan fundraiser and it should be easy to find. Currently reached 93% of its target.

Most of the mainstream media have reported on the case, but none have covered it as well as Nick Wallis. Follow him on X for live posting from the court.
You can support Nick here (posted this morning Friday 5th September):

"I am deeply grateful to everyone who has seen fit to bung me the cost of a coffee, a pint or even a bloody London pint since I found out I was able to come back today. If you think you can afford to make a small donation, there’s more info here:"

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It's an art, clearly!

Btw, I'm on crutches too, right now - sympathy. They take far more strength than you'd think, don't they?

... he really is - he's almost like a cipher - a twitter avatar floating around. I wanted the Met to be aware of him. Also I reported a credible death threat from FW and nothing was done about it and every time I do go to the police about these guys - nothing is done about it

DC the first time you used the word sociopath about SB was on 13 Oct when you tweet about him, FW and a link to the twtter spaces discussion
GL the "you will pay" one
DC - yes - why call him a sociopath
GL I'm told he sent pizzas to his victims at 4am

GL is coming across as much more credible than Tarquin 'alarmed and distressed' Brookes IMHO.

Thank you! I used to live tweet conferences on other subjects. I can’t live tweet feminist conferences or join TT (though I would love to) because my anonymity is too important. I can’t even show up at court to support people. 😩

This is part of my feminist activism. A big thanks to the MN Feminism community that I have this opportunity.

ETA commiserations on your need for crutches too. My upper body strength is at least improving.

[P interrupts on hearsay - DC says it's about GL state of mind - we're not saying it happened]

GL we sent a 400 page file to the police - they arrested him for 1 day and said NFA

[DC takes him to a photo
GL can't find it
DC describes more - GL gives up "Oh just tell me Sarah - I'll believe you".
He finds it. Its a GL tweet calling SB, SJB, and FW "scumbag grooming homophobic sociopathic sadists"]

DC Without talking about criminality...
GL that's hard - there's so much of it
DC Scumbag?
GL I don't think there's anything lower than a man who bullies women
DC homophobic?
GL lesbians with penises etc
DC sociopathic?
GL they love this - you saw on the video - they...

Well deserved thanks from me to you MyrtleLion.

... want to see me punished. Me being here is part of that process. It's almost irrelevant if they get convicted.
DC sadists?
DL talks about the relentlessness of the activists, publishing his address as soon as he upset them, targeting his wife etc etc

Placemarking - going back to read thread now

The process is the punishment. As with Sandie Peggie et al. Hes not wrong.

A note for those who may believe I’m at the Magistrates Court.

All posts in italics are from Nick Wallis’ Twitter feed. I’m on my sofa with my leg elevated, so couldn’t be there in any case

If I post, it’s in plain text and is commentary, not reportage. (I say what I think, Nick posts a summary of what is said in court).

I hope this is clear.

[We got to 19 Oct 2024 and the Battle of Ideas]
DC it was over two days
GL yep
DC were you there both days
GL yes
DC did you see him on the second day
GL no he'd achieved what he wanted to achieve

DC you call him a psycho and a psycho posh kid and say you walked him out
GL we should have reported him for harassment - not taking him to the cops - we asked the copper to talk to him for a while so SB doesn't follow us

I'm glad he's literally getting his day in court. He's finally got a public platform that the media ( hopefully ) won't be able to ignore.

DC see this list of sock accounts
GL yes
DC why tweet them
GL to warn people - he can try to use these accounts to win peoples' trust
DC takes him to Kate Harris video - in which GL says he likes to touch people
GL that's bad wording - I meant he gets close in peoples faces

No need for Graham to parrot the ‘alarmed & distressed’ claim put forward by Tarquin. You can hear the genuine exasperation & fatigue of it all in what he says.

DC are you saying he touches people
GL no he's very clever he never does that
DC what about Julie Bindel's tweet where you reply saying you're quite proud of grabbing his phone
GL he was using it as a weapon - trying to make people uneasy and frightened and worried about...

... where those photos would end up.
DC where you reply to someone saying knock his bollocks in you say he's already got someone prosecuted for that - were you inciting to violence.
GL no - the opposite - I just stupidly failed to take my own advice.

GL this had been going on all day. I had people telling me oh Tarquin's saying this about you, Robbie Travers showed me a boombox SB had put under my car at the same time he showed me a picture of my wife's house which he had taken.
[talking about taking his phone out...

I hate these men. Domestic terrorists is bang on.

... to film SB because he knew SB was filming and doesn't like being filmed. Said stupid things, but says his adrenaline always shoots up when he comes into contact with these people because they're so... nasty]

DC what was your plan after the BoI
GL I wanted to get out get to the after party and get on with my life
DC when did you see him when you came out -
GL quite soon, tried to stay with the people I was close to but he came towards me - we had an interaction [2nd vid?]

and I thought oh it's over - then he came back [3rd vid - i instinctively grabbed it I put it behind my back - he looked furious so I threw it across the road and said "there's your fucking phone"
[DC goes back to unpick this]
DC did you think he wanted a reasonable discussion

GL no their mantra is literally no debate [reveals: "I once actually had a secret meeting with Stonewall where they tried to persuade me men were women, women were men and I just couldn't buy it"]

KJK has said SB phoned her repeatedly on Christmas Day and he and/or his mates has harassed her for years.

She said she has a recording of him saying he wants to terrify her and use her children.

DC going back to the phone throwing incident - could you have moved away?
GL what was I going to do - run away
DC why grab his phone -
GL to stop him
DC why not take his phone
GL because that would be theft
DC why not give it back
GL that would seem like surrender

Keeping my fingers crossed that Glinner can slip in that SB usually uses a DSLR so would have expected a photo of the damaged phone.

Was that before or after that Brooks man said he wished acid had been thrown in KJK’s face instead of soup?

Why on earth are the police not putting someone like that behind bars, away from threatening women and children?