Graham Linehan arrested on arrival at Heathrow Part 4

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These threads have mostly been used to follow the case that has taken place at Westminster Magistrate's Court over the 4th and 5th September, (and will continue on the 29th October), but were created to follow the fallout of Graham's arrest at Heathrow on his return to the UK for this court case last week, and what is allegedly a conspiracy of TRAs to intimidate and harass a number of people, including Graham, with the alleged support of various police services.

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
Part 3 here
Graham's account of the arrest here
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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. At the time of posting it has reached 64% of its stretch target.
The FSU have managed to get the bail condition that @Glinner must not post on X removed, so he is now freely posting on there again.

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 again on 29th October.
You can support Nick here (posted Friday 5th September):
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Thank you for the link @possomblossom . What on earth has happened to policing in this country?

Barbra has sung like the proverbial canary, and LegalGengar has hit his £30k target.

Thats great. He does a good job exposing grifters.

Have also subscribed to Nick Wallis’ newsletter.

I thought that too. Surely both she and the police knew that trying to fit her up as a bitter ex wouldn't fly if taken further, so I just took it to be another bit of low-level intimidation.

Another example of the process being the punishment.

The police are captured.

Lots of them are not very intelligent and/or not very educated.

They think women are beneath them, their instinct is to not believe them.

Remember when Ian Watkins was arrested? His ex girlfriend (Joanne Mjadzelics) had gone to the police 5 times over 4 years. Then they arrested her for possession of indecent images of children, the photos she took to the police as evidence against Watkins.

In court they painted her as a sex worker and a spurned ex who was jealous. See any pattern?

How do we get a review of what is happening with these cases? It looks like ex-cops have way too much capability to use the police to enforce even the most batshit accusations.

I suspect it’s because they know the inner workings of the system and what levers to pull/buzzwords to use so they can ensure their complaint gets escalated, but there really needs to be internal safeguards against that sort of malicious manipulation.

They probably know where a few skeletons are buried too.

I was going to say that surely these things are easy to disprove which would then make them look really bad. But actually, I'm assuming that half the time they're not that easy and they get away with it

Harry Miller's written another article for the Critic

How my Critic article got me in trouble with the police | Harry Miller | The Critic Magazine https://share.google/OsGCTlEsXczJrcGcw

I'm glad he's still got his sense of humour.

Thanks for that: is the "bombing of a bar in Colorado in which Suella Braverman played the part of Ulrike Meinhof to my Andreas Baader" bit true, do you happen to know? Because if it's true, that is straightforward "little green van with square wheels" territory.

He's very funny but that is fucking insane.

Watson seemed to have several twitter accounts. Before Elon bought it and restricted access to the app. I'd occasionally look at Fair Cop's tweets and responses. One I remember, Peppercorn, was all over it. Literally dozens everytime I looked. Taking screenshots would have been a full time job. I'd have liked to have seen some links in the article but, assuming they haven't been deleted, I thinking wading through the dross to find them would be difficult and depressing.

That this was happening while he was employed as a copper begars belief. Although I'm faintly impressed by his work ethic.

What a dangerous bloke this Watson chappie is.

Has anyone made a diagram of all the people Watson was harassing via police and court proceedings? Either in person or via his proxies? The Glinner case really has opened a huge can of worms…. I don’t know the British term but presumably a class action might be on the cards?

Helen Joyce has apparently been reported to the police for her article describing the harassment she has had from Watson.

I am getting a little confused with all the definitions here

Are either 'misgendering' or 'dead naming' actually criminal offences?

It's because they fall into a very broad "harassment" category under UK law related to communications offences.

See (1) and (2):

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127

They are claimed to be "hate speech" by the people who are "literally killed" by them, and hate speech (depending on how captured a given copper has been) may be deemed to be a hate crime, which is criminal.

Nope.

The defence is correctly sexing, and if using a name you don't like is harassment then there's a lot of claims coming down the line for every Andy, Liz and Penny who hate their names being shortened, let alone the Gazzas, Tones and Shitheads sick of their nicknames.

I can feel a series of mistakes coming on...

I'd not heard of this organisation

https://archive.ph/tII9L

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/18/university-of-leicester-rural-racism-countryside/

You'd think they'd be interested in Watson and his ilk, they seem to be frothing with hate.

Indeed.

Helen Joyce's purpose of the article was because 'it was in the public interest' to know what was happening. Her argument was that GC women were being targetted by an individual and he was using the police and the court system to be vexatious. Meanwhile she was experiencing systematic harassment and the police did nothing. Helen, perhaps unlike others, has used moderate language and hasn't taken the bait. She has simply raised the point that men can't become women - as is her right within law. She was being terrorised to try to silence her.

An 'in the public interest' argument is effectively a whistleblowing one. This can suspend other legal issues, if the argument is regarded as a valid one.

The fact that she's just been reported to the police for saying this, and it was covered by a major newspaper - fairly well would sew up the idea that yes she has a legitimate 'in the public interest' argument.

In being reported, yet again, its proving the point she made all along.

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