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
You can support his Substack here
Or buy him a coffee 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. 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):
"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:"
https://store29806256.company.site

If the TR supporter said "If a Muslim man is in a Jewish shul and won't leave when repeatedly asked to, then punch them in the balls", I would be fine with that.

The majority of trans women are having a wee. Not brandishing a knife though.

I fully agree that women should be allowed to have their own spaces. But suggestions of kicking people in the balls are not ok. They are actually doing the TRAs work for them.

@StrongLikeMamma As I said I dont agree with Graham. However a man - usually larger and therefore physically intimidating to many women - refusing to leave a womens space can be seen as threatening. A decent person knowing someone feels threatened would leave.

I agree. I don’t believe in violence but if a man was refusing to leave I would probably do what I could to escape. Not convinced that it is worth risking my own safety if the person’s behaviour escalated.

I have to add, as a child, my friend and I encountered a man in the ladies public loos at our park. The park warden called the police. It seems not that long ago it was seen as totally inappropriate for a man to go into women’s loos, now some seem to see it as their right!

The Equality Act 2010 has been clarified. Transwomen - who are male - should wee in the mens or unisex spaces.

The decent transwomen will follow the law.

It is not transphobic to expect people to follow the law of the land.

Take the trans bit out of this though, if a man (because as the SC, and reality, confirms that is all they are) refuses to leave a woman only space, despite being asked nicely, then less nicely. I can envision a scenario where punching his balls might be called for.

The majority of trans women are having a wee. Not brandishing a knife though.

My first thought was there’s not that much difference between a man in the women’s toilets holding a knife or holding his penis.

JudeyJudey
My first thought was there’s not that much difference between a man in the women’s toilets holding a knife or holding his penis.

Yes; both have legitimate uses, both can be used as offensive weapons.

And both are in the wrong place for the legitimate use.

Some news for @Glinner

https://archive.ph/65R22

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/16/judge-throws-out-graham-linehan-bail-conditions-posts/

Hopefully he's already up to date with this.

The judge seems to have his head screwed on right

District judge Michael Snow said: “The phrase not to contact ‘victims’ is a loaded term – nothing proved to date.
“In any event who are the victims? There is reference to one individual who is offended. It’s a type of offence where anyone, anyone from the trans community could take offence.
“So it is meaningless as a prohibition. Similarly interference with investigation is meaningless in its own right, but more importantly interfering in an investigation is a criminal offence.

He's also rather scathing about the bobby involved.

Can't get that archive link to work.

Good that the Judge has his head screwed on.

Perhaps this one will work?

https://archive.is/65R22

It has thanks very much. Those comments from the Judge re the Police Officer(s) were indeed scathing, one can only hope that the Police everywhere damn well take note and actually fucking change their practices.

Ah, the good old Met.

I'm pleasantly surprised by how well the judiciary in general have stood up on this. I don't think I'd have been so optimistic a few years back, but it does seem like at last, a 'some adults in the room' moment.

I have just seen this post. Muslim people are most welcome to visit synagogues, and Judaism and Islam are not in opposition each to the other. Please don't invent or propagate religious discord; I'm sure there are better examples to illustrate your point.

@anyolddinosaur

Would you suggest it was racist if... anyone, saw a Muslim man outside a synagogue with a knife to call the cops?

Again, I think it's unhelpful to propagate stereotypes about Muslim people being violent at synagogues. Please can we avoid this?

I didn't know that the copper hadn't bothered to attend the court hearing, that's very bad form. When I was 17, a group of us were walking home after closing time and a mass brawl erupted, we ran into the arms of waiting Police and 4 of us were arrested for drunk and disorderly.

I pleaded not guilty and the magistrate called for the Police witness, who couldn't be found, so I was found not guilty.

Jesus Christ, i couldn’t have a lower opinion of the police.

I was cautioned as a teenagr for an accident I had on a train. I wonder if they would have taken it to court if I had refused it.

So they could find five armed officers to wait for his arrival at Heathrow but none to turn up in court to justify bail conditions

Seems even handed - nothing to see here, move along please

@MyAmpleSheep As usual our TRA visitors want to make out that dislike of a man being in the wrong place is transphobic and racist. The point is that sometimes a person in the wrong place needs to be responded to in a violent way because their behaviour has indicated they are a risk. The degree of violence depends on the perceived risk. So the police were right to shoot the man with the knife to protect themselves and other people and then to shoot to kill when it appeared the man was trying to detonate a bomb.

It's a specific example of something recently in the news. You propagate stereotypes by suggesting it is more than that.

The judge was also critical of the police officer in the case for failing to attend court, saying: “The officer has been given notice, indicated he will attend or another officer will attend, he has not done so.
“No communications as far as I know has been received. I am satisfied that having had notice, by failing to attend he has indicated a reluctance to defend these conditions.”

Does him not showing up require the sanction of his bosses I wonder. Are they all complicit in him not showing up.

And is it because, finally, you'd actually have a name??

The transes on BlueHairSky are not happy about this. Poor Lynsay originally got all excited when people were donating to Glinner's legal fees (I think), saying that everyone who donated was "interfering with the investigation" and he was going to get them. And obvs that's not a thing now 😆

Sad times

https://bsky.app/profile/mimmymum.bsky.social/post/3m3dsep2xhc25

Pleased to see that there's a judge out there with good sense. Obviously to anyone with an ounce of sense, the bail conditions were ludicrous. In particular the use of the word "victims" when there aren't any is outstandingly stupid.

Could I also point out, while I'm at it, that the phrase "punch him in the balls" was clearly a joke? Men are taller than women, so a woman would be at the right level to punch rather than kick. Apart from which, the use of the word "balls" draws attention to the fact that the so-called trans woman is actually a man. Glinner wasn't actually advocating violence.