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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Oh that is delicious 👏

Sock puppets😂

Well we know who most of the muppets are, but not Elmo. Not yet anyway.

Which is strange. IANAL, but I would have thought it wouldn't be possible to be a pseudonymous complainant in this kind of case. It doesn't exactly meet the threshold for witness protection, and if Tarquin is the age he claims to be then he can't possibly have a GRC.

Draw a diagram of characters around SBs immediate circle and how that connects onwards.

The sunlight is interesting

Hayden whines that his convictions are spent, so anyone pointing them out is "smearing" him. Apart from anything else, are sex offence perpetrated against children EVER spent? Because he's definitely done time for that.

And the sunlight keeps giving

Back to dubious police decision making:

https://x.com/DrRebeccaTidy/status/1964986652947812853?t=WK0sjYEnsE2LxUgv77ae1A&s=19

Rebecca Tidy AT drrebeccatidy
Last week I was interviewed under caution on suspicion of harassing an ex-Devon + Cornwall Police sergeant.

All I did was post 4 accurate, professional tweets stating he was arrested + charged with harassing a woman.

It raises big questions about free speech + public interest

I didn’t tag this former police sergeant.

I blocked him on X years ago.

I simply reported the facts.

Newquay police called it a “voluntary” interview. In reality, they said I’d be arrested if I didn’t go.

I’m tweeting all of the “evidence” against me to show how easy it is to be arrested for factual, accurate tweets right now.

Evidence #1

I’m a journalist + share police news so people find me on X + DM me stories, which I then sell.

That’s how my job works. It isn’t harassment.

Evidence #2

There is no law in England + Wales requiring people to keep arrests a secret.

Evidence #3

These two tweets date back to 2023.

The other woman has since deleted her X account, but it was a polite conversation.

The fourth piece of evidence is a social media photo of my daughter + me at a popular beach in Newquay near my sister’s house.

I hadn’t mentioned or tagged the ex-sergeant.

Apparently, this could amount to harassment, as he lives nearby + says he felt “fearful + distressed”.

This official document from Devon + Cornwall Police outlines the four pieces of evidence against me, so you don’t have to simply take my word for it.

For full context, I’ve also shared the statement I gave in my interview.

This is how easy it is to be accused of a crime in England right now.

I was just doing my job.

If that’s a crime, there’s no freedom of speech in the UK.

FYI, we had the investigation moved from Newquay to Plymouth. The officers + sergeant in Plymouth were polite + kind.

My solicitor was told that the instruction to interview me – and arrest me if I don’t attend – came from a very senior officer.

Reaction to JKRowling 'come and get me if you think your hard enough' tweet

Caroline Farrow is another of those 'less than perfect victims'

Might be spent depending on the operative law at the time.

But the sensible option in any case would be to just say "it was a long time ago, I'm very sorry and I've kept my nose clean ever since."

Jesus, that's awful 😡

How is she a 'less than perfect victim'? He is a nonce. A convicted one. And he clearly is malevolent.

It may be spent BUT if you have a teen - who was under 18 at the time of an incident that's caused so many ructions and there's concern about him being vexatious and Glinner raised concern about him grooming under oath and there's been concern raised online about whether he has been groomed himself.

As this tweet states
Kate Commonsense AT Kate Commonsense
I asked Thomas if he had any concerns about a vulnerable teen associating with three 50+ males ,1. A convicted sex offender,2.A male whom posts pornographic images of himself in his sex dungeon,3.A discharged, disgraced police officer but he limited replies, which is telling.

Remember SB under oath said he was recently involved with Trans Kids Deserve Better and asked them to turn up at his court case to support him. That's the Cricket Gate gang.

And they in turn are associated with Sarah Jane Baker who has a conviction for torture and a conviction for attempted murder and did 'a DIY op'.

There are safeguarding concerns. It becomes a wider public interest matter where Haydens prior history does raise eyebrows.

JKRowling's original tweet in the thread featuring the tweet from Thomas (who has now hidden his tweets) which discussed this point.

Thomas said these concerns were homophobic and a lot of other people piled in before JKR saying the age gap between SB and the others and their past and their behaviour - and how it looks like extremist grooming. (Id been following the conversation before she waded in as it had already gone viral). He was throwing a hissy fit complaining about being silenced (which he wasn't) because people were disagreeing with him.

The public interest here is potential radicalisation by several much older men, who seem to have been helping him make vexatious and false claims in a bit to further their cause (SB was filming for Freda's blog).

Further to that you have the claims of harassment.

JKRowling went to a restaurant to have a meal with Suzanne Moore. It got vandalised the week after because of it's association with JKR. It also got bombed with lots of 1* Google reviews. When I went to look over the weekend, some of these still stood, including one from an account in the name Sophia Brooks. JKR is still friendly with the owner as he's helped her with Lumos in the past.

She also aware of some of the harassment that's gone on in the past with police doing fuck all and she's unimpressed at the abuse she regularly gets that the police do nothing about yet will arrest Glinner and a Former Cop for.

The network and connections that link back to harassment in multiple forms and individuals who are repeatedly trying to abuse the system is a public interest question and if they go after her, she'll damn well put that question straight out there in the full glare of the media.

She's put them into check them in some ways, and asked them for their next move.

The only place left to go is

1. back down,
2. do something else stupid which proves a lot of these concerns
3. or take her head on.

They are unlikely to do option 1)

So it's popcorn time.

She reacted when baited so gave ammunition for Hayden to take her to court.

She doesn't back down and she's got right wing politics.

She's a bit gobby (to say the least). Like Linehan she says things that perhaps aren't measured.

Hence she doesn't always get sympathy from GC circles and makes for an easy figure to vilify for TRAs.

JKR is trying to get people to draw the dots.

She has always said there's an issue with safeguarding and harassment on this subject but no one has believed how fucked up it is.

She and her friends as well as acquaintances like Linehan have been on the recieving end of that and have a mountain of stuff that show there's a case to be followed up by a proper police investigation but they haven't and are more bothered by their box ticking and Stonewall guidance.

I'm waiting for the press to pick up on this and blow it wide open. DM in particular have had beef with SH.

Tarquin's involvement with TKDB (that would be Jolyon's daughter and her posh mates) should definitely set some alarm bells off with parents, if for no other reason than his close relationship with these geezers.

Banksy.

Probably in reference to Palestine Action but also equally captures the mood in the context of the Linehan case too.

It's the perception that matters.

Well, good. It's "gobby" women who don't back down, who have helped us get to where we are, and get a SC judgement.

I was somewhat pissed off when the National Front stole my national flag; I was more than a little peeved when racists preempted the flag of St George; but I am utterly infuriated that these shits have tainted the rainbow. Damn them all to an appropriate hell. One they don't identify with at all, by choice.

(I did slightly hope that the NHS might manage to redeem it, during Covid, but now they too are playing stupid games.)

I don't want to comment on any particular posts (some might understand why) but just checking in to say, completely unrelatedly, what a glorious evening (meaning the weather, of course).

Love to all Terven 💚

I learned from Alexei Sayles book , Stalin Ate My Homework, that the rainbow 🌈 was originally the flag of the Woodcraft Folk . A sort of left wing version of the Scouts. Perhaps they could take it back now that nobody is using it ....

More stupid.

Unfortunately the Woodcraft Folk are pretty TRA-heavy these days.

I am watching these threads with great interest. As I am on pre-charge bail, I cannot say anything else at the moment (but I am seeking to get my unlawful bail conditions overturned, through the courts if necessary).

Good luck @LegalGengar !
@OhBuggerandArse I didn't know the Woodcraft Folk still existed tbh. The Scouts were captured a while back I read...

Welcome @LegalGengar