Glinner: let's hire a private detective

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He's launched a crowdfund to hire a proper detective to look into the small group of men who abuse the law and the police to silence and harass women and campaigners. Stated aim is to get evidence that's of sufficient standard to use in court.

The interesting thing to me is that the initial target was £3k and after about 12 hours, he's already raised £4k.

This might be fun😁

Down with this sort of thing is it Lettiy ?

I hope he can nail the vexatious reporters and litigators. One of whom, is alleged to use all the tricks in the book to litigate against people and never pays costs when he loses, even when the Court directs him to pay the defendant’s costs.

When last I looked, women had free will.

There is more than one of those, I think.

Yes, but I was thinking of the flying one. Notorious and needs stopping.

This

Given that the police are institutionally misogynist and racist a lot of people stand to benefit from uncovering corruption.

NB think glinner is one of the few people to post under his own name on MN

I’ve sometimes wondered why we feminists don’t behave as badly as the TRAs. I mean, the rape and doxxing threats I got on Twitter at the height of the madness about 6 years ago were pretty horrible if I had taken them seriously.

But I like to think we have ethics and high standards and we’re grown ups, so do t call the police when we have hurt feelings.

Maybe though, we should. I mean, there’d be enough of us with receipts.

I don’t know, who benefits from this? The concern is fair but the way to solve that is through FOIs, which are boring to do and make no money. It seems “off” to me, there are crowdunders for cases live, if I have money to donate it’ll go on those. Plenty of women do PI work for free on Twitter, £4K is a lot of money.

If we @Glinner him*, he sometimes pops up.

This could be quite the jape.

*only once and no mirror needed.

Don't donate money then. No-one is making you.

FOIs are pointless when the police "can't find" a person they supposedly want to ask questions of. If a private detective can find that person, and the police can (legally) be told where that person lives, is that not a good thing?

There is more than one of those, I think.
I think there's a little network, but I'm not sure how many of them are sock accounts. Pretty sure some are, as that's what they keep accusing women of. Sounds like Graham had a good go at collecting info so whoever takes this on will have a nice big dossier to start them off.

Well, if Glinner does pop here I just wanted to say how much I admire and respect him for standing up for women's rights when the personal cost to him has been so great. Thank you.

And the IT Crowd has given my shy and introverted autistic teen so many hours of sheer sheer joy for which i thank him also.

❤

Yes, I thought that. If the huge dossier has thrown up a few important leads, for example...

Crickets on TRA Reddit, btw. Interesting.

Where do I sign.

This seems like a half-baked idea to be honest. Isn't it already known who's behind all this harassment?

I wonder if the same unhappy little band are behind the reporting of the Darlington nurses to their regulator the NMC?

Their high-profile employment tribunal is set to be heard later this month. But the nurses now face professional misconduct investigations after four complaints were made by members of the public to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/12/nhs-nurses-trans-colleague-changing-room-row-misconduct/

(Drop into archive.ph to read it behind the paywall.)

Here's an archive link

https://archive.ph/eyKiT

Tbh I'm surprised there's only four complaints. Perhaps even tras are finding this a bit hard to swallow or possibly they didn't realise they could do this.

There is a lot about the case, and related matters, one would like better information about.

For me the big questions are what kind of influence disgraced ex-cop Watson & convicted sex offender Halliday have with various police forces, and how Halliday (whose ability to sue & lose repeatedly depends on his declaring a low income & getting help with fees) funds his lifestyle, with Club Class trips to Cape Town.

I’m not sure that announcing you’re going to do it is a better idea than just doing it & then announcing the findings, mind you.

Although if it shits up the vile bastards that's a significant fringe benefit IMO.

Yes. But the point here is to gather actionable evidence against them. Glinner wants to turn the tables and not before time frankly. They've got away with too much for too long

When the police are colluding with criminals, covering up crimes, hiding evidence, for example, one has to consider alternative strategies. I have personal experience of this, as have others.

This is Graham Linehan’s accompanying message circulating on email, i.e. already in the public domain, which explains his point of view further. (I hope it’s ok to quote it all? If not, feel free to report.) I’m not going to bold it all because it’s quite long and too much bold does my nut in:
……………………………………….
“Here’s where we are: for years, I’ve been reporting a group of men to the police. They’ve harassed dozens of people, committed fraud, and in some cases been convicted of serious crimes including sexual assault on a minor. When I report the harassment and death threats they send my way, nothing happens. When others report them, nothing happens.

“But here’s what does happen: the police investigate us for talking about them.
The grotesque nature of this collaboration would be fascinating from a distance. Unfortunately, I’m not at a distance, and it’s been going on for years.

“So I’ve decided to do something that feels wonderfully ridiculous and also completely necessary: hire a proper private detective. Someone who actually investigates things. Novel concept, I know.

“I’m delighted to say that our piece on Melody Dawson has resulted in members of his family getting in touch. And that’s what we can do without a private detective. Think what will happen if we get professionals on the case.

“Picture it: a licensed investigator with a proper case file, following leads from Sussex to Capetown, gathering evidence the authorities keep pretending doesn’t exist. We’ll compile everything, present it to independent observers and every major outlet we can find.

“What Your Money Gets

• A licensed investigator who actually does the job
• Document searches, surveillance, evidence gathering
• Properly documented findings that can be used legally or journalistically
• The satisfaction of watching bad people get very nervous

“I know you’re sick of the Cancel Tax. I’m sick of it too. But this one’s different. This one might produce results that are deeply satisfying no matter where you are in the fight. This is detective work. And when it’s done, we’ll have something the authorities can’t ignore—even if they’d very much like to.
The goal looks high because this isn’t some bloke following someone to Tesco. This is a proper investigation spanning multiple jurisdictions. We’re not just after a few bad actors. We want to get all of them.

“We need experienced professionals, proper equipment, and sometimes even the ability to work across borders. Anything less won’t be enough.”

It is going to take a lot to unravel the corruption in the police. They make the post office look like amateurs.

£5,762 now. And yes I donate to some crowdfunders under a fake, male, name. So not sorry TRAs you'll never know how many donations are from men and how many from women pretending to be men. In honour of this thread my next donation may be as "Graham".

It is worth trying. With the increase in threats, vandalism and violence we need to take preemptive action which includes deep research and investigation.