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Case against Louise Distras collapses

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RoyalCorgi · 29/12/2025 10:40

Louise Distras has been through the most shocking experience of being harassed and hounded by trans activists - and then prosecuted for being the harasser.

Fortunately, the case fell apart.

x.com/LouiseDistras/status/2005564950391955689

For those not on Twitter, this is what she says:

Finally dragged myself out of this Christmas flu pit to tell you that on 9 December, I walked out of Leeds Crown Court NOT GUILTY. The case collapsed before it even got to trial. The CPS stood up, admitted they had zero evidence, and told the judge there wasn’t a cat in hell’s chance of any jury convicting me.

I’d been facing up to five years in prison for allegedly breaching an expired (and dodgy AF) non-molestation order. My “crime”? Speaking publicly about the abuse and stalking I’d suffered from a male trans activist at the Let Women Speak event in Leeds and in an X Spaces chat back in 2023.

If you want the backstory on what led to this prosecution (the stalking, the dodgy orders, the timeline), I wrote it all out on my blog (link in bio).

After years of stress, cancelled gigs, lost income, and the music industry turning its back on me…something finally went right.

I’m still trying to get my head around the sheer insanity of it all. I’ve got a lot more to say when I’m ready, but right now I just needed you to know the good news.

It’s early days but I’ve already started the wheels turning on suing West Yorkshire Police too - watch this space.

Thankyou for having my back through all the crap. Happy New Year you absolute legends. Louise XX

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Ohyoudodoyou · 29/12/2025 10:47

So glad to read this as I followed all of this on X. She’s had a rough time, women have definitely borne the brunt of this. I see men speaking out and yes they get some back lash but jeez, what women get, damage to rep, work lost, death/rape threats. I remember Billy Bragg leading a pile on her too, the creep.

PriOn1 · 29/12/2025 10:47

I’m really pleased to hear it went well, though it’s another very obvious case of the process being in the punishment as well as a horrendous demonstration of the overreach transactivists have in terms of power over the police and judicial system.

rubyslippers · 29/12/2025 10:48

I’m glad she’s suing the police
but it’s been monumentally distressing for her
she’s a very brave woman - thanks to her and the others who refuse to back down

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RoyalCorgi · 29/12/2025 10:52

I'm also glad she's suing the police. West Yorkshire Police have been one of the worst offenders in this madness, though they do have competition (Surrey, Gwent and the Met all spring to mind - I'm sure there are others).

It's terrifying that something like this can happen. We've seen trans activists repeatedly bully, harass and terrorise women - and then use the criminal law against us to accuse us of harassing them. The fact that the police actually take this seriously suggests they are either very stupid, or very misogynistic or, most probably, both.

Why aren't the police ever held to account for the way they misuse the law to hound and bully women?

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TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 29/12/2025 11:10

I'm glad the case against her collapsed, from the weight of it's sheer stupidity no doubt, I hope she sues the CPS as well because they would have been the one's who decided to take this to court. It shouldn't have taken them until they got to court to realise they had 'zero evidence'.

Hope she takes sometime for herself, to recover from the super flu and then in 2026, if she's willing, take legal action against them all, including the person who was behind this legal attack on her.

Conxis · 29/12/2025 11:13

The case collapsed before it even got to trial. The CPS stood up, admitted they had zero evidence, and told the judge there wasn’t a cat in hell’s chance of any jury convicting me.

Which begs the question why the CPS brought the case in the first place! Isn’t it their job to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed???

MrsTerryPratchett · 29/12/2025 11:16

Conxis · 29/12/2025 11:13

The case collapsed before it even got to trial. The CPS stood up, admitted they had zero evidence, and told the judge there wasn’t a cat in hell’s chance of any jury convicting me.

Which begs the question why the CPS brought the case in the first place! Isn’t it their job to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed???

They’re quite happy not to pursue cases against male sex offenders because they can’t win.

Seems that the process being the punishment only applies to women.

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RoyalCorgi · 29/12/2025 11:38

Conxis · 29/12/2025 11:13

The case collapsed before it even got to trial. The CPS stood up, admitted they had zero evidence, and told the judge there wasn’t a cat in hell’s chance of any jury convicting me.

Which begs the question why the CPS brought the case in the first place! Isn’t it their job to decide whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed???

You've got to wonder, haven't you? All those people in the CPS who must have considered the evidence (I'm assuming there's more than one, but what do I know) and then waited until the day of the trial to decide Oh, actually, there isn't enough evidence to prosecute. How does that even work? It suggests that the CPS is an utterly shambolic organisation.

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EdithStourton · 29/12/2025 12:02

So we have a woman hounded and more public money wasted.
She should sue, if she can, the CPS as well as WYP.

summervile · 29/12/2025 12:06

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heathspeedwell · 29/12/2025 12:14

I thought this paragraph from her blog was worth highlighting: "It’s infuriating that taxpayers’ money is being wasted on dragging a single line from my Let Women Speak speech through the courts, while police and court time is pulled away from helping women and children facing real horrors like domestic abuse, violence, rape, or grooming gangs. This messed-up focus leaves so many women without the protection they need, showing how the system seems to care more about silencing us than saving lives. The fact that legal abuse is becoming normal to target women’s voices while calls to hurt us go ignored, is a massive injustice."

moto748e · 29/12/2025 12:24

Sad to say, it just makes you wonder how many more Louise Distrases there are out there.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 29/12/2025 12:44

It’s batshit. As pp said, it’s all very well for the CPS to stand up after wasting everyone s time and money and say there isn’t a case. It was their choice to do so, it could have been binned much much earlier. Well done Louise and i hope you take WYP to the cleaners, and the CPS too if you have the energy. Arseholes all.

Justme56 · 29/12/2025 12:45

I gather from an earlier post the person involved was someone LD had ceased contact with in 2020 for their abusive and threatening behaviour. Their behaviour escalated when she started talking about sex and gender in 2023. Whether this person was a TRA before or not is not explicit but it seems like they found her speaking out as something they could use to drum up further abuse towards her. That’s my impression.

fromorbit · 29/12/2025 12:53

Great news. Sue them all!

MrsOvertonsWindow · 29/12/2025 13:20

Ereshkigalangcleg · 29/12/2025 12:44

It’s batshit. As pp said, it’s all very well for the CPS to stand up after wasting everyone s time and money and say there isn’t a case. It was their choice to do so, it could have been binned much much earlier. Well done Louise and i hope you take WYP to the cleaners, and the CPS too if you have the energy. Arseholes all.

The CPS are deeply trans captured and have been for many years. They beclowned themselves many years ago by producing toxic "trans guidelines" for schools which were anti safeguarding and openly promoted coercive control of girls (to the extent they tried to weigh in on the behaviour of girls in toilets and insist that any reluctance to befriend any "trans child" was transphobia.

The guidelines were swiftly withdrawn in the face of a potential judicial review but I'd put money on it that the authors still work in the CPS and no doubt continue to influence prosecution policy to the detriment of women and girls.

Another institution that needs a review into their failure to adopt the Nolan Principles of public life along with a deep dive into the computers of some of their staff.

Helleofabore · 29/12/2025 13:25

Thanks royalcorgi. I am glad that the case won’t continue. How fucked up that she had to wait for court to know this.

Shedmistress · 29/12/2025 13:29

But no women are actually harmed by this ideology apparently...

MarieDeGournay · 29/12/2025 13:50

MrsOvertonsWindow · 29/12/2025 13:40

It's always interesting to see who claims to be influencing practice at the CPS:

https://www.cps.gov.uk/stories/pride-supporting-the-lgbt-community

I'm not going to watch that video, it's enough to see who is speaking - having that person as 'CPS Speak Out Champion', would have a chilling effect on staff raising issues in a confidential way - for instance if the issue was that TW are not W and 'LGBT+' is meaningless because the interests of the 'T+' part are not only not the same as the LGB part, but inimical to it.
Try telling that to the Speak Out Champion, and see how you get on...

Congratulations to Louise, but yet again, the punishment is the process.
Wishing you strong and well, after all you've been put through, LouiseFlowers

cramptramp · 29/12/2025 14:01

Great news. I’ve been following it from the start but her tweets have fallen off my algorithm for some reason.

SidewaysOtter · 29/12/2025 14:21

I’d not heard of this case but, while I'm glad for Louise that the case has been dropped, it should never have come anywhere near a court. Process as punishment, as usual, and the police/CPS should be ashamed.

SoOpenMindedBrainsFellOut · 29/12/2025 16:04

I always felt there was a lack of transparency surrounding her cases. Like the first one I donated to in family court. Again with this second one. Wasn't it because she mentioned them and she wasn't supposed to? Can anyone help me out? Loads of people were lost also, it wasn't just me.

Shedmistress · 29/12/2025 17:13

SoOpenMindedBrainsFellOut · 29/12/2025 16:04

I always felt there was a lack of transparency surrounding her cases. Like the first one I donated to in family court. Again with this second one. Wasn't it because she mentioned them and she wasn't supposed to? Can anyone help me out? Loads of people were lost also, it wasn't just me.

It's in her blog just why there was transparency about the situation. It's because she was facing 5 years in jail for talking about it.