Graham Linehan prosciolto dalle molestie ma colpevole di danni penali al telefono dell’attivista trans
https://news.sky.com/story/graham-linehan-cleared-of-harassment-but-guilty-of-criminal-damage-to-trans-activists-phone-13474812
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I do really have to wonder how the press and even the judge would be treating this should a 55-year-old trans woman have attacked a teenage cisgender girl in person and then filled social media with insults declaring her a paedophile in the same way as Linehan did?
Can’t see any universe where the headline wouldn’t be closer to “transgender woman found guilty of committing criminal damage against teenage girl’s phone”
I just skim read the BBC article, and completely out of the blue it ends with: [‘Ms Brooks, who was 18 at the time, is a trans woman who was born a biological male.’](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrj4520rrwo)
Is it BBC editorial policy to randomly describe the personal characterises of the victims of crimes, or is that reserved solely for trans people? Really feels like a ‘detail’ that was lumped on the end by the BBC to fulfil their transphobia quota.
Roll on the civil case, because the things he said may not be criminal but we can be pretty confident (given they wrongly alleged criminality) that they are defamatory.
Hope she gets the rights to Father Ted in the case, ‘cause then we can all enjoying it without funding this sad old man.
Grim. Harassing trans people is just straight up legal now.
> District Judge Briony Clarke…said she found Linehan was a “generally credible witness” and appeared to be “genuinely frank and honest”
Linehan claimed Sophia Brooks has been involved in “trans activism” since 2013. The prosecutor pointed out that she was 6 years old in 2013. He replied “So he says.” Sophia’s driving licence proved she is 18 years old. Linehan replied “If you can lie about your name and sex, you can lie about anything.”
> and that she was not satisfied his conduct amounted to harassment.
> Brooks told the court Linehan had called [her. article states “them”] a “sissy porn-watching scumbag”, a “groomer” and a “disgusting incel”, to which the complainant had responded: “You’re the incel, you’re divorced.”
> The judge said she was “not sure to the criminal standard” that Linehan had demonstrated hostility based on the complainant being transgender, and therefore this did not aggravate his offence.
> Linehan claimed his “life was made hell” by trans activists and accused Brooks, a trans woman, of being a “young soldier in the trans activist army”.
Edit: On the 10th of October this year, so while proceedings were still going on, PinkNews published an article about the suicide of a 17 year old trans girl over the waiting times for NHS healthcare being found to have been preventable by a coroner’s ruling. Graham Linehan quote tweeted this article with “Couldn’t you have cut his cock off sooner?” He later deleted it.
I do feel some pity for Linehan. He is clearly not a well man. A few weeks ago he harassed Victoria Coren Mitchel on X because there was a Trans woman on Only Connect. She asked him to leave her alone and he continued. Using the same ‘I have lost everything fighting for women’s rights’ while openly harassing a woman who has asked him to leave her alone. That complete lack of insight tells me he has lost his mind.
NOT excusing his actions.
Wherever you stand on trans issues, I find it awfully sad how it has consumed his life so much. Father Ted and Big Train were works of genius. To hear about him spending Christmas Day on twitter ranting rather than being with his family just makes me sad. Please don’t bother with ‘yeah but he’s a bigot’ etc. that isn’t my point.
I think Graham Linehan needs psychiatric help. He’s behaving so erratically and it’s pretty disgusting, but he seems to have completely fallen apart mentally. I find as a lesbian his comments about lesbians particularly weird, why is he trying to white knight for a community he is not in and has nothing to do with, when none of us asked him to. Hope the victim in this case is okay, it’s such a blow to realise the law isnt on your side, poor girl.
Graham Linehan’s brain needs to be studied by scientists when he passes.
We need to know how such a fucking batshit insane TERF brain even functions.
I do find it interesting that this hasn’t had the usual brigade of transphobes come in defending him.
Almost like they know that this is completely indefensible. Anyway, there’ll be another trial when he does this or something similar again. Eventually one of them will have a judge who doesn’t have TERF brainworms (and sees physically assualting a teenager and the libelling and harassing her both in and out of the courtroom as wrong) and something may actually happen.