Graham Linehan’s conviction for damaging transgender activist’s phone overturned
https://news.sky.com/story/graham-linehans-conviction-for-damaging-transgender-activists-mobile-phone-overturned-13538863
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Graham Linehan’s conviction for damaging transgender activist’s phone overturned
https://news.sky.com/story/graham-linehans-conviction-for-damaging-transgender-activists-mobile-phone-overturned-13538863
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God I wish I had any hope of ever leaving this country
So there wasn’t evidence that the damage to the phone was caused by Linehan’s actions, then why was this brought to court?
It’s important to note this isn’t a statement by the court on the morality of the action nor does it dispute that the phone was either grabbed or knocked out of her hand, as the BBC article notes.
The problem that’s lead to this being overturned is that there is no contemporary evidence on the state of the phone.
They cannot establish that it was damaged as a result of his actions because it could have been damaged beforehand *or* by somebody else in the 19 days between the incident being reported and damage to the phone being separately reported and confirmed.
Still a sad sad man, but hay now he has more time to join lesbian dating sites to out trans people despite the sites not having issues with trans people using them.
Well yeah obviously, we know the judiciary position on trans people
Interesting they decided to completely ignore the *video of the incident* in this judgement then.
Open season on trans people I guess.
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I do wonder if there’s any extent of hatred or abuse towards transgender people that is actually illegal anymore. It is very interesting to see the Governments correct response to the antisemitic incident in Golders Green this week, and how they’re committing to protect Jewish communities, compared to the response that has occurred since the transphobic murder of Brianna Ghey a few years ago, and how they’ve actively tried to force trans people out of public life and how they’re enforcing conversion therapy on trans children since. It’s pretty fucking grim.
So basically he got off because they couldn’t prove that the phone broke during what he did or that it broke during the 19 days before she took it to the Apple shop.
She should sue him in small claims court for it, there you only need a preponderance of evidence that he damaged the phone.
“transgender activist”
17-year-old girl, a teenager at the time, Graham Linehan is a 55-year-old man who spends all day posting slurs and insults at random trans people he can find online and physically assaulted this girl. The degree of coverage for his actions is truly absurd. It’s like one of the few things all society agrees you don’t do, unless you’re a favoured court jester bigot to the press and the subject of your assault is trans, I suppose.
Why was this man allowed to assault a kid and get away with it?
When you’re becoming a regular on GB news, maybe you’ve made a few bad decisions.
Sending the message that crime is OK as long as the victim is trans.