"While filming outside the venue, the activist approached Linehan and asked: "Why do you think it is acceptable to call teenagers domestic terrorists?" The transgender activist told the court that Linehan had called them a "sissy porn-watching scumbag", a "groomer" and a "disgusting incel", with the complainant responding "you're the incel, you're divorced". A video played to the court appeared to show Linehan grabbing the complainant's phone."
""I was first approached by Tarquin when I arrived at the venue and I was subject to a form of harassment with Tarquin approaching me and filming me at close quarters. " This typically involved placing a phone immediately in front of someone's face only a few inches away and filming them while trying to provoke a reaction. People often try to block the phone and Tarquin treats that as a game."
Graham Linehan, a 57-year-old Irish comedy writer, faces trial at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of harassing trans woman Sophia Brooks. District Judge Briony Clarke said the prosecution will address the complainant by their affirmed gender name while noting the defendant's position that the complainant is male. Linehan and the activist met outside the Battle of Ideas conference on October 19. The activist filmed outside the venue and questioned Linehan about comments calling teenagers domestic terrorists. The activist alleges Linehan used multiple insulting terms and a video appeared to show Linehan grabbing the complainant's phone. Linehan previously posted about someone called "Tarquin," described by the prosecutor as a derogatory term, and said in a police statement that Tarquin approached and filmed him at close quarters, placing a phone inches from a face to provoke a reaction.
Read at Irish Independent
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