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Acting Detective Sergeant Thomas Wells told the court that the phone incident was initially recorded as a robbery, later changed to criminal damage and confirmed the police received a call from Lynsay Watson regarding online harassment (remember, this is a different case to the whole "punch them in the balls" Heathrow arrest tweet which was almost certainly also reported by Watson). An online report was also made by a man called Michelle Louise Burrows regarding an interaction at the Battle of Ideas.
The police closed the case and it was reopened after Brooks threatened to "complain to prof standards, IOPC and seek Judicial Review" on 14th November 2024. Wells said it is police policy to treat people as whatever sex they say they are and that he should have described Linehan as gender critical rather than having "strong anti-transgender views" in his write-up.
The defence made a submission of no case to answer, but the judge disagreed and did not strike out the case.
The defence tried to introduce an additional piece of video evidence, which Wallis reports was this video of Brooks and Freda Wallace at a 2023 Let Women Speak event playing a recording of Sarah Jane (Alan) Baker saying "if you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face". The judge viewed the footage and decided it was not admissible as it falls into the category of bad character evidence.
Graham was cross examined and came across as rambling and irrelevant at times because of course he can't make things easy for himself. There was confusion as the prosecutor tried to talk about the claimant using feminine pronouns while Glinner referred to him as male. Glinner was at least steadfast about how unreasonable he believed Brooks was being, that Brooks was following him and others at the Battle of Ideas and other women's events and he maintained that throwing the phone was an instinctive reaction and he didn't mean to damage it.
Good example of Glinner sperging which was probably not relevant but will be interesting to those interested in the gender wars. He told his defense counsel:
"I once actually had a secret meeting with Stonewall where they tried to persuade me men were women, women were men and I just couldn't buy it"
Mainstream media coverage slightly better than on the first day but they have missed a lot of relevant info. They are under no obligation not to report the Lynsay Watson stuff or Brooks' "acid attack" tweets. Case in point:
Archive of BBC report, 4:34pm UTC
Archive of BBC report, 11:49pm UTC
You can see where mainstream coverage falls short as the average Twitter "lol divorced" guy's take seems to be that Glinner "assaulted a minor" (did it happen on the sidewalk, Yank?), is paranoid and creepy. There was a convicted sex offender at the court supporting the claimant, at least on the first day! This is the UK - you should need a license to call Glinner divorced.
Glinner is now tweeting freely and the Free Speech Union says staying off Twitter has been dropped as a bail condition.