Overview
- Linehan, 57, denies harassing Sophia Brooks online between 11–27 October last year and denies criminal damage over a 19 October confrontation outside the Battle of Ideas event.
- Prosecutors say he posted about Brooks relentlessly and accept it is not disputed he seized and threw her phone during the encounter.
- LGB Alliance co-founder Kate Harris, journalist Julie Bindel and campaigner Fiona McAnena testified that Brooks filmed attendees at close range and acted in a menacing way.
- The court adopted a use-of-language protocol with the prosecution using the complainant’s affirmed gender while the defence used male pronouns.
- District Judge Briony Clarke told Westminster Magistrates’ Court she will deliver judgment on 25 November.