To Westminster magistrates’ court, where Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan appeared today to face charges of harassment and criminal damage against a teenage trans activist. The court heard today that the comedian smashed the phone of a transgender activist, 18-year-old Sophia Brooks, and made targeted ‘vindictive’ social media posts between 11-27 October 2024.

The comedy writer has been accused of damaging a £369 phone belonging to Brooks at a Westminster conference on 19 October last year. Brooks’s lawyer Julia Faure Walker said today that the Irish comedian had began to post about the trans activist ‘relentlessly’ after falsely accusing Brooks of disrupting the LGB Alliance conference last year by releasing insects into the building. Faure Walker claimed Linehan had posted photos of

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