Trans activist was 'angry & intrusive'

Linehan trial told complainant disrupted event

- BY JORDAN REYNOLDS, MATHILDE GRANDJEAN and MARGARET DAVIS

A TRANSGENDER activist “took pictures of people's faces” before a confrontation with Father Ted creator Graham Linehan, a court was told yesterday.

The 57-year-old Irish writer is accused of harassing trans woman Sophia Brooks and damaging her mobile phone outside the Battle of Ideas conference in Westminster, UK, on October 19 last year.

District Judge Briony Clarke said the Crown would address the complainant according to their “affirmed gender name”, while stating the defendant's position was that the “complainant is male”.

Katherine Harris, co-founder of LGB Alliance UK, told Westminster Magistrates’ Court she saw Ms Brooks stand up with a camera among attendees during a panel discussion.