Pink News does not know how to journalism.
Woman ordered to pay compensation over ‘horrific’ transphobic messages
Under that is a generic photo of a woman of – yes! – grandmotherish age (cue taken from Jolyon Maugham was it?) poking daintily at a phone, with a potted plant by her side.
A woman in Scotland has been ordered to pay compensation after admitting sending a series of “horrific” transphobic messages to a trans woman.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear, how horrific. Like what, for instance?
Lyndsey Peebles, 67, pleaded guilty to sending messages of a “grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing character” between 29 September and 20 October last year.
Court papers said the messages concerned the victim’s gender and were sent to cause distress, with the charge aggravated by prejudice relating to transgender identity, as reported by The National.
Yes ok we get it; examples please?
Appearing at Greenock Sheriff Court for sentencing this week, Peebles was told by Sheriff James Varney that, in a social work report, she had indicated she “did not think the individual could have been hurt by the comments”, remarks he described as “horrific”.
Her solicitor said Peebles’ judgement had been “clouded” by “serious issues” at the time, which she had since addressed, adding that she was “truly ashamed” and had “never been in any form of bother before”.
Sheriff Varney told her: “Be under no illusion, this is a hate crime you have pled guilty to,” adding that the comments had “no place in society”.
And then in the last paragraph we get the details of her sentence.
See the problem?
No substance at all. Nothing. A blank. Lots of horror-shouting, with zero particulars.
Is this how Pink News usually does journalism?
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