The Daily Mail on the fall of Lynsay Watson:

A transgender activist who accused Father Ted co-writer Graham Linehan of harassment has been arrested outside court over a separate case. Former police officer Lynsay Watson was detained by officers near Manchester Civil Justice Centre, with pictures of the appearance outside court widely shared online.

Widely shared because Watson turns out not to be a harmless slender wisp of a girl.

Former PC Watson was sacked by Leicestershire Police for gross misconduct in 2023 after allegedly harassing a free speech campaigner and critic of gender ideology.

Watson appeared for an oral permissions hearing for judicial review of a Cambridgeshire Police decision not to prosecute Helen Joyce for misgendering another trans activist, Freda Wallace. Watson was arrested after the hearing on the basis of outstanding arrest warrants for online harassment.

The ex-police officer was previously accused of reporting Linehan to police over posts on X that prompted the writer’s arrest at Heathrow airport last September.

Linehan later had action against him dropped. He was convicted last November, in a different case, of criminal damage after throwing a phone belonging to 18-year-old Sophia Brooks, though [he] was cleared of harassment.

“Sophia” Brooks is that other persistent nuisance and pest.

Watson had posted on X under the account name ‘SEEN police OFFICIAL Open Public Network’ before this was suspended. A subsequent similar account on rival platform Bluesky also no longer exists.

Ah, that explains why I couldn’t find SEEN police the other day when the news broke.

Watson was sacked for gross misconduct by Leicestershire Constabulary in October 2023 after trolling another free speech campaigner online, branding him a woman beater and a Nazi.

Watson has also been behind a large number of legal challenges related to gender and trans rights, including against three police forces, British Transport Police Federation and the Ministry of Defence.

Watson sent former police officer Harry Miller more than 1,200 messages over an 18-month period, describing him as a fascist and a bigot and labelled his campaign group Fair Cop ‘domestic terrorists’. Ex-PC Watson targeted Mr Miller because his views about gender identity were ‘in direct contradiction to her own’ a police misconduct panel was told.

In the messages Watson made ‘factual assertions that Mr Miller was violent towards women’. The panel heard Watson initially sent messages as a police officer – prompting Mr Miller to complain to Leicestershire Police.

And so on. The charge sheet is long. Watson is not a nice man.