Julie Bindel

 

4 March 2022

 

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @lizgreenlive: I have a date with @CliveMyrieBBC at 10 each evening. The team in #Kyiv for the BBC are outstanding. I fear for everyone in this conflict, for our future and stability and for so many displaced. Somehow, seeing Clive on camera ...

March 4th @ 5:05 pm |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @uracontra_: Last week I tweeted that the trending searches on Pornhub for "Ukrainian girls" had skyrocketed after Russia declared war against Ukraine. Me for @TheCriticMag on the reasons this happened, & why we cannot turn a blind eye to this ...

March 4th @ 5:40 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

Total sisterhood and solidarity with @RooneyRachel today and always. The way she has been treated by so many cowardly twats in publishing is shameful. We love you Rachel, and you will prevail xxx

March 4th @ 5:19 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @simonjedge: @bindelj “They describe themselves as ‘cis’ and hang around in Dalston drinking stout and declaring that trans women are women. But under all the faux progressiveness always lays the same entitled misogynist.”

March 4th @ 4:34 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: And if you’re Basingstoke or North Hampshire based, please do pick up a copy of this week’s Bas Gazette 📰 and read all about it in print. Special thanks to @sophie_journo @kimberleybarber for putting it all together. ...

March 4th @ 4:14 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: Appreciate this is a super long thread. If you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading! I’m always interested in hearing from people about their experiences working in the police or coming into contact with the police. My DMs are ...

March 4th @ 4:14 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: So what happens next? Justice Ellenbogen’s comments were clear - Mr Cooke had no reasonable expectation of privacy. This means the hearing was heard in private unnecessarily. It makes a girl wonder .. how many of these police ...

March 4th @ 4:14 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: He was found to have “systematically” abused his position to target vulnerable women, attending 999 calls and then essentially trying to pursue relationships with victims afterwards. https://t.co/5iuPnb...

March 4th @ 4:14 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: For the first time, we can now the officer’s name and details of his misconduct. Mr Terry Cooke worked for @HantsPolice for more than 20 years. He was celebrated by chief constable Olivia Pinkney for his efforts in the wake of ...

March 4th @ 4:14 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: And in an unusual move, the judge took the unusual step of ordering the ex-policeman to pay costs on an indemnity basis, meaning he’ll have to pay Newsquest’s legal fees. The @PFEW_HQ has said it is part-paying the costs.

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: But in a victory for open justice, the judge dismissed the officer’s application, finding he had “no reasonable expectation of privacy”. Justice Ellenbogen found that the he had also behaved “improperly” through his insistence of an ...

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: The officer again tried to apply for an anonymity order, claiming his name was of little relevance to the story and it was against his human rights to identify him.

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: But back to the court case. In January, after ten months, Newsquest came head to head with lawyers representing the Legally Qualified Chair and the sacked police officer at a hearing at the High Court.

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: And this is not a problem unique to Hampshire. There is a clear trend nationwide for affording corrupt police officers anonymity and shielding them from being held accountable. https://t.co/5PEVXT...

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: Just in October last year, a @hantspolice officer who bombarded a domestic violence victim was bizarrely granted lifelong anonymity at a tribunal before he was sacked from the force. https://t.co/t4GOK0...

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: For background, Hampshire Constabulary has quite a record when it comes to secret tribunals. A third of hearings have been held behind closed doors between 2018 and 2021. https://t.co/Il8D0K...

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: He was sacked the next day without notice after the misconduct panel found his abuse of trust and power was so serious, he could no longer work for the force. It would be nearly a month later that news of this anonymous officer’s ...

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: A combination of the above and the absence of intervention from Hants Police resulted in the officer’s name and misconduct being shielded from the public. https://t.co/RAUM5e...

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: Under Home Office guidelines, police forces are supposed to make arguments for these hearings to be heard openly and challenge private requests where necessary. Hampshire Police didn’t intervene. https://t.co/lC9Qwf...

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: The tribunal chair, Mr Hansen, granted the request without consulting the Independent Office for Police Conduct, against Home Office guidelines. The @IOPC_Help has criticised this as a “procedural irregularity”. ...

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @journokatie: Emails disclosed as evidence to the High Court showed the policeman’s lawyer had put forward a request the day before the tribunal for proceedings to be heard in private - NOT for an anonymity order. Two very different things! ...

March 4th @ 4:13 am |

Julie Bindel

27 posts today

RT @unherd: If men want to honour Sarah Everard, they should take a long hard look at the ‘feminism’ they’re supposedly espousing | @bindelj https://t.co/PvUF9N...

March 4th @ 2:52 am |