Overview

• Linehan is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court accused of harassing 18-year-old Sophia Brooks on social media and causing criminal damage to her phone.
• Prosecutors presented a video that appeared to show Linehan grabbing Brooks’s phone during an October 2024 confrontation, with an Apple repair estimate of £369.
• The judge rejected a defense submission that there was no case to answer, allowing the prosecution to proceed.
• Separately, Linehan was arrested at Heathrow this week over other X posts and was bailed on the condition that he stop posting on the platform.
• Rolling Stone reported he appeared to violate that condition by replying to a post on X before deleting it, as public figures criticized police action and the Met commissioner urged restraint in social media investigations.