Online trolling | Trans worker sacked after branding free speech enthusiast 'woman beater'

A trans employee has been sacked after allegedly trolling a free speech campaigner, branding them a ‘nazi’ and ‘woman beater’ online.

Lynsay Watson sent a free speech campaigner, Harry Miller, over 1200 messages online over the course of 18 months, where she branded his campaign group Fair Cop as “domestic terrorists” for having views on gender identity that were “in direct contradiction to her own”.

On its website, Fair Cop describes itself as “a group of individuals who have come together over shared concerns about police attempts to criminalise people for expressing opinions that don’t contravene any laws.” Miller, a former officer in Humberside, was reportedly investigated after tweeting a gender critical poem.

Watson, a police officer, initially sent messages from her own personal account before being warned by a senior member of her team that she should troll anonymously because Miller, formerly in the force, had made a formal complaint to Leicestershire police.