I don't particularly like the guy, but I also think should stuff like this really be getting dragged through our crown courts, especially in the current climate of a massive backlog of cases awaiting trial. Instead of getting rid of Juries maybe they should be kicking this nonsense out of the court room. The judge had made it clear in his summing up that there were private cases against him, one for which had already cost him a £100k. If this was two nobodies arguing on twitter no one would give a ****, the police certainly wouldn't be rocking up to protect us, but some how tv celebrities become protected by the law. It's not nice what he did and it needed to stop, but he was clearly testing the limit of free speech with his insults, but it's clear in this country free speech no longer exists, and you've got less chance of being locked up if you are a nonce. Yet now all he has to do is name drop the forbidded on X and he activates his prison sentence, the world has gone mad. I'm sure there are lots of women in society that would love similar protection, that they don't get btw.
Maybe this is the sort of crime that should be dealt with without a Jury as long as the judge was not a follower or hater, please tick one of these boxes judge