Update on Tom Martin's hearing over "protestgate"

The following is from Tom Martin at Sexism Busters. I've decided to coin this incident "protestgate", since the authorities have involved themselves in an apparent attempt to at least obscure the truth if not try to side-step it, despite some honest officers changing their initial accounts. From Tom:

I just attended court, where unbelievably, the Crown Prosecution Service decided to proceed with the case, despite the fact that the police now admit, in their OWN statement, that I was indeed hit with the placard first - something they had all previously denied witnessing. The police statement falsely claims that I was aggressive and had my finger in the protesters' faces beforehand, when in fact, I stood at a safe distance with my thumb down, shouting "Stop sex-segregating" as the crowd streamed by.

The police statements were submitted to the court outside the time limit, and not signed, so my court-appointed lawyer is pushing to get their case against me for Criminal Damage thrown out on this technicality - an outcome I believe the police are secretly hoping for as well - to save them the blushes of a court case that will established they wrongfully and maliciously arrested me on a trumped up charge.

CCTV was found by the police, but it mysteriously did not show the incident - another cause of concern for my lawyer. Criminal Damage cannot be brought against a case of self-defence, as the prosecution have to prove I had malicious intent to break the sign, when in reality, I was responding to an assault, removing the assault weapon (it doesn't matter how violent the assault was - unwanted contact of any degree is assault.)

The case has been adjourned until December 15th, at 9.30am - the National tabloid press photographers and journalists were there having read the above press release - they interviewed me and were very supportive.

Please go to my twitter: @sexismbusters and retweet this article, and keep spreading the word about this outrageous and ongoing abuse campaign against me for standing up against the sex-segregating man-blaming victim-feminist throng.