Mick Hartley

In Newcastle:

A woman who was molested as a child has told a court her life was destroyed by the abuser’s actions.

Newcastle Crown Court heard the woman was 13 when she was groped and feared she was going to be raped by Ryan Haley, a biological male who now identifies as a woman called Natalie Wolf, in the Washington area….

Wolf, 47 and from Byker in Newcastle, who had claimed to be the victim of a “conspiracy” and that jurors had been “hypnotised”, was found guilty of sexual activity with a child and jailed for three years and six months.

Then aged under 30, Wolf, who was referred to by female pronouns in court and has been held on remand at a men’s prison, groped the girl’s chest and tried to touch her groin, prosecutor Nicoleta Alistari said.

The woman, who told the court she had feared she was going to be raped, said she was speaking out “not just for me but for all the women and children sexually abused by men”.

Here’s the lovely Natalie, “referred to by female pronouns in court” – attempting, perhaps, to hypnotise the police photographer.

Don’t they feel a bit embarrassed, these courts – these fine legal minds – going through this charade? If he identified as Napoleon, would they refer to him as “his imperial majesty”?