MR JUSTICE WARBY Approved Judgment Monroe v Hopkins [2017] EWHC 433 (QB) “@PennyRed thinks this is OK. Burn her passport, bulk buy her lube & make her a woman of ISIS”. This was RT’d 135 times. (5) At 10.33pm Ms Hopkins tweeted again, with a photograph of the war memorial and a hyperlink to @PennyRed’s homepage: “if @PennyRed was my daughter, she would be out tonight scrubbing this clean with her tongue for what she has said.” This was RT’d 529 times. 15. On Sunday 10 May 2015 the mainstream news media reported on Ms Penny’s tweets, and Ms Hopkins’ denunciation of Ms Penny: (1) Metro reported under the headline “Katie Hopkins: Woman who agreed with memorial graffiti ‘should be bought lube and made woman of Isis’” (2) The Daily Star published a piece headed, “‘Send her to be raped by ISIS': Gobby Hopkins' horror tweet to left-wing writer” (3) The Independent published an article headed “Katie Hopkins trounces Laurie Penny in battle of offensiveness over anti-Tory graffiti, suggests she should be ‘made a woman of Isis’” 16. On Monday 11 May 2015 the MailOnline published a piece about Ms Penny’s “I don’t have a problem …” tweet. The article was headed “Sneers and bile of hate-filled left: Protesters desecrate memorial to those willing to die in the fight to protect democracy.” It gave a slightly different version of the tweet, which included not only the sentence beginning “I don’t have a problem…” but also the words, “What's disgusting is that some people are more worried about a war memorial than the destruction of the welfare state.” This was a compression of two separate tweets by Ms Penny. The article cited the composite tweet as evidence that Ms Penny was a member of the “Leftist commentariat” who had been “lining up to spout hatred and ally themselves to the rioters” at the anti-austerity march. 17. On 18 May 2015:(1) At 7.20pm Ms Hopkins posted the first tweet of which Ms Monroe complains (“The First Tweet”). It was in these words: “@MsJackMonroe scrawled on any memorials recently? Vandalised the memory of those who fought for your freedom. Grandma got any more medals?” (2) At 7.33pm Ms Monroe tweeted in these terms: “I have NEVER ‘scrawled on a memorial’. Brother in the RAF. Dad was a Para in the Falklands. You’re a piece of shit.” (With a screenshot to the First Tweet) (3) Ms Monroe tweeted again at 7.36pm: “I’m asking you nicely to please delete this lie Katie, and if I have to ask again it will be through my lawyer.” (With a link to the First Tweet) (4) At 8.14pm Ms Monroe tweeted again, this time using Ms Hopkins’ Twitter handle: “Dear @KTHopkins, public apology +£5k to migrant rescue & I won’t sue. It’ll be cheaper for you and v. satisfying for me.”

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