I wanted to write to you personally to thank you for your support, your love, your prayers and of course, your donations to help me hold the police to account following my unlawful arrest.

When I wrote the initial Twitter thread, I had absolutely no idea that my story would make headlines across the world. To be honest, I didn’t think that anyone would be sympathetic because there’s no smoke without fire, right? Surely the police don’t go around arresting innocent mothers in the middle of cooking dinner for their children without a good reason?! I thought that people would think that I must have done something wrong.

The truth is that as the police began to question me after spending hours in the cell, it was clear that they had made a grievous mistake and been misled.

I was interrogated over posts made on a controversial internet message board made by other people. The police had absolutely no evidence that I was behind these posts, which is why they decided to seize all my electronic devices on a fishing trip. 

This is what is so worrying. The police took the word of a notorious transgender activist that I was responsible for a supposedly offensive post on the internet and, without any evidence, seized all my electronic equipment and my children’s Ipads to see whether or not it was true.

If it could happen to me, a normal wife and mother, then it could happen to you! All it takes is for someone who doesn’t like you very much or an aggressive LGBT activist to make an accusation to the police, and it could be you under arrest for something you haven’t done!

The police had absolutely no reason to arrest me and admitted that they only did so in order to seize my electronic equipment. Had they made the most preliminary of enquiries, such as, for example, phoning me up or asking me to come in for an interview, they would have discovered that it was physically impossible for me to have posted this material as posts were made on a Sunday morning at the same time as I was playing the church organ for Sunday Mass.

What the police ought to have done, if they thought that it was necessary to seize my devices, was to obtain a warrant from the magistrates' court. This would have saved my children the ordeal of seeing their home invaded by the police and their mother arrested.

The reason that the police did not do this is that no magistrate would have granted them this power, thanks to the trivial nature of the alleged offence. An arrest was the only way that the police could obtain my devices in order to search them.

The whole situation was crazy. One minute I was cooking dinner for my family; the next, I had my jewellery removed, was patted down, and had my socks searched for narcotics before being thrown into a cell. All because of insulting posts that somebody else made on the internet!

This is why, with your help, I am suing Surrey police. They must be held accountable for their actions, and legal action is the only way to ensure that they do not do this again. In addition, my family deserves compensation for the trauma.

Where are we now?

It could be months before I learn whether or not I am to be charged and I have been informed that it could take as long as a year to have my devices returned.

As I am sure you can imagine, in this day and age, when so many of us have our daily lives stored in our phones, their seizure has caused my family incredible disruption. I have lost access to many contacts and vital information. My daughter, who was excluded from her Catholic school in the Summer because of her Autistic Spectrum condition and is currently being educated at home, had her Ipad seized, which has caused her enormous distress and impacted upon her ability to learn. She has taken to hiding her collection of soft toys under the bed because she is worried that the police may return and take more of her things away.

My young son needed some extra support in school because he was troubled by intrusive thoughts that the police may take Mummy away again and she may not return. My other older children are similarly anxious and wary. They have watched their mother been pursued by the same transgender activist for over three and a half years and just want this situation to end.

Since my arrest, I have also been subject to renewed aggression across all social media and one account in particular, has posted over 1,000 negative comments about me in the course of the past four weeks. The account has attempted to attack me, my family, my husband’s parish and of course, CitizenGO - basically anyone who they perceive as providing support. It is clear what they are attempting to do, and the situation is causing considerable alarm.

The legal situation

With your help, I am determined to end this, once and for all.

In addition to using the police force as a tool of harassment, the transgender activist also has filed a third civil claim against me. We have responded to this with a counter-claim and also an application to have his claim against me struck out. We have also applied for an extended civil restraining order in order to stop him from bringing any more claims against me.

With your help, I am also taking action to stop the activist’s co-conspirators who, together with him, have been responsible for the harassment my family has endured over the past few years. They also need to be restrained.

In addition, we are holding Surrey police accountable and suing them for wrongful arrest. The police need to be taught an important lesson that they cannot go around arresting innocent people, detaining them in front of their children, for trivial offences they have not committed, on the say-so of a notorious transgender activist, with an extensive criminal record for amongst other things, serial dishonesty.

We know why this has happened. It is because the police force are so in thrall to the LGBT lobby, that Christian women like me are seen as a soft target. They need to learn that behaviour like this, will cost them dearly.

I won’t lie to you, I am going through a tough time at the moment, with both the threat of criminal charges hanging over me and a civil court case against an activist who plays dirty legal tricks, and a group of people who are actively stalking my family and making us feel continually unsafe.

Your support, your donations and your kind messages and prayers are carrying me through this tough time. It gives me strength to know that far more people are supporting me and on my side than who are against me.

I am not just fighting this battle to protect my family, its also to stop any other person who dares to stand up for the truth about male and female from being targeted by this malicious activist, and also, even more importantly, to stop people from being arrested by an over-zealous police, who are acting like LGBT militia.