Mark Latham’s homophobic tweet whipped up ‘frenzy’ of abuse towards Alex Greenwich, defamation trial told
Independent MP received voicemails telling him to kill himself and emails labelling him an ‘abomination of nature’, NSW court hears
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Independent MP Alex Greenwich was subjected to a level of abuse he had never experienced before, including vitriolic voicemails telling him to kill himself, following a homophobic tweet posted by Mark Latham, a court has heard.
On the final day of the federal court defamation trial, Greenwich’s barrister, Matthew Collins KC, played several voicemails left on the Sydney MP’s office answering machine last year, including messages telling him to jump off a cliff.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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